Yeah, i did the google thing a little while ago but it wasn't until just recently when i got a pm from Dat Dirty Rat that i had actually saw the car restored. Speaking for the car itself, it came out super damn nice. As for it being Buddy's car, i had read what Mr.Grigg's wrote before, and that pretty much summed it up for me a while ago. Sad state of affairs in my OWN personal opinion but this kind of stuff happens more often than i'm sure we all know. The best thing Buddy left us was his music anyway...not his possessions even if they are interesting...they are still just objects........aside from his Strat anyway Tony
You know what gets me about the whole thing? Sorry to sound like a crook, but why didn't Clements even try to do a good job of faking it? You can get, or make, stainless steel VIN tags that are blank, and then stamp the right number. Spotwelders aren't cheap, but they're a drop in the bucket compared to what a real Holly car would be worth - so why didn't he spend the little extra time/money to spotweld on a stainless tag so that the glued on aluminum tag didn't scream "FAKE!"? On the frame numbers, 'wrong' numbers can be welded over, ground down, and metalfinished so that they weren't there. Then the 'right' number can be stamped on. There were still other elements of the story that didn't quite match up, the 1960 home video for instance, but it would have been much harder to DISprove his claim. ****, this guy isn't even a good fraud.
You would think so, especially owning that yard at the time. He "restored" Chevrolets so one would think he would have done things more correct. I've only seen the car in person once, and that was after it was re-restored. Apparently quite a bit of corners were cut the first go around.
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