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 […]

One difficult aspect of attending the Scottsdale auction bonanza, other than realizing you don’t have 1.7 million bucks to spend on a 1970 E-body Plymouth, is watching cars and trucks you would truly enjoy driving changing into hands other than your own. All is not lost. There are times when cars and trucks don’t sell […]