[Mark_C]

I don't think anyone is outright critisizing to car, or the restoration directly, its just an attempt to find out how it was originally made, how much of it was original when the previous, or current owner got it and where it is now. It's only when people step in and either try and deflect the question, or feel the need to stick up for someone else that things start to turn awkward. Lets just stick to asking and answering questions to the best of our ability and eventually everyone will learn something. If we start bickering over that that and the other thing the opportunity to learn something about this car, and the other pilots will be lost.

This car is unique, and beyond being a hand built pre production car it has several oddities about it. I don't think anyone is questioning the realness of the car, we just want to know how it got to where it is today, either now, or back in 1967.

For example the car has an 09B dated cowl tag (ok its been explained it was pulled from a body scheduled for september build), other very low VIN cars have way earlier tags including at least 1 that has an 05B dated tag which line up with the actual dates the pilots were assembled.

This car has a later version trunk lid on it now as the very early cars don't have the holes for the emblems, and it looks like the original substructure in the original pictures may have been hole sawed (later?) to add the deck lid emblems. Because this car was originally wired for 110V power, maybe it had to be returned to Norwood in September(?) to get that wiring removed, maybe it got a new trunklid at that time with the emblem holes at that time. Who knows.

You can't exactly go looking for NOS parts for a pre production car, maybe they are the same, maybe they are not, so saving as much as possible from whatever he had should be admired. Some people don't like seeing welds in the trunk or floor, well when they buy it they can replace the floor pan, it doesn't bother me that much, but then I wouldn't have had the cash to do it anyways.

In the words of the late Rodney King "Can't we all just get along" at least for a while. Ask your questions, give an answer if you know it and we'll all learn something.