With the Tojeiro predecessor and the Cobra successor(ssssss), it’s far too easy to skip over the A.C. Ace as just the car that Shelby stuck a V-8 in. In actuality, A.C. built some intriguing cars based on the tube-chassis, independently suspended platform, including this 1960 A.C. Aceca for sale on Hemmings.com with the A.C. (not […]

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 […]

From the high plains desk of our satellite office comes this perfectly aged 1948 Studebaker M5 pickup. A comic tragedy of the traditional hot rod phenomenon is when a new fabrication is faked up to look used. While this practice is fine for actual-size movie set versions of the Millennium Falcon, it simply doesn’t add […]