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Originally Posted by mrmustang
Cool story about your son's Mustang II.
However, you must have misunderstood the person you spoke with as this car is well known, and was never under wraps, hidden forever, or recently uncovered. 
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Yea, I'm a little confused myself now. This is the story he told me. He said that the car was basically stolen from Ford by one of the people who helped design it, because he feared it would end up in the crusher which evidentally happens a lot (he said they can't possibly store all the prototypes and thats what happens to them). Everyone had thought that this IS what had happened to it so it wasn't alarming when it disappeared. Like I said, it went into a storage unit and the guy built a brick room around it.
Many years later he stopped paying rent on the unit and the owner found the brick room and started to break it apart not knowing what was inside. One of the bricks fell through the back window and broke it (I don't see a back window in your car). When he realized what he found he asked FORD if they wanted it back and FORD declined for whatever reason back then.
Car ended up in the hands of a doctor for many, many more years later and then he went to sell it on Hemmings. Someone from FORD saw it and literally sent a guy with a trailer to pick it up right then and there, while the other hand was picking up the phone to call the person and let them know they were coming for the car.
Unless this is another prototype (NOS) that nobody has seen yet. When I go I'll have to watch for it and ask him to retell me the story and see if this is the same car or not. I could have it wrong, like I said he talked on and on and touched on so many different cars and the history of FORD, he was a wealth of knowledge.