Motion Nova ???????

[mike_c]

Hi Barry,

You may want to listen to the recording from Tony Battaglia that I made when I talked to him again. He was polar opposite of Danny Magalia. He was very clear when he stated the car was never in his shop and he never painted it. He further stated his shop wasn't even open during the time frame of when this car was (supposedly painted per Dan's 14 year research the car was done in late 1968). He further stated he wasn't in the country he was off to war and his shop didn't open until mid 1969. He also made it very clear he didn't do any B/M cars until 1970'S...

Seems like that information which should be able to be verified by business license records and military records sure may contradict one elderly employees memory..

Tony also made it clear he was still in contact with Joel so without his confirmation of the situation you having a former employee's version of it may not hold much weight...

All in all as we talked about, you will need some hard facts to prove this car is what it is claimed to be, especially since the memory pool has been tainted so much with time and the researchers putting twist on peoples memory to "help them" remember the details. As I mentioned to you, once I talked to the people that Dan gave me the information on, there memory was not exactly the same as the way it was presented to me by Dan.

I sent you all the recorded conversations with everyone that I spoke to about the car other than Joel( I Didn't record that), so you can certainly hear there unsolicited testimony. As far as Joel is concerned, as I told you he clearly stated there is no records to lead him to believe that this car has any ties to Baldwin or Motion at all in his files, his letter to Dan clearly also stated it...

Good luck with the continued research and I hope everything works out to be able to tell the truth about the car, but keep in mind its still only a body with no driveline and some of the parts Dan confirmed were added to the car from his treasure hunts over the years such as the hood...

If your going to put things out there for people to look at you may want to put it all out there including the recording and the letters and notes, this would surely help people to draw an un-bias opinion of what really has gone on with the search for the truth about this car.


Mike