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Just for fun this is the Marnita built from the salvaged parts of 1029, it is the blue car in the back ground

To expand on what I have posted I am not sure if the wreck of 1029 or just the parts off the wreck ended up at RRR Motors in Homewood Il, would have been around 1968, I do remember going with my father to look a wrecked and stripped race car at a farm in Indiana, I always thought it was...

True, after the LeMans wreck, #1029 ended up at RRR Motors , Gene Hamlin and Bill Schweiger, picked the bones and used the parts to build the Marnita F/A F 5000 car. Long story short Bob Ash bought the Marnita and has most of / if not all of the usable salvaged original parts from 1029

after 1029 was destroyed at lemans all of the remaining parts were purchased by Gene Hamlin and William Schweiger, and used to construct a homebuilt tube framed Formula 5000 car called the Marnita which was completed in 1970.The Marnita competed in scca f/a and F/5000 races for several years and...

after 1029 was destroyed at lemans all of the remaining parts were purchased by Gene Hamlin and William Schweiger, and used to construct a homebuilt tube framed Formula 5000 car called the Marnita which was completed in 1970.The Marnita competed in scca f/a and F/5000 races for several years and...