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Old 03-06-2003, 01:20 PM
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J.T.

I have never understood the idea of building a car that you can't drive either but believe me there are a lot of them with mega bucks of money invested in them. I had one guy from the Bay Area down looking under my Cobra at a small show South of here a few years ago and asked him if I could answer any questions. His reply was that he was looking to see if my chrome had changed color so he would know if the car was driven or not. He was sick of going to car shows down there and looking at cars that were never started and didn't even have all the insides in the engines. I saw a Lincoln Continental at one of those shows with the block chromed and more billit than I have ever seen and that car had nothing at all inside the motor. Fantastic paint and interior. Owner told me he had way over $350,000 dollars invested in it to that point. Once in Sacramento they had a show of movie cars and they had to start the cars and drive them from the fair ground entrance into the building. I asked one of the people why they wouldn't let them pull the trailers into the fairground to unload and he told me they wanted to see every car run at least that 1/4 mile from the entrance and back to make sure they didn't put any of the non running cars in the show.

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