What I Remember Most Wasn’t Red…
What I Remember Most Wasn’t Red… Not every beautiful thing at the FCA Meet had a prancing horse on the hood. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ …
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What I Remember Most Wasn’t Red… Not every beautiful thing at the FCA Meet had a prancing horse on the hood. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ …
Read MoreThe Five Stages of Collector Car Grief Sometimes the hardest part of selling a collector car isn’t signing the paperwork… ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ …
Read MoreTwo Historic Landmarks, One Incredible Weekend Book launches, Art Deco architecture, concours elegance, and a weekend celebrating the history and artistry of the automobile. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ …
Read MoreLiberty Bells, Bald Eagles, and a 1959 Ferrari 410 Superamerica A Weekend Where Automotive Excellence Met an Incredible Cause ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ …
Read MoreMy 1990s Tour of the Panoz Factory Before the legacy, aluminum roadsters were handcrafted in the north Georgia mountains. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ …
Read MoreMy N.I.R.V.A.N.A Documentation Scale for Collector Cars View this email in your browser If you missed my daily updates from the Ferrari Annual Meet, you can see them here. My “N.I.R.V.A.N.A.” Documentation Scale Welcome to my totally made up N.I.R.V.A.N.A. scale that ranks the importance of the documentation that comes with a collector car. This…
Read MoreSports Car Market Review by Benjamin Shahrabani Collector car books tend to fall into two camps: deeply technical references or glossy celebrations of blue-chip machinery. This book, now available for preorder, takes a different approach. Rather than trying to impress seasoned collectors, it focuses on something more fundamental: explaining why the hobby matters and how newcomers…
Read MoreChevy Novas are the Brussels Sprouts of My Youth My mom was a fantastic cook by 1980s standards—let’s start with that. If it hadn’t been for the technological limitations, the cultural norms of the time, and the picky eating habits of her children, she could have been a legendary chef. Her culinary creativity was stifled…
Read MoreTeddy Roosevelt famously stated that “Comparison is the thief of joy.” If my 10th grade AP history teacher, Ms. Brewster, hadn’t taught me better, I would have sworn he’d driven a 911. His statement perfectly summed up my Porsche experience. Let me explain… Fun fact about Ms. Brewster, she taught my dad history as…
Read MoreDon’t Cry For Me The problems I’m about to share with you warrant numerous eye rolls. They are real and they affect you. Thankfully, we can overcome them together!:) As a consultant for RM Sotheby’s, I am often asked to help clients consign cars to one of their world-class auctions such as Scottsdale which is…
Read MoreBreaking The Glass Ceiling The two women broke the glass ceiling in unexpected ways. They were car thieves and crackheads. This was 1991. A Teenager’s Eternal Selfishness Siblings are often cursed with a directive to share stuff. In my case, it was to share a 1986 Buick Century Limited with my older sister while we…
Read MoreI Can Find Stuff I’ve been doing it my whole life. Brightly colored Easter eggs, loose change in the couch, the sunglasses on my forehead, nothing escapes me. That is especially true of cars. If I get a whiff of something special hidden away for decades, I will find it. A Shelby Cobra that was wrecked…
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