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John, I think I agree with you-but I have become a fan of Wayne Carini (Chasing Classic Cars) for the last year or so. He seems to know his business and be well respected. I have learned a lot from watching that show. Standards of top cars seem to be changing. I was working at Pebble Beach as a United Way volunteer (handing out programs etc,) the first year the Preservation Class was introduced. I could not see why it made any sense to ship an old Mercedes from Germany with half an inch of barn dirt on it! Why not at least wash it? I am seeing that change where now some people are saying if the car is clean and original it's better than restoration or bard dirt. In fact, I heard the comment made that many wonderful old cars were ruined in the last two decades by restoration to a level far beyond what the factory could do. Now, Wayne deals with a lot of multi-million dollar cars, and I have seen him consciously paint a Ferrari 275GTB4 (I think) a color other than the factory color (he painted it a gunmetal gray) and install a different color upholstery (cinnamon).Maybe it doesn't matter when you get to stratospheric prices, like the $27.5M 275GTB/4NART car. For that kind of money, I suppose the cost of restoring correct paint and upholstery colors is a fly speck! Probably like you, I think a non-factory standard color for a letter car is very noticeable and to my eyes, looks dead wrong. Mike Moore 300H factory colors all around :-)) On Mar 29, 2014, at 9:29 AM, Keith Boonstra <kboonstra@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: It does need some tweaking to be correct, but the main thing that strikes me is that no "investment grade" any car will be painted in a color it did not exit the factory in. The car looks gorgeous in black, but it will only be investment grade when it is returned to white. Keith Boonstra On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 11:14 AM, John L. Chesnutt <chesnutt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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