She would rebuff anybody who presented themselves as interested in the car, carroll Shelby himself went to visit her to see the car, and she wouldn't even open her screen door to talk to him. It was widely known she had it, but it was also widely known that you couldn't communicate with her... people had given up going for it.

Frederick Simeone

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The car was in excellent condition out of storage, all of the original bits were there, no missing parts, only the front end was banged in, so we had to hammer that out because it was simply too ugly. The rest of the paint was dull but intact and all we had to do was get rid of the oxidation, and it came out very decent. The only things that we had to replace ended up being brake lines and a few bits of wiring.

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The aftermath of the sale was was more difficult than the sale itself, because when word got out among the motoring community that the car was discovered and was being purchased by a private party, a lot of people desperately tried to buy it, and asked a judge to put it up for public sale.

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Everybody was gonna wanna have a story.

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He just had upholstery put it, that's all, and he put some writing on the side of the car, with house paint, but we were able to get that off.

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If you look at the history of sports car racing, America had contributed very little by then compared to England, Italy, Germany and even France.

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The Superbowl of racing.

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