{"id":12613,"date":"2015-12-16T22:53:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T03:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/?p=12613"},"modified":"2015-12-16T22:53:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T03:53:29","slug":"driven-by-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/2015\/12\/driven-by-disruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Driven By Disruption!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early this year, I found a ’65 Roadster for my customer and friend Shaun Saunders in Scottsdale, AZ.\u00a0 He is always looking for good restoration candidates, which will eventually be sent to the RM Auctions in Scottsdale, AZ and Monterey, CA.<\/p>\n

This car was a GREAT example – straight and solid and entirely complete and original, so I purchased the car for him, did some minimal metalwork on some minr rust problems on the bonnet, and then shipped him the car the first week of June.\u00a0 The plan was for this to be his Scottsdale car for January, 2016…<\/p>\n

Then in the Fall, he got a call from RM asking if he could finish the car sooner – in time for the special auction in December at the Sotheby’s building in New York.\u00a0 This is the same auction two years ago where the record price for a Series 1 E-Type roadster was set.\u00a0 This seemed like a special opportunity, and so he agreed – and then while I was killing myself in September building the new shop, he was on the other side of the country at the same time, building this car!<\/p>\n

Whenn he told me that the car was coming back to New York for this special event, I just blurted out, “I’m Going!”<\/p>\n

And so I went – with a date this time!<\/p>\n