The top sale from Mecum’s recent Kansas City auction? A 1965 Corvette Convertible 396/425hp, four-speed with Bloomington Gold Benchmark status that changed hands for $188,000. The well-preserved Rally Red big-block was one of a total of six Corvettes among the top 10 highest sales reported during the two-day auction, March 11-12. Gross sales from the […]
While TA wrote last month about the Vinnylonglegs Vincent crossing the auction block in the Bonhams Stafford auction on April 24, that same auction will also feature a number of vintage cafe racers. Some of these names you may not recognize, but they have a few things in common. All are European-built, with road racing […]
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 […]