April 2022 - Richard M. Langworth

Safeguarding the Arts: Churchill Quotes and Misquotes

30 April 2022 Comments 0 Comments

"The Arts are essential to any complete national life.... Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the reverence and delight which are their due" (Churchill, April 1938). "No, bury them in caves and cellars. None must go. We are going to beat them" (Churchill, June 1940).

Churchill Clairvoyant, 1891: Confidence or Realism?

26 April 2022 Comments 0 Comments

It was a summer's evening, Sir Murland Evans recalled, "in one of those dreadful basement rooms in the Head Master's House, a Sunday, to be exact, after chapel evensong. We frankly discussed our futures." What came next was a stunner....

Collector Car Values: Clunkers and Others—A Sampler

21 April 2022 Comments 1 Comment

For 30 years I've written the bimonthly Values Guide for "Collectible Automobile," which for 40 years has consistently turned out quality articles and fine photography on collector cars. I write without a byline, hoping to avoid being denounced by owners who think their car is worth a lot more than the market says it is. But sometimes we make a mistakes....