How we got here
Carnection Advisor founder Jim Kruse was raised in a family that restored some of the rarest cars in the world. A past board member of the Horseless Carriage Club of America, he went on his first car hunting trip at the age of 12 and grew up driving in hundreds of rallies. It was during this time that he decided to seek a career in the collector car industry. That decision led him to become a premier collector car insurance expert.
Over the last two decades, Jim traveled the world to be with cars and collectors at events like the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance and the Paris Retromobile. When you're around collectors as often as Jim, you get asked a lot of questions. "Where should I sell my car?" "My kids aren't interested in the cars, what should I do?"
Acquiring a classic car is easy. Mapping out a succession plan for your collection is an artform. That's where Carnection Advisors come in. As a fee based advisory firm, we never take payment from any business or organization. We work solely in your best interest to put your plan into action.
What we do
We provide confidential and objective classic car advice to our clients by assisting them in pre-planning the future of their collection. It's an important part of an estate but frequently gets left to the surviving spouse at the worst possible time.
The Carnection Advisory Plan (CAP) is a four-step process.
- Get to know you and your history.
- Review each car and establish its General Market Value™ (GMV).
- We'll go deeper to establish the Historic Market Value™ (HMV) for each car by documenting what makes them unique.
- Map the future of your collection and store the cars in your own virtual garage.