Researching any info re: Paul Cunningham, Competition Cobra privateer

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Originally Posted by Nedsel

Lance Coren was never my expert; I said USC Cowboy's private investigator was using him as his. He provided no proof, but later paperwork did corroborate his discovery of Ann Abiden and Lanse Hasselrig as owners of 2049. There was no evidence of a Paul Cunningham in the DMV files.

Ok, so there is no evidence that Paul owned the car. Evidence shows that Ann is the earliest know owner, but not necessarily the original owner.

Consider this, Shelby American is pursuing a mechanics lien to dispose of the wreck. Here are some possibilities:

1) Ann is the owner as of August 1963. She has a registration renewal application for 1964 that she does not use. Ann finally comes around to Shelby to pick up her car and Shelby American stops pursuing the mechanics lien. Ann can sell the wreck to Lanse.

2) Ann is the owner as of August 1963. She has a registration renewal application for 1964 that she does not use. Shelby American goes through with the mechanics lien and gets the title for the wreck. Shelby American takes the wreck to the junk yard and get a few bucks. After leaving the car abandoned for months, Ann finally shows up at Shelby American and she is told her car has been sold to the junk yard. Ann goes to the junkyard and repurchases CSX2049 from the junkyard. Ann regains the title as well as a second application to register the wreck for 1964. In this case Ann has 2 1964 applications to register the wreck and uses neither of them. Ann can sell the car to Lanse.

3) Ann is the owner as of August 1963. She has a registration renewal application for 1964 that she does not use. Shelby American goes through with the mechanics lien and gets the title for the wreck. Shelby American takes the wreck to the junk yard and gets a few bucks. Ann never shows up to Shelby American or the junk yard. Ann no longer has the wreck or a valid title to the wreck. Well she still has a a registration renewal application for 1964. In this scenario it is impossible for Ann to sell the wreck to Lanse.

4) Someone other than Ann is the owner as of August 1963, maybe Paul, who knows. Shelby American goes through with the mechanics lien and gets the title for the wreck. Shelby American sells the car either directly to Ann or Ann purchases the wreck from the junkyard that Shelby American sold the wreck to. Ann gets the title to the wreck as well as an initial registration application for 1964 that she never uses. Ann can sell the car to Lanse.

Scenario 4 allows for someone other than Ann to be the owner of the car from August 1963 up until the mechanics lien came through. So it is possible that Paul Cunningham was the owner of the car at the time he was racing it, but there are currently no known documents to support this.