When is the Talladega Museum going to turn the Fake 88 back to its origins as the FIRST Daytona Mule car??

[odcics2]

They have known it wasn't the real deal since 1997, a year BEFORE the real 88, DC-93, was found in 1998 behind Don Whites shop in Keokuk, Iowa.
There's enough vintage pics to do it right.

The way it looks now is ridiculous, since it started off as a 1968 Charger "2x2" car entered in the Firecracker 400 July 4th, 1968.
It has shaved rockers and was lowered so much that Nascar banned it.
It ended up as a test car used at The Chelsea Proving Grounds as seen in the 4 vintage photos.

The car is historically significant as the FIRST Mule car Daytona, but not as the Fake 88.

 

[kiwigtx]

I would say the damage is done and the Museum Admin do not want to lose face over it......so they will let it ride.

Just like the perpetuation of the story that the Wright brothers were the first to achieve heavier than air powered flight.....a feat achieved 9 months earlier by a New Zealander called Richard Pearce.

My grandfather used to tell me about Richard Pearce when I was a young boy....many years before Wikipedia or the Internet was a thing.

Richard William Pearse (3 December 1877 – 29 July 1953) was a New Zealand farmer and inventor who performed pioneering aviation experiments. Witnesses interviewed many years afterwards describe observing Pearse flying and landing a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, nine months before the Wright brothers flew.[3]: 21–30  Ambiguous statements made by Pearse himself make it difficult to date the aviation experiments with certainty. In a newspaper interview in 1909, with respect to inventing a flying machine, he said "I did not attempt anything practical with the idea until 1904".[4]

Biographer Gordon Ogilvie credits Pearse with "several far-sighted concepts: a monoplane configuration, wing flaps and rear elevator, tricycle undercarriage with steerable nosewheel, and a propeller with variable-pitch blades."[5]

Pearse largely ended his early flying experiments about 1911 but pioneered novel aircraft and aero-engine invention from 1933 with the development of his "private plane for the million", a foldable single-engined tiltrotor convertiplane.

 

[odcics2]

Found a photo of it at Petty Enterprises, where the conversion was done.
Note the black by the cone that doesn't go all the way down.
The wing wasn't painted white yet.

 

[Pecos Bill]

Have you offered to do the job?

 

[odcics2]

Have you offered to do the job?

Years ago I sent Tim Wellborn the photos to do it.
I'd do it if I owned the car...