Tucker Fan 48 wrote:Maybe the hot air finally got out of the convertible story and caused the tent to collapse. I wonder if the convertible
gets destroyed does Cole have it insured for 5 million?
Thought the post by mframe4646 was interesting. If it's true, the information about the doors tells a lot "the doors
look to have been wire welded when stretched out- He had some pretty advanced technology to have wire welded them up"
Maybe it is because the doors weren't done until years later when they had the technology and like everything else about
the car they were never convertible doors while at the Tucker plant.
To answer the $5,000,000 insurance question; NO. I have insured a few care through Hagerty and you must provide all receipts and show real verifiable proof of a cars provenance as to it's historical value. I had to do this with an early #'s '69 Dodge Daytona I restored years ago, before they would even "write" the policy. The car was rare, but they would "only" value it at $500,000, not "fair market value", that some of the other's were being sold as high as $900,000! Same goes for ANY Mustang that is claimed to a genuine Shelby car, say an early '68 GT 500, with any sort of history, must be authenticated through Shelby America! With a fairly decent amount of clones and "tribute" cars, documentation is key to protect the industry from fraudster's flooding the market with some very convincing fakes! I have seen some pretty good ones, but with a little investigating, any cars true history can be found. Almost all cars have a dupicate VIN stamped backwards underneath inside the bodyshell or frame. Accessable through body hole and plugs, they can be read with a mirror. I wonder if there is the actual hidden number stamped on the Con-Vera-Tible somewhere ....I guess we will never know, will we? Now, as to the door question, you can clearly see in several of the restoration/con-struction photos that the doors were in fact cut, stretched and welded back together. I have welded many quarter sections, doors, hoods and the like together, and with the skill of many years experience, welding, hammering the joint and grinding, a repair can be almost impossible to find.
