[MotownMadman]

Dale,
A much more civilized and informative post. As years may pass I am certain you still have the skills to do a 200+ MPH pass in a nitro rocket, as I still have the Neandrethal skills to be called out for a brawl. I prefer these days to excersize my mind vs my body, the latter hurts to much the following day, as well as the fact I have my name carved in one to many jail cells already. You did the best thing you could do with your last post, you beat me up with your mind as I finished your post with learning something. Touche'.

I live about forty minutes from Lansing and would be more then happy to meet you for lunch, if you have time I can take you to have a look at a old Candies and Hughes funny car. Possibly a few people around Detroit you would like to meet if you havent already.

It seems as if there are a lot of politics surrounding the vintage funny car hobby, I can certainly understand as I was slammed into a similar situation about a year back when I located a lost Team Shelby Trans Am car. Everyone has a different sandbox and not everyone is invited to play.

I am not much on politics but I am determined to protect the history of this hobby as a whole across the board. I am still of the opinion that if a car was introduced to the public eye a certain way then it deserves to be restored to original condition no matter who owned it. If a name appears on a car, at some point permission was given to wear that name. That is not to say it allows a vintage car owner to start marketing other items using whatever name may be on the side of the car they currently have in there possession, with a vintage race car the actual "owner" will always be whoever owned or raced the car when it was in the spotlight. Discussions like this sometimes end up hurting the car, politics should be kept from public discussion as the private lives of our current politicians are a good example. Maybe every Ebay auction or advertisment for a vintage car should not be picked apart in public, but left to the parties it concerns.

Email me if you want to meet for lunch.
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