Claims of survivor automobiles can often be debunked by the tell-tale trail of an orbital sander, or yellowed plastic interior bits that belie the like-new condition of the exterior paint. Worse yet is a glaring tin-pot head of a modern grade zero hardware store bolt holding on a fender. Not so with this 460-cubic-inch V-8-powered […]
Back in the salad days of the Nineties dot-com boom, we eked out a living painting sets for television and movies. Tasks included making many new things look old, which included building a ship set inside a restored WWII-vintage Liberty ship. Why? Glossy new stuff looks phony on film, because glossy new stuff does not […]
Gooding and Company is claiming it made the biggest sale of the Scottsdale auction week with a 2006 Ferrari FXX Evoluzione that rung the bell at $2,090,000. The 860hp supercar is one of just 30 built and retailed new for north of $2 million. Its 6.3-liter V-12 is based on the engine used in the […]