[Fot] Group 44 car found

[Bill Dentinger]

Geeeez...I thought as long as you had the commission plate...it wats a restoration. Bill Dentinger

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> On May 25, 2018, at 5:45 AM, fubog1 via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> "Can this car be saved? Should it be saved? If you re-body some, or all of it, have you really saved it?"
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> Answers-
> 1- Anything can be saved
> 2- YES!
> 3- That's the tough one to answer, with no original parts remaining, it would pretty much be a "recreation".
> 
> Glen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Suddard via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
> To: fot <fot at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Fri, May 25, 2018 8:18 am
> Subject: [Fot] Group 44 car found
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> And on another note, two more TR3s have just come into my life. Bill Emery has passed his late father’s two cars on to me, thinking I might be a good caretaker for them.
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> After talking to Bill and Bob Tullius, and reading through his dad’s correspondence I am convinced one of the cars, (the very rough yellow one) is the Group 44 car that Bob Tullius built for Donna Mae Mims to race in the 1965. I have also found the original red paint and pink paint on the car.
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> So this brings up some interesting ethical and technical conversations… (also lots to write about in Classic Motorsports). Can this car be saved? Should it be saved? If you re-body some, or all of it, have you really saved it? While I know, from correspondence that some of the Group 44 parts are on the red car, much of the Group 44 stuff is long gone. 
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