Pretty cool to not only get the car back but all that you also parted with! Congrats, look forward to seeing more of it!
When I sold Baby Blue in 1991, I passed along every date coded original part (fuel pump, master cylinder, exhaust manifolds, alternator) that had been removed from the car, along the with the original owner's manual, signed by the original owner, and the IBM punch card. Wisely, I kept all the photos, and the original maintenance records, passing on photocopies to the buyer.
From the day I passed the title, I never heard from the buyer again, and 22 years later when the car came back to me, with the exception of the manifolds, anything that wasn't bolted to it was gone.
Bob Miller, on the other hand, became a close friend after he sold me the car in '83, and thirty years later, he passed additional artifacts on to me, such as the original keys, and copies of the time slips from Baby Blue's racing days in the 1970s. We've made the trip to Carlisle every year for a decade to tell the car's story, and this will continue this summer with the the car's new owner. To be able to recover the mementos from earlier days, as well as the car itself, is truly a gift.
Bob Miller, left, and myself in 2013, the day I bought Baby Blue for the second time.
