Guides

Buyer’s guides and notes from East Bay.

A proper pre-purchase inspection is the cheapest money you will spend on a collector car. What a thorough one covers, and what it saves you from.

Matching numbers can add - or quietly erase - six figures of value. What it means, how it is verified, and where buyers get caught.

The best examples rarely reach the open market. How private sourcing works, and how to buy a collector car that was never advertised.