Interesting - I'd never thought about them multiplying! - JDK

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Interesting - I'd never thought about them multiplying!

JDK

In Reply to: RE: "like 50 known to be still running?" posted by b.l.zeebub on July 27, 2015 at 07:17:15:

In the 1980s a friend got involved the the restoration of a D type Jaguar. It had been severely crashed twice in it's life - killing it's original owner in the first one.
The car was rediscovered in Hong Kong when a Jag buff was searching around the old GP track. He found an old locally made sports car with what appeared to be a D type engine in it. He wrote down the engine numbers and photographed it and came back to Sydney and did the research. It was the engine from a known D type that crashed in the British GP, killing it's owner/driver, was purchased as a wreck and restored and raced in the Hong Kong GP where it was crashed again and disappeared. He went back to Hong Kong and tracked down the builder of the car he saw, and he found the remains of the mangled D type under a house not far from the old track.
He bought the lot and shipped it back to Sydney where the 5 year restoration took place. The race car was stripped and the original D type engine, transmission and full suspension was recovered. The D type chassis was a write-off. He hired a retired airframe fitter to measure up an unrestored D type and make an almost complete new chassis and skin. It was certified as a genuine D type with original engine number and chassis number even though the chassis and body was totally remanufactured from scratch.
It was an amazing car. Not an extra D type though. But definitely brought back from the dead!

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John K

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Topic - 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO sells for a world record auction price of $38.1 million! - LWR 06:07:56 07/27/15 (7)

why park such a vehicle in your highrise apt livingroom when you can have one doing this: - Green Lantern 07:52:56 07/28/15 (0)

with that kinda scratch you could've bailed out the company back in the 80s - Green Lantern 07:26:02 07/28/15 (0)

RE: 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO sells for a world record auction price of $38.1 million! - FenderLover 06:26:17 07/27/15 (4)

RE: "like 50 known to be still running?" - b.l.zeebub 07:17:15 07/27/15 (3)

RE: "like 50 known to be still running?" - painter27 17:37:10 07/27/15 (0)

Interesting - I'd never thought about them multiplying! - JDK 16:36:07 07/27/15 (0)

RE: "like 50 known to be still running?" - FenderLover 09:02:06 07/27/15 (0)

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Interesting - I'd never thought about them multiplying! - JDK 16:36:07 07/27/15 (0)

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