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By Pete Vack and John C. Lutsch
No, unfortunately not owned by Nuvolari. But this 10.5 x 6 inch men’s jewelry box has been with the Vack family for a while (46 years!). My wife Mary (in lead photo, taken in 1973) bought it for me as a Father’s Day present—being keen enough to instantly recognize the car on the lid as an old Alfa Grand Prix car.
Obviously, this photo taken by Alessandro Gerelli at this year’s AutoClassica Milano caught our eye. That color. A mint green. Now, I don’t know if that was a factory color for those early 750 series Sprints. I don’t think the color was offered for the U.S. cars but I could be wrong.
Then I remembered I had an old bubble gum card from T.C.G…a company that made an entire line of artistically styled foreign cars in the 1960s, the Alfa was card number 47. And this one a 750 Sprint in the same mint green. [Read more…] about And How! Mint Giulietta
Review By Pete Vack
I am not an automobilia collector. I’m not in the market, don’t know the market, and couldn’t tell you if something was a fake unless it was labeled as such. I don’t even know how to find the values of automobilia and never watch the auction circuit. An Automobilia Ignoramus if you will.
So when I heard about the new magazine, AutoMobilia, The Collector’s Resource, I didn’t pay a great deal of attention. Then Sharon Spurlin, the magazine’s publisher, sent me the first two issues. And that got my attention. [Read more…] about AutoMobilia, The Collector’s Resource, Reviewed
By Brian Winer
There are many automotive fine art painters, most of whom cover the board on marques, depicting first one and then another, as whim dictates. Wallace Wyss, a relative newcomer to the field (his first painting was done in 2007) has intentionally focused on only two makes—Ferrari and the cars of Carroll Shelby, which includes Cobras and GT40s. Wyss will have a booth at Automobilia in Monterey. The booth will be open August 14 and 15th, 2012 from 10 a.m. to the early evening. The location is the Ballroom of the Embassy Suites hotel, located on US 1, just north of 68.
[Read more…] about Ferrari and Cobra Art by Wyss at Automobilia