[WILMASBOYL78]

Well..let's hope it doesn't come to this

-wilma

Originally Posted by RichSchmidt

I just wonder how long it will be until someone figures out how to fool the judges into thinking that a car is a super low miles (like double digit low) survivor when it is in fact a car that was restored to look like one. You know,like guys who would literally paint a car to have the correct MIL thickness of paint using original laquer,and would spray weak tea on the paper tags to make them look aged and salt brine onto restored bare metal parts to make them look like they have been exposed to the air for the last 50 years. Maybe melt down the grease pen sticks and mix in some brown with the color to make the color look aged. Real high level stuff. I once had a conversation with a collector of Hummel figurines and he said that the collector market is always capped at a certain point because the more something is worth,the more it is worth forging. When a collector item is cheap the knock offs are poorly made and easy to identify because to put the effort into an accurate reproduction would not yield enough profit. Once something becomes worth enough,it becomes worthwhile to create the entire process needed to properly reproduce something down to the microscopic details. If the survivor market goes too high there will come a point when someone will figure out how to fool the judges. Bribing previous owners to make false statements,staging fake pictures using outdated camera equipment and paper to create aged photos that tell a story that never happened. Hiring look a likes to pose as younger versions of the previous owners just to create the perfect back story etc. For a few million bucks it is worth someone doing it.