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Old 01-02-2018, 01:40 AM
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Did this car ever get fixed?
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At some point you just have to say goodbye to the car , no matter how rare it used to be.
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Cannot believe they would fix that without a rebody. I had a 69RS vert that was burnt to a crisp when the car next to it was firebombed outside a body shop. The remaining sheetmetal left on my car was so weak that the car buckled in the middle when we went to pull it out.
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Hard to see... That's one where you pray everyone involved is safe/healthy. The car is just a car.

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I watched all 4 of the videos on this car but didn't see any information on it after the epoxy coat. I just wondered if they were able to save it.
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Wonder what the Shelby tags and vins/vin plate looked like after the fire ?
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When the shock towers buckle and squeeze the engine, its past time to call it a day. Its a UNIBODY car, how could you ever trust any of that structure to reliably perform in the future? I have a customer who redid a Ford Thunderbolt that was in a garage fire. He did a heroic job of retaining as much of the original car as he could, and I wouldn't call it a rebody. He did have a hell of a time getting paint to stick to the overheated sheetmetal. I think he ended up using some kind of aircraft epoxy primer.
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