A Field Guide for Owners and Buyers
Badges are cheap. Tags get replaced. “Numbers matching” means four different things depending on who's saying it — and the gap between a real car and a well-built tribute is usually five figures. This is the fifty-page field guide that shows you how to tell the difference yourself, in about twenty minutes, with a flashlight.
“Markets pay for proof. They discount stories.”
Chapter OneThe Guide
Where every identifying number is stamped on a GM, Ford or Chrysler classic. What each one means. How to tell when somebody has changed them. Then what to do about it — buy it, sell it, or keep it and protect it. Set in large type and laid out to be printed and kept with the car.
The Gap
Two cars can share a body, a colour, an engine size and a model year, and be separated by a factor of three at the auction block. The difference is never the paint. It's what can be proven.
A zero in any column collapses the product. A pristine car with a doubtful identity is a pristine doubt.
Value=Identity×Condition×Documentation
Scarcity does the first half of the work. Provability does the second half — because a rare configuration that cannot be proven is, at sale time, indistinguishable from a common one wearing its clothes. A factory document costing under a hundred dollars routinely moves a sale price by thousands: it converts a story into a fact.
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Where This Comes From
Every fact in this guide traces to something you can check: factory build records, marque registries, and published auction results. Not forum posts. Not sellers' listings. Where a detail couldn't be verified, we cut it — and tell you which registry can verify it for your specific car.
If you find an error, tell us. We'll correct it and send the update to everyone who owns a copy, free.
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Field Guide · 50 Pages · First Edition
Authenticating, valuing, buying and selling American classics. One method for establishing what a car genuinely is — and three clear paths for what to do next.
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Questions
No — it's a PDF you download the moment you pay. It's designed to be printed if you'd rather read on paper, and most people do.
American classics from the nineteen fifties through the nineteen seventies — GM, Ford and Chrysler products. The method works on any of them.
No. The checks need a flashlight, a cloth, and a camera or phone.
It teaches you to establish that yourself from real sold prices. It won't quote a number for your specific car, because nobody honestly can without seeing it.
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Yes — it's built for that, on standard US Letter paper.
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