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Quote from: FL SAAC on February 16, 2023, 10:38:06 AM
Are you talking about this one ?

That one looks like it has different flares. Those look like the regular Group 5 flares and Megabuck had ones that looked similar but were a couple inches wider - they were hand formed out of steel and hammer welded to the body so you didn't see a seam. I couldn't see someone tossing out the aluminum inner panels either - they were a work of art. There was also a polished full belly pan and polished aluminum inner wheel wells. Last I heard the car was in a private collection in the Carolinas. Dennis (the builder) loved it whenever it changed hands whoever bought it would send it to him to be freshened. Everyone wanted it running but no one seemed willing to drive it. George Stauffer owned it at one time and he pulled out the custom nixie tube gauges (that never worked right) and put in normal gauges. The wiring on the car was a nightmare - it was all red with no coding/tracers on them. I had a couple hundred pictures I took while it was being built. Dennis brokered a deal to sell them to one of the owners - I should have made an extra set of prints there were lots of little details. I think I still have some of the Rossa Carrera red lacquer that was ordered from Italy by the local Ferrari dealer for it. I imagine the car has cracked and checked by this time. It's been 40+ years since it was laid on.   

Just cut a new slot for the pin @ 180 degrees.

"our time" Foreigner is a British-American rock band, originally formed in New York City in 1976

I'm stuck in the 60s. 

Quote from: Side-Oilers on February 12, 2023, 06:28:34 PM
Brett, what happened with the Pantera project?  Power, speed, etc

Trailer queen show car - I don't think anyone has driven it at any speed lest they ding up the polished aluminum inner wheel wells - it did sound good though. It was kinda Cammer meets turbine with the short pipes off the turbos.

We bought a pair of new ones for $25,000 each from Mickey Thompson when we were building the Megabuck Pantera. Cammer guru Earl Wade went through one of them and set it up for the twin turbo setup we ran. The other sat around until the guy who owned the Pantera lost interest and then it was sold to another friend for $10,000.

Somewhere I have a photo from SAAC-1. A guy trailered a 3 window coupe mounted on a 427 Cobra chassis with a Cammer in it. There were another 10 magnesium wheels in the bed of the truck that went along with the car. He was asking 10 grand it still needed interior and paint.

Quote from: FL SAAC on February 07, 2023, 06:37:46 PM
1968 Ford F3L / P68

It's even red like the Ferrari P330 - but 2 years late.

For some reason I predict a vintage Ford powered F1 car will be pulling into Farley's garage in the near future. (Sauber & Red Bull aren't old enough)

Just in time for - https://www.monacograndprixticket.com/grand-prix-historic/the-race

From the Cobra auction pitch: "The bodywork would also be repaired by hand in 2003"

It's nice to see they just didn't stick it in Kirkham's giant Coba stamping machine to fix it.

Quote from: SCJSTU on February 03, 2023, 10:36:24 PM
I had the pleasure of parking next to the Black Ghost at Amelia Cars and Coffee 2022

You notice the MKII Lincoln is getting the attention. It was Americas most expensive car at the time. I want one......yep still a day 2 guy.

Quote from: 6T6SHELBY on February 03, 2023, 09:05:31 PM
Anyone have any suggestions that are closer to North Carolina?

When you are talking restoration "where" goes out the window. There are many "restorers" but only a few that really know their stuff. The devil is in the details. If your friend is looking to have his car spruced up that's one thing but if he's willing to spend the time and money on a truly restored award winner then it's likely the guy won't be in his backyard. Since it's a Mustang check over at MCA for a recommendation on K restorers they know will do a good job.

Most dealers had a paper (cardboard) plate with their name or some other Ford ad. West coast dealers seemed to prefer license frames with their names on them while those on the east coast all seemed to have emblems they put on the back with their name.

They built and stored about 20-30 at the Warner Bros Ranch where they filmed some of the show outside shots. WB is selling the property and it will be rebuilt as a bunch of sound stages. https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1586081,-118.3441524,467m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&authuser=0

The town square they slid around - https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1486575,-118.3362316,77m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&authuser=0

I always hated going to Warner Bros - dirtiest studio in town. It was almost a guaranteed that you'd get a nail in your tire.

Ford will contribute in battery and electric development among other areas. How much to stick your decal on the car??? We all know how well the "engineering" help was to the GT40 program. It wasn't until real racers got a free hand to build and manage the cars that they won.  Basically "Ford is getting naming rights"
As woke as Ford has become I'm surprised they just didn't buy out the Formula E series.

Quote from: Side-Oilers on February 02, 2023, 04:41:02 PM
Yep, while a few of those cars look near-new and probably wrangled from dealers or the staff/friends of the Mark IV production company, many of the stunt cars were probably bought for $1000 (or less) at a salvage yard, needing some major work. 

I heard a couple estimates on General Lees that were used one was just over 130 and the other 154. I can pretty much assure you every car in this shot has at least 5 pounds of bondo and may even have one side caved in. These are all 20 footers. There are several lots like this all over LA. The guy next door takes better care of his cars.

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.2072696,-118.361119,122m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en&authuser=0

Quote from: 6s1640 on February 02, 2023, 03:36:29 AMThe California plate is 567 AZG. 

The blue/yellow replaced the black/yellow plates. The got replaced by the white (reflective)/blue ones. So it's hard to figure out when the same owner could have had 3 different plates on the car during the first 5 years.

Quote from: Shelby73 on December 04, 2019, 10:28:12 PM
Just keep your cars till you die, when you die your kids can revalue your estates real estate and cars to current values and then they will not pay capital gains as long as they sell them for that stated value.  That's as long as your estate stays under 10 million for each husband and wife. Another words 20 million total roughly for the pair.

Here is where a trust comes in handy.

RE: tax at auction. I remember a few years ago AZ thought they'd go after a big chunk and tax the sales at BJ. After the lawyers got done it was set that if the car was transported out of the state for delivery to buyer no tax. If the buyer took possession in AZ they would tax the sale (I think that got changed to if it was operated on an AZ road they got the tax but not if it left on a trailer). In CA if you buy a car out of state and pay say 6% tax when you register it in CA they will charge you the difference to get to the 10% CA tax another 4%.