Building a masterpiece Gary wales is a prototypal car guy who builds, restores and relishes elderly automobiles that are huge, outrageous, make tons of noise and are almost original. He's also the consummate tool man and home improver who has converted his woodland hills home into a medieval museum ranch.Driven by the blessed curse of terminal irreverence, wales once upholstered a $2 million french car in frog skins.He enters vintage car races in home builts no older than his imagination, and has herded 10, 000 pieces of castoff chrome and enamel worth very little by the piece into the world's largest collection of car badges. Now wales is marketing a trompe l'oeil for the motorist who has driven everything:A dinosaurian, excessive, almost original reproduction of a thunder throated blower bentley race car of the early '30s. And $250, 000 for this british revival, wales notes, is a bargain. "Ralph lauren paid $7 million at auction for the first of the blower ben ... Read more »