Discovery and Initial Condition of the Car

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The owner and restorer, Landon, explains how he discovered the car. He found it through a Facebook listing from an older gentleman who was selling it for a friend, with no pictures, only a description. Upon receiving photos, Landon realized the car was in the exact state it was left after a test run at Atlanta in 1999, wearing a 2000 Taurus body in white primer with a large Ford decal on the hood. Crucially, many original components like the shocks, springs, seat, and seat belts were still installed and marked from the test.

Goal: Understand how the car was found and its original state.

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after race after race because it was so special how does this all start wait boards into this car this car starts two years ago or more I found a guy on Facebook he didn't have any pictures he was just listing and for a friend because they were both older you know so the guy that originally owned it wasn't on Facebook so this guy that I was friends with like I said he's older gentleman he listed a description of the car but never put any pictures up of it well I was interested in it so I messaged him I got some more info then I got some photos of the car and the way we found it or the way it was sitting was the last thing they ever did with it was they tested the car at Atlanta in 1999 and they had put the 2000 tourist body on it but it was primered white and I had a big core decal on the hood and that was all it was after that I don't know why or where it went or you know why they didn't raise it but that's the exact way it was found when I picked it up the shocks are still on it from that test the Springs are still in it from that test they're marked from that test wow uh that's his original seat that was in it the belts that were in it those belts in that seat were in it the day they built it because they're dated so that belt those belts in that seat and every everything else that's in the car that's dated was in the car the first time they built it and it went through every race and every win that the car had how many wins is that four four yeah it won this race which was Vegas in 98 which is the very first Cup race here this was actually the very first tourist that won a points earning race because if you remember I think Rusty Wallace won one of the duels or the 125 at Daytona that year but that wasn't a points race that was just for the qualifying order for the 500. yeah because we just did that video with Don Miller talking about the origin of this body style Taurus but this was the very first points earning win for a Taurus born here at Vegas Texas California and Michigan but it raced over 10 times and it finished second multiple times

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