[from "Dick Buckingham, Jr."]
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>Lastly, there were the comments about Briggs Cunningham's feelings that
>old race cars should be in museums and not on the track. His cars, of
>course, went to the Collier collection in Florida. One of the LeMans
>XKE's (looking as it did when it came off the track in France) was on
>display (not raced) and as it was being moved to be shipped back to
>Florida, the nose was damaged. So it seems there is "risk" in
>everything we do be it on the track or elsewhere.
And the prototype 356 Porsche that ws dropped off a forklift
last year on it's way over. Caught that on Speedvision.
I say race cars were meant to be raced, cars are meant to be driven.
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