[Badger]

Hi Turbo II...Sorry to disposses you of your personal feelings about the condition of Daytona Coupe CSX2287's exterior "authenticity" and "history", "complete with salt residue from Bonneville", but nothing on the car's exterior surface is actually "real" from the Shelby area. After it estabished that amazing set of FIA speed records on the salt the car was returned to SAI where Carroll Shelby was appalled at it's condition. (He'd sent it to Bonneville in Concour's form, having just taken it off the Ford "Total Performance" show tour. He actually offered the car to anyone in the shop who might want it, for a paltry $800! Everyone turned the deal down! So over the next few weeks it was rebuilt and placed on the market. The car was eventually purchased by slot car magnate Jim Russel of Russkit, who drove it on the street daily for about two years. He then sold it to Phil Spector who then totally screwed it up with a "new" paint job of the wrong color with wrong dimension stripes and false signage on the door proclaiming it had a 427 engine and some other malarky. He also added the bogus exhaust. So when the car was rediscovered after all these years everybody assumed it was somehow "original", just as it might have been if purchased from Shelby. The truth is Shelby's crew would NEVER have let a car leave the shop looking as it did. So all the so-called "patina" of it's present condition is wrong. Badger