Brudda

Ok the last 250 on the auction block was $42,000,000. The private sale of the silver 250 was bought privately for $72,000,000. So $100,000,000 is possible. History, history, history is everything. …. For instance take a regular 1965 mustang fastback. It sells for this much. If Carroll Shelby put his number on that car what is it worth now? Carroll Shelby has history. And if a famous race car driver raced or owned that car it goes up in price. History. Yeah $100,000,000 is possible.

Ready to have the suspension and engine installed. After the install I get it back for the sheet metal. Just a 1:1 model.

Hello Micheal. I never had that kind of money. These guys and gals have so much it’s unbelievable. There is a guy that just sold his computer company for $250,000,000 and he was at the bottom of the wait list to buy one of these. Insane! The guy at the top of the list has over 15 billion. He gets what he wants. I talked to him for several minutes and it was like we were friends forever. He just asked is my car going to be ready? I said yes and he’s a happy camper. Did not even care about cost. Boy to have that kind of money. I just charge a fair rate and it makes everyone happy. Now if it needs to be done faster they know the price goes up. A lot! And usually it has to be fixed fast. Another strange thing is that no one gets pushy. I have never had a guy or gal get weird on me. Now the guys who think they have money are the ones who try to get pushy. But I just mention one of these billionaires name and they shut up. I just got back from Denver to look at a wrecked ferrari. They paid for everything. These guys and gals do pay for everything. So I’ll be working on his car soon. Ferrari has also notified me that they want to make my city a port of entry for the challenge cars. It’s kind of getting bigger than I thought. Oh well let’s see where it goes.

Just a big .1:1 model kit ….. well a very expensive model kit.

Getting quite an assortment of parts. A little over $100,000 in parts, absolutely insane. My little 1:1 Ferrari parts and cars. Totally crazy.

917/30 engine. And tires and wheels. Framework next.

Won this in a raffle at the Fremont Hornets contest

Car finished and ran at laguna seca

Claude you are amazing. The creative touches to car modeling is outstanding. I like this build. A glue bomb to this! Great job sir. The studio is still producing beautiful builds.

A McLaren m8a tamiya kit. The orange parts are out of bags but the rest is bagged. All parts are there. Looking for Fujimi Ferrari street cars. Fujimi cobras. Same value or close. I have all Ferrari f1 kits, so no f1.

Beautiful car. It’s cool a car company has the grit to come out with something cool, not a suv. On the subject on horse power, 550? WOW. I agree with Ace , not many can handle the power. Muscle cars are the prime example. It’s not the horse power that ruins muscle cars , it’s stupid people. Back in the day, 400 hp was big, so people bought muscle cars but could not control the power and crashed. Hence the big insurance premiums. If people did not crash their cars , the insurance company would provide reasonable rates, but nooooo idiots who cannot control their mega horsepower cars are the ones to blame. For example: I drove a 1993 svt cobra on the ford test track in phoenix. It was way more car than I could handle. Great car , average driver. It was 285 hp. I even had a little race experience in sprint cars and midgets back then. 800 hp in a sprint car and about 400 in a midget back then. So I was not green by any means. But that 285 hp svt cobra was very quick and even I could not get its true potential out of it. Bob Bondurant gave us a quick lesson in being a road corse driver. I humbly learned that the car was more than me. Fast forward to today…. More idiots , a lot more and these guys crash. Same old story. I also agree with Micheal on complaining. If there’s something new , there’s some guy or girl complaining about it. My dad said ( about cars) if someone is complaining , they cannot afford it or are jealous of it.

Thank you Mark

Thank you sir

This is all I know , straightening metal. I have been doing this since 1969. It’s not a hard job , but some say it is. Started by taking Porsches , Ferraris and jaguars apart. To this today. Working on 296 Ferrari challenge cars. Love every minute. Plus the pays not bad either. And the benefits? Ferrari paying for everything like laguna seca a few weeks back. Yes it’s fun. ( the last three pics is a 296 that hit the wall at Daytona, and us fixing that car. Made it to Laguna Seca)

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