I refently read the book RARE FINDS, the second by Texas photojournalist Jerry Heasley who of late specializes in telling the stories of barn finds. And in there he tells a story of the sale of a boat business belonging to the mother of ex-racer Salt Walther. As he tells it, a guy assisting with the sale went around the building and in back found a GT40. he made a separate deal to buy the remains of the car buried in mud and later sold it and it has since re-appeared as a running complete car (I can't find the SN now but I could with some research).
But after I read the Heasley book when doing research I found on some site there was the contention that
1.)the guy who found the remains had tried first to sell parts but didn't say he had a complete chassis
2.)the car was subsequently combined with a Ford GT chassis from Safir
So I was wondering if this car has been discussed here before and what the consensus of opinion is--did the digger in the mud find a real car? What is the car considered to be today?
What did it sell for at the last auction?
I am not trying to disparage a car but I was annoyed when Heasley didn't tell about it being combined with a car made not in the 1960s.
PS Not to be confused by the GT40 owned by retired LA fireman who bought a car from
Salt Walther as he lay on his hospital bed. He is in prison now.
But after I read the Heasley book when doing research I found on some site there was the contention that
1.)the guy who found the remains had tried first to sell parts but didn't say he had a complete chassis
2.)the car was subsequently combined with a Ford GT chassis from Safir
So I was wondering if this car has been discussed here before and what the consensus of opinion is--did the digger in the mud find a real car? What is the car considered to be today?
What did it sell for at the last auction?
I am not trying to disparage a car but I was annoyed when Heasley didn't tell about it being combined with a car made not in the 1960s.
PS Not to be confused by the GT40 owned by retired LA fireman who bought a car from
Salt Walther as he lay on his hospital bed. He is in prison now.