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Old 11-30-2009, 10:27 AM
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Wow, we already have conspiracy theories and misplaced lineage, and they haven't even delivered the first car.

To add to Dean's comments:

The molds in use by the new Hurricane in Iowa were originally created by Jerry Connolly, founder of Component Craft, located in Bedford Texas in the early 90's. I have personally spoken at length with Jerry about the process he used to create the molds. Based on feedback from Jerry and withstanding some additional research, we are hopeful to comment on which CSX car was used as the donor the coming weeks.

The main body mold shown briefly in the opening sequence of the video linked above (and pictured below while still at the now-defunct Hurricane Texas in 2008) was taken directly from an original CSX car in Dallas and are the exact same molds used to make the original Component Craft cars (thought to be around 100 in total production) and the 122 Hurricanes under Arps & Burroughs. To my knowledge Hurricance Texas did not complete a sellable body.



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