HM --- The black paint that is evident on the door jambs could either be the original paint that Chrysler put on in 68 or could it be the black that the car was POSSIBLY painted while it was in Mt. Kisco?????.
I am really glad they took the incentive to tape up that original door sticker. You look at it today, it doesn't really fit the condition with the rest of the car because it looks old & a little beat up. But I'd rather have the original on there looking like that rather than a shiney new decal any day. For those that don't know what this decal says:
"This vehicle was not manufactured for use on public roads, streets, or highways, and as such does not conform to motor vehicle safety standards".
For the past while, I've been wondering if I should post the pictures on the net for all the world to see of the restoration of my car. I decided to do it, because I've got nothing to hide with this car, & it's really cool that someone went to this extreme back in the 80's to restore a car. I'd even go out on a limb & say it's probably the first Hurst car to go through something like this, as they just didn't have much of a following back then. Very few people had interest in these things, and for the most part just saw them as beat up old race cars of no real significance. They had a very small following back then, but for those of us that did see they were something out of the norm, it's what I call pure dedication to these old war horses. It's this dedicatilon from people such as Tim Hennessey that "pioneered" the returned interest of these cars.
I'm going to be posting pictures of the complete restoration process this car went through when Tim Hennessey owned it in the 80's. These have never been on the internet before. Maybe they'll help someone in the future.
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