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Now that everyone else is telling all, I guess it is time I come clean.

<font color="red"> Chapter two. The 1969 car.

I have known about that car for several years, actually getting to see it while being stored in a shed in KC. In rough shape would be an understatement. I have also have spent considerable time visiting with the guy who first “discovered” the car, which happend to be the same guy, Bob Gibson, who knew of my funny car. As happened with my car, as he was stripping the car with a cheap hardware store chemical stripper, he discovered remnants of a prior paint job and lettering, which led him to believe it might have been one of Dick’s. But because he saw no historical significance in the history of the car, he finished stripping the car, painted it (I believe Blue) and went on about his business, finally selling the car to a racer in Las Vegas. Once again, as with my car, he felt no need to photograph what he saw. I have no reason to doubt what he told me, just think it is ironic the parallels between my car and the ’69.
In the past, there was quite a discussion on here about the ’69 car, and did Valerie have what she said she did, with a lot of the critics coming from the same folks who now say the ’69 is legit and mine is not. When you can some quite a bit of time, check out this thread.
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/show...0/fpart/1/vc/1

The good thing, the ’69 car would be easily to indentify, as the gentleman who worked for Dick in late ’68 through ‘69, who transported the car 1000s of miles as well as worked on it, is alive and well, living it New Mexico. That is Mr. Glenn Powell, who incidentally, was one of the sYc’s guests at SCR8. He has told me on more then one occasion he would be glad to look at the car and give his opinion.







Chapter three. The legal issues

First, in regards to the rights to the DH mark. If I had wanted control of the mark, I could have done so very easily. You see, when we first met, sometime in late 1999 or early 2000, I am the one who advised Valerie that she needed to register the mark, and GAVE her the money to do so, with no strings attached. I did this because I had learned the hard way about registered trademarks with the Yenko mark. Even though I had received written permission from the Yenko family to use the Yenko name, they could not give me permission to use the Yenko name in commerce, as a guy in Texas held those rights. Unfortunately I was unaware that there was a DHPC still operating in New Mexico, owned by Dick’s sister Betty Hall and her husband Charles. Betty is in poor health and Charles passed away not too long ago. The business is now being ran by their son Rick. Rick and Valerie have been engaged in a long running dispute, over several issues, including his rights to use the DHPC name in conjunction with his business, Their disagreement has entered the legal system, where, unless a compromise can be reached out of court, a Federal judge will decide things. My involvement in the case, as with other sYc members, has been as a friend to Rick. Unless I am called as a witness, I am not an actual part of the suit. It is because of our friendship with Rick, and the other legal action you are about to read about, that several sYc members, and their cars, have been bashed on the DH site.



Chapter 4, the Gibb trademark.

To me this is the most important issue, at least to our hobby that needs to be brought out into the open. A while back, it was reported on this site that Valerie Harrell had applied for the trademark rights to ALL things related to Fred Gibb Chevrolet. If approved, Valerie would have complete control over whom, and how the Gibb mark could be used. Anyone wanting to use the Gibb mark would need Valerie’s permission, including Helen Gibb, the city of LaHarpe, the sYc, etc. As soon as this was posted, I was swamped with calls, emails and PMs from folks wanting to know what could be done to prevent this. I assured everyone I would do some checking, which I did. At this past Vettefest, Helen and I had a nice visit about this. Helen, realizing just how damaging this could be to the Gibb name (look at what Valerie and friends have done to the DH mark), asked if the sYc would help her retain the rights to the Gibb mark, one she had been using for over 40 years. After checking with a few friends, we agreed to support Helen, as we felt it was the right thing to do. So “yes”, the sYc is directly involved in a legal issue, but over the Gibb mark, not the Dick Harrell mark.
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