Houston diary: roundup

You know you’ve had a good trip when a 1958 Aston-Martin DB Mark III drophead coupe is relegated to “leftover” status. But when you shoot 2,800 images, covering nine cars, an auction and a concours, it’ll happen.

This was a challenging midday shoot (in 90-plus degrees and high humidity, blech), but the car was sufficiently exquisite […]

BREAKING: Kruse on the block

While out of professional courtesy we’ve had an informal moratorium on reporting on the decline and fall of Kruse Auctions over the last two years, internally, we’ve had a Death Watch running. That clock hit zero hour on Wednesday, when Dean Kruse told the DeKalb Star the Kruse International name was for sale. “We have […]

Houston Diary, Day 2: Goldie lives

WWG Houston Classic tent.
After a hectic morning in Seabrook getting my auction cars wrapped up at WWG, I headed up to Taylor, near Austin, where Jeff Snyder of Jeff’s Resurrections has been helping me line up feature cars to shoot. Thrillingly, my Jaguar SS comparo is going to come together; he already had a ‘39 […]