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Tom Myl

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Here's Tom Myl's car in the Paint booth at Bucky &Travis Hess Body shop. Travis doing an awesome job on the paint scheme.

I just figured out how to post pictures here. I have a lot of pictures on Tom's car, of its whole career. It never went missing or crashed one of the rarest BO29 Hemi Barracuda around today.

You can follow the build here
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There's one word that describes this restoration. AWESOME!!!!

Good to see another brought back to day 1 status. Tom must be ecstatic.

Looking forward to seeing it in person one day

Travis is a master!!!!

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Not meaning to take anything away from the car, but after what you guys did to bring it back to factory configuration, I'm skeptical that never crashed matters any more.

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Sure is a nice paint job. Well Done!

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It means a lot No fake parts here.
It has all its original fiberglass fenders, front bumper, Hood, radiator support, Glass, Quarters and so on, everything in originals except the floors(because they were cut up) But replace with 68 Barracuda parts car.

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George text Tony another picture of the Barracuda
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It won Indy
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Very few of these factory built cars survived without the modifications that were done to keep them competitive. I believe it was these mods that kept these cars in the limelight of being the iconic badass cars they are today. As far as I am concerned, bringing a legit car back to day 1 status is complementing the people that made that car what it was back then, along with preserving a piece of racing history for many years to come.
Now, if someone retags or rebodys a car that is a whole different matter.

As far as I'm concerned, what identifies a car as what it came off the assembly line as, is it's OE stamping numbers & the panels they were stamped on. The rest is only sheet metal with part numbers.

the car below is a 1971 hemicuda convertible. VERY RARE car
It has been fully restored since because the numbers were still on the cowl & rad cradle ID'ing as one. It has been accepted by very notable, high end collectors as being today a real car. This is an extreme case but just used as an example.

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