Supercar Photographs

[Day2_69Z]

Mark, you hit the nail right on the head.

I visited Carl Dwiggins in 1987 at his invite and had the pleasure of a guided tour, show n tell for the better part of the day.... of his massive inventory of muscle car Chevys.
I say inventory as opposed to collection as he was a dealer, a restorer broker who sold his cars on high market and was solely profit oriented.

With that said, every orange black,red,yellow ,blue or silver color changed car was either one of the 2 shades of green (frost & fathom) along with burnished brown or any other undesirable colors of that period.
Verbatim, his motto was ,green & brown make great primer for red,orange, black,yellow and LeMans Blue !
A used car seller of "eyeball" and "eye candy"
He also had Great insight into the volume of green cars available to buy for less money because of the colors weak market.and also acquired better cars because of it.
Another major theme he had was buying badly rusted or wrecked desirable cars that were fairly complete and rebody them in restoration. (keep in mind in the early to mid 80's the reproduction sheet metal was mostly limited and or junk compated to todays parts and clean cars or rollers were easily attainable at modest prices.) He neved shyed away in stating openly which ones were rebodied or sectioned)
He spoke of "saving them" from total demise in the crusher or parts dismantling.
By the way, he had well over 150 units in various states...80+ totally rotisserie restored or original pedigrees. The others were in various shops, storage or nearing completion.

Resale Red was the theme for decades before him and now, decades later....just as Black isn't a Color, its a "Life Style"...