These days, collector cars of a certain caliber truly are investment pieces. Whether used as a way to move your money around via backchannels or simply because the car in question is rocketing up in value, there's no denying that at a certain level, a car is like any other asset that requires strong documentation and legal protections.
There's a consignment specialist in south Florida that specializes in extremely desirable Italian cars, owing to its founder's long-standing family history with Lamborghini. John Temerian is the founder of Curated, and the name alone should tell you what he specializes in for consignment vehicles. He finds cars on behalf of his clients that are exceedingly rare and require high levels of documentation to ensure the car is what Curated claims it to be. At his level and price point, a misstep in any sort of provenance claims is a mistake that can cost deep into the six-figures.
Put simply, John is a guy we can emphasize with in terms of understanding the value of a deep paper trail supporting a particular car. Which is why we were more than a little surprised to see him using a Word document as a means of conveying to the next owner of a long-missing Vector W8 the critical information establishing it as the car he claimed it was. John conducted numerous interviews and worked with attorneys and other legal experts who knew about the car's checkered past to compile all of the necessary data to validate its existence. This sleuthing was also appreciated by the sellers, who obviously wanted to confirm that there was no outstanding legal concerns on the car, which had been re-possessed by Lamborghini at one point in time.
All of this is to say, seeing a guy a like John not using The Common Gear to track, store, and log receipts and build sheets and affidavits makes me wonder what it would take to get him to log all of his consignment vehicle documentation onto the website we've built. If anyone knows John or has a way to get in front of him, please let me know - we'd love to see him and his stunning collection securely documented on our digital curation platform.