Derek wrote:
>
> Now what happens if the worst happens and an original is
> extensively destroyed? Of course the serial tag
> miraculously survives!
And has happened..... Aluminum cars don't survive fires
very well, but the frames can. Thus sprang forth the
7th Daytona Coupe (CAL Lic COUPE7)which was built on the frame
of a 289 Cobra that was burned to a crisp in the notorious
Santa Barbara fire about 8 years ago. Several more
were commissioned and built by McCluskey in L.A, and one was
raced at the Monterey Historics, entered by Shelby
and driven by John Morton.....or was it?????
>
> How much of a rebuild or renovation is acceptable? If the
> Kirkham body is in fact the best available and that gets
> used - and then - and and and - etc etc etc - you know
> where I'm going. Everything is perfect but not original. It
> becomes the same situation as a race car that is raced and
> rebuilt over and over again.
Yup.
>
> You (SAAC) may have rules/guidelines on this sort of thing
> - and other groups (for different cars) may have theirs -
> but in the end I suspect it is like trying to prove that a
> deity exists - you can't do it - you just have to believe.
How true.
Walt
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