[Tracer427]

I think I tend to agree. no one stopped the man from taking the pictures.
and the story is out in the open now.

I think I read in a Wallace Weiss book that about 500 Series 1s were built but only about 240 were completed and sold. They were all considered 1999 models no matter when they were delivered.The remaining 260 cars never got engines. He doesn't know where they are presently.

So it makes sense that there are a lot of parts at the ready.

all we need now is a picture of ol' Shel standing over a hybrid motor in the shop, just like that old picture of him and Hurlock over the Ford V-8