Re: Hub Cap CLOISSONE

Posted by Tim Cole On 2015/11/11 7:06:22

Here is my beef on this topic (besides the obvious ghetto logic):

A car with a plated shell is sent to the paint shop where they take a grinder to the poor thing. Now it is permanently damaged and can never be put back to original. The only thing left to finish the job is to take a ball peen hammer to it.

I would knock $20,000 off the price of any car with a castrated radiator shell. That's what any vendor does with paintings that have been cleaned with oven cleaner. More for open cars because those shells are impossible to replace.

I don't think the Packard crowd cares much about true authenticity. They just make stuff up.