*  I sometimes drove Nick and Rachel to school in my 1961 Ferrari SWB. It had been in a cruch-up in Milan and the then owner took it to Neri and Bonaccini, who added GTB headlights, Lusso tail lights and rear glass. I have to admit to 6,250 rpms in top (142 mph) between Odessa and Midlands. Public Safety just grinned and waved. Lucky and Unwise. Don't do it.

I bought this Sprintcar after noticing it's silver soldered and brazed welds. I looked at the back of the frame and sure enough, there was an "AM" and a number starting with BT16 -----. It was a Brabham! Someone added all the cute stuff and..... Now it's again a BT-16.

Is this a Mini-Cooper?.....well....kinda. It's a steel Mini rear shell with a tilt fiberglass nose over a Legrand tube chassis with a Mazda 13b in the back seat driving through a Hewland Mk8. A wiggy ride!

 In 1990 I sold two wonderful specials to a very strange person with violent issues from Minnesota. The 1957 Kresmer Spl, patterned after the Mercedes W196 streamliner and the 1952 Nash Lancer. I hated selling them no matter what the profit involved. He and the cars seem to have disappeared. If anyone knows about their fate, please contact me.

An Allied-Cisitalia under restoration at our Long Beach shop in 1979. The graffiti on the wall tells part of the story. We were broken into six times by sledge hammers knocking holes in the back walls at night and small people or kids crawling in and handing out what they could pick up. How useless is a Singer head or Zepher transmission to a local gangstah? They stopped breaking in, but twice at opening time, stiffs were on the doorstep after shooting up an OD bought on the corner of L.B. blvd. We closed in 1985 feeling under constant threat from the corner gang.

Mistral-283 Chevy. Jowett tube frame. Badly in need of a wash.