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Steve Butler
Founding Director and Lead Appraiser
Steve has varied experiences in the Automotive
field including many of his early years as body man and estimator,
moving up to mechanical services and parts departments then into Sales
and management of Retail and Wholesale car lots in the Midwest and the
South Eastern United States.
Opening and / or operating several Parts and "Speed
Shops" during the "Muscle Car Era". Steve has also designed and "spec'd
out" restorations or "Builds' of Automobiles, Street Rods, Hot Rods and
Restoration of "Original Concourse Cars", including but not limited to
Electrical, Sheet metal, Mechanical, Upholstery and Custom Graphics &
Paint. Steve has also been
involved in purchasing and maintaining large fleets of Automobiles and
light duty trucks.
Steve
has been instrumental in establishing parameters, guide lines and
policies to establish values of Restored, Antique, Collector,
Special Interest, One Ofs (Custom Built) and Customized Automobiles as
well as standards for "Judging" in Shows or other events.
Steve has spent the past 18 years as an active
historian and feature writer for local, regional, national and
international publications, continuing his meticulous
research on this subject, enlisting information from
NADA,
Kelly Blue Book and
monitoring and indexing results from the auctions conducted by
Barrett-Jackson.
Mecum
and RM collector
Auto Auction organizations. The
Central Florida area is truly an international and diverse Market, this
requires extensive research to establish a value for these examples of
"Rolling Automotive History".
Steve, along with his wife Linda are active in the
"Registration" and / or tracking of "Cruisers" and their automobiles
that attend "Cruises", "Cruise-Ins" and Auto Shows. Including but not
limited to
"The Saturday Nite Cruise©"
an international tradition since 1990 at the
Old Town shopping attraction in Kissimmee, Floridan or
Little
Darlins' Street Party and the Wednesday Nite Cruise-In every week with their 2 Classic Car. He has photographed and inspected thousands of
these cars that are on display at his "The
Last Decade" website. They have also developed databases for
tracking the "Values" of these examples of "Rolling Automotive History".
Most recently he is involved as Publisher and
Managing Editor for
"Steve
Butler's Cruise-In News" and
"Steve Butler's
Cruise-In News On-Line", Central Florida's longest running
weekly publication that covers many "Automobile" events, that he and his
wife attend on a weekly basis, along with adding his expertise as the
Lead Appraiser for FACACA.
Steve also has many years in the marine
field and is proficient verifying appraisals on vessels up to and
including 55'. His connections with national and International Yacht
Brokers allow him up to minute changes in this market as well. |
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Steve Butler
Steve McCullough
Ed Booher
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