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Several years ago I had my (replica) 289 at a local car show and this fellow wandered up and said "that's just like my car". In my head I thought "yea, right". Turns out he was right as in this small Oregon town he had a candy apple red 289 that he bought new when he worked across the street from the Shelby factory in Venice, Cal. It was totally original in decent, but far from show condition. Several years later I saw it for sale on the Hyman site for close to a million, and it had been restored. There will be fewer and fewer of these stories since any original owner would likely be well over 80 years old.
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