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    Recycled Beauty

    Aug 02, 2019 5 minutes
    Richard Prince

    Way back in the Paleolithic Period, before Ben Franklin invented electricity and Al Gore put it to good use by inventing the internet, people scoured their local newspaper’s classified section in search of cool cars. One such practitioner of this ancient art was New Yorker Brian Commisso, and in 1986, an ad for a certain 1968 Mustang caused his heart to flutter with abandon. “The car for sale was a 1968 Shelby,” he explains, “so I immediately grabbed my buddy and went to see it.”

    Brian, who was erudite beyond his years—courtesy of HOT ROD and other similarly infallible sources of automotive knowledge—needed all of 2 seconds to recognize the very rusty Shelby on offer was genuinely very rusty, but not genuinely a Shelby. “I wasn’t interested in

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