Wayne Carini A master restorer and a collection advisor!
Wayne Carini is a master restorer and a collection adviser and manager for clients around the world. For more than a decade, he has been the host of Chasing Classic Cars, now on MotorTrend Network. He recently moved to his dream home on a farm where he can play with his cars and grow grapes for his next project, Carini Vineyards. HOW Wayne Carini ran a vintage rally in a $300 Renault, thanks to a peanut jar By: Wayne Carini I grew up driving a tractor on my family’s 350-acre fruit farm in Connecticut. Eventually, I wanted a cheap car that I could drive around the property. Now, when I say cheap, I mean dirt cheap. I ended up with three in all. There was a ’51 Chevy, a ’49 “Shoebox” Ford four-door, and a ’46 Chrysler convertible that my dad used as a parts car. The top was gone, the interior was coming unstuffed, and it had the unusual Fluid Drive transmission. What these cars had in common is they all cost me less than $25 each. They weren’t running when I got t...