Hey, thanks! Appreciate the kind words.

Hi Justin, order of one job please thanks

Kinja automatically resizes images when you upload them, so people are only seeing 800 x 533 files when they open in a new tab or download. I explained how to find the full-res in another post. That’s why people are always complaining, just FYI.

Might be worth linking directly to the original files in the post. Kinja resizes automatically when posting which makes it tricky to find the full resolution images.

In terms of companies focusing on resto-modding specific models — as opposed to a general purpose hot rod shop — more and more are popping up. As you said, the market is clearly there.

Oh, wow, I hadn’t seen that one yet. The front clip is pretty amazing, love the 250 GTO homage.

Yeah, can’t say where his exact claim is coming from. As you say, though, sure must be a nice toy...

I know, pretty amazing machine. Don’t even want to think about how much Ferrari charges for the pleasure.

Huh, appears you’re correct. Shows you how well versed I am in telling GT3 cars apart. Still, he claims its the only one owned by a private individual.

Wow, well there you go. Props on your internet sleuthing abilities.

Oh, for sure. With some digging it’s probably possible, I’ve just not seen any confirmations anywhere of an identity yet. As another poster said, though, most likely UAE royalty of some kind.

Ha, yeah, I know that there are certainly those who try to fake profiles, but this one is legit. You’ll often see prominent photographers doing shoots of his cars (Alex Penfold, for one).

a specific customer who likely has unfathomable amounts of cash

Glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed the resemblance.

Top Tip: A faster way to tell would be to look at the roof — the SL65 Black Series was the only SL of that generation to have a fully fixed roof instead of a folding hardtop.

He’s one of Jalopnik’s video guys (the other being Mike Roselli). He’s the one who owns the bagged Subaru Baja.

Ah, gotcha. Yeah that was an interesting choice for sure, especially since there was never any kind of announcement on his old channel about the move of new content. Seems like they could have tried to keep that audience a bit better.

Just for future reference, they aren’t walled off nor have they been since his new gig at Top Gear. You can watch all of his new clips (and some old ones) on the TG website right here.

The factory did it best for me. The second generation Superleggera will probably always be my favorite Gallardo. Followed by the also excellent Balboni edition:

It gets even crazier than that — here’s one for $260,000.