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Subject: [Fot] Group 44 car found
From: billdentin at aol.com (Bill Dentinger)
Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 07:31:36 -0700
References: <6DBC7806-A52C-408A-B1FA-BCBB8282C786@grassrootsmotorsports.com> <16397551abc-c91-7b87@webjas-vaa173.srv.aolmail.net>
Geeeez...I thought as long as you had the commission plate...it wats a 
restoration. Bill Dentinger

Sent from my iPhone

> On May 25, 2018, at 5:45 AM, fubog1 via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> "Can this car be saved? Should it be saved? If you re-body some, or all of 
> it, have you really saved it?"
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> -----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
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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. 
> 
> Tim Suddard
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