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Originally Posted by Mr70

For those who are recently new to this site,this Funny Car was talked about extensively day & night,night & day,over & over & over again about 15 years ago on here.
I mean it was relentless and mind dumbing how this car was the center of discussion with so many people & at car shows/functions back then.
This site & another site,(that no longer exists),were promoting it and de-bunking it back & forth.
Lines were drawn,camps were made,and people were banned on both sides.
You could try a search on here,but that was 3 website owners ago and think they have been deleted,cause they got ugly and not professional.

At the time I was WAY more into WW2 gun collecting but had a 1969 Camaro and enjoyed the car sites some. I didn't come here but heard about the drama on another Camaro site. From what I've learned...the above is actually well put...

I went back to try and find info on the car and asked a few friends who were more into old drag cars back then what the story was. When I brought it up they laughed...said it was a shix show which could have been avoided if people just looked at the info. Ultimately though it helped the hobby.

It seems the car was never vetted by the hobby when the former owner of this site "debuted" it. Guys just assumed he had what he claimed and didn't bother to research it...probably because the car owner was their friend and the website owner.

Another group of guys sad it wasn't the car and provided photo evidence...One of the other sites became the "it isn't real," camp and this site was the "it is real," one. Sort of like the Hatfield and McCoy's.

The owner refused to listen to reason or any discussion which caused more animosity.

Things got super personal with a lot of personal attacks on people who didn't tow the line and agree it was real or who were trying to understand what the car was. The attacks went both ways. Eventually there were post on the "it isn't real" site showing in detail why it wasn't real and folks behind the scenes started to realize the owner was full of BS.

People lost friendships or acquaintances over it and it eventually filtered out of the sites and into other car collecting. Hell it even made discussion among gun collectors at a show I was at...a lot of gun guys collect cars

Once the dust settled people realized the car was fake and actual documentation and photos became more important.

Agreed it is a shame no one has been able to figure out what car it actually is.