The yellow one found in Los Angeles suburb was not the buried one
The fireman's GT40 (with Mk. II rear body style tho it was Mk. I) was intact when he bought it from Salt Walther.It was only buried under cardboard boxes in his SF valley garage.
The buried one has a different chassis number and is explored in Jerry Heasley's Barn Find book except Jerry does not go into that a later owner of that car, once dug up, has had a chassis change yet we are still supposed to believe that it is the real car dug up.
I am a little wary of chassis changes, in fact i threw away my Lola T-70 book after I came across at least ten cars with chassis changes. I mean if you can change the chassis, where's the real car. Everything but the chassis , fundamentally, is just an accessory.
I'd still like to hear what the Fireman paid. He told me but I forgot after nearly 40 years...
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