About Us

We didn't source generic recycled metal. We bought a specific car — traced its lines into sunglass temples — and we can tell you exactly where every frame came from.

The car

The first Numbers / Matching car is a 1986 Porsche 911 — Garnet Red Metallic, air-cooled flat-six, salvage title when we found it.

Most people saw scrap. We saw a roofline worth saving. A beltline worth tracing. A car that deserved better than a crusher.

We acquired and stripped the body panels, and brought them to Camisasca Automotive in Lake Forest, California. What came out of that shop is the Air Cooled Collection.

The Founders

Numbers / Matching is Adam Kaslikowski and Matt Schwartz, both based in Los Angeles. 

We came from a shared conviction that the things people wear — and especially the things they wear on their face — deserve better provenance than "sustainably sourced materials."

The car collecting world figured this out a long time ago. A numbers-matching car is worth more not because it looks different, but because it is different — you know its history. We think eyewear should work the same way.

The 1986 Porsche 911 was the first car. There will be others.

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Meet Matt Schwartz

Matt has a decade of experience in eyewear, surpassed only by his tenure of classic car ownership. Matt was previously the Head of Operations at Frameri, a tech-forward interchangeable eyewear brand.

Meet Adam Kaslikowski

Adam is a serial entrepreneur who never sells any cars, leading to an overstuffed garage of mostly-running vintage vehicles. He never wears sunglasses at night.