Some echoes with the GM dream cars
The fact that some employees supposed to destroy it couldn't bear to do it
reminds me of the story told by historian Mike Lamm about the GM employees told to take various dream cars down to the wrecking yard. Some couldn't bear to do it and took the car home but then had to hide it for 40 years because if they ever took it out of the garage they'd be charged with theft. Finally when Joe Bortz started his Blue Seude shoes car collection to promote his restaurant, he began getting phone calls pleading to take the car away, so now he has more than 20 dream cars, some of which are worth millions.
Legally I wonder if Ford could reclaim the car? I think not because once they "scrapped it" and got a tex credit for the write off, they relinquished their ownership right--a battle GM once fought over the XP-819, a rear engined Corvette that they gave to Smokey Yunick who cut it in half but someone bought the halves, reunited them and sold the car at auction
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