What makes an historic automobile authentic? Gundula Tutt and Sebastian Hoffmann explore the “three pillars” of authenticity and demonstrate how physical evidence, documentation, provenance, and expert analysis can be brought together to understand an automobile’s true history—and inform the decisions we make about its preservation, restoration, and use.
Over four days we have considered authenticity, craftsmanship, markets, knowledge, preservation, operation, collecting, and legacy. In this closing conversation, Miles Collier and colleagues bring those ideas together around one final challenge: What responsibility do we assume when we become stewards of historically significant automobiles and how can each of us become “Active Matter” in preserving their knowledge, meaning, and experience for generations to come?
