Historical Research and Verification

it raced in this configuration well like I said when we found it it was primered white and everything [Music] and I was already I became pretty good friends with Mark so I had texted him a picture of the dash tag that's on it because it has a 50 a zero 51 tag over there on the far corner of the dash and I said hey man do you remember this chassis because I had to restore a Thunderbird prior to that and it was an older chassis and he didn't remember it you know the chassis tag on it was still there but he didn't recall that car I'll send him a picture of this it was like five minutes and he's like yes I remember that car I raced it a bunch and that was my favorite car at Roush so I went and picked it up right then like I didn't care if it had won you know whatever I went and picked it up because he had told me that I just was looking for one that he had raced because I was a fan since I was little this was the car I saw when I was you know my son's age five six years old so we went and picked it up brought it back started doing more research on it and through finding the research out that we did talking to Mark Moore uh Jimmy Finnick which was the crew chief for Mark back then there was like nine or ten crew members that worked on the car talked to all them they all had the same story on the car and all I did was show them a tag on the dash they all come back with the same story yeah that's the car we won these races with it was the best intermediate car we had you know all these different things you know how did you find it where was it and then the craziest thing was there's a guy that works at Roush now his name's John Armbruster he got a hold of me because he knew that I had it or maybe I messaged him first I can't recall but he still works at Ralph she worked there back then too he remembered it and two or three of his buddies that still worked there they remembered it and he actually found files in The Archives of this car when it was in the wind tunnel and he found wind tunnel photos of it and when everybody realized that that was the car that we had found that's when everything started ramping up like you know doing this and then I realized hey we got to restore back to the 98 body and hunt the 2000 body that was on it so we had to take it and have a new tail panel put on it Hood which is the 98 Hood that's the 98 tail panel it's got a 98 front bumper the front fenders had to be all redone and English wheeled all that was done by Ronnie Hoover in…