[John D]

Maybe I'm incorrect about the "D-88" thing... I'm not a "numbers" guy... And yes, the owner in question is Dean. (He is not a personal friend, but an acquaintance - and I don't want to get him involved by proxy.)

The entire reason for my "piping up" about this particular car is the fact that it is now RUINED. Stripes or no stripes the fact remains that the car was sans stripes in '02.... At or around the time it was folded/spindled/mutilated/probed/inspected and then deemed "The Benchmark" because of it's originality.

Now it has stripes. A major alteration to it's initial assessment of originality. The current owner(s) are still using (and marketing) the car as the "benchmark" when this keystone of reference has been irreparably altered.