Examining the Custom Chassis and Race Damage

together and welded them up and under the hood it's it's it's ratty folks but it Remains the real car I think it's cooler in this form than it was if it had been stripped and repainted yeah and here's my biggest dilemma is do I partially repair the paint and keep it original or do I go ahead and restore it to a te that's that's been a really tough question because this paintwork right here is history and a good friend of mine Joey Knuckles that raced on this team that worked on this team worked on this car worked for budmore told me that it's it just when he walked up to it he just knew and so and then I took it down to South Carolina and let Greg Moore and I've got pictures of and I've got the documentation of all that Greg Moore walked up to it and just smiled he said I can tell you right now this is the real deal let me show you under the hood real quick if you can help me his hood weighs not as bad as the Matador okay that's good can you see that now now she's wanting to roll yeah but you look all look at all of this it's still got the headlight bucket mounting in there too yeah you could you could pop those panels out and put a headlight back in this thing y insane and here's the here's the connection also is my dad used to double date with banjo Matthews in Miami the one thing that really shocked my dad was the talent that banjo had for racing in my dad never knew he had it he ended up working on the crew for banjo's Te uh Team during the beach Race part of this main bathtub bar up top is bent what is that from how did that happen this is probably the accident that um junked the car do you know which like what was the last time that this car was used what are we looking at its form uh Greg Moore can answer that question when