A guy that traded at my Dad's service station in east Texas stopped by once and told him about an old race car down in Kilgore that he thought was for sale if Dad was interested. Dad said he was and the guy got back to him a couple of weeks later with the owners phone number and address. We went down to see it the following Friday. A nice, well preserved Lotus 18, for $3,300 (this was in 1990 if I remember). Dad offered him $3,000 and the guy said no. Well, we told the guy we'd think on it over the weekend. Dad called him Monday morning to tell him we'd go ahead at take it at $3,300. The guy said he sold it over the weekend for his asking price. Turns out the enclosed trailer it was sitting in was included in the deal. Here is a car that has been sitting for years (decades), unknown and not for sale. We go look at it and it gets sold on the same weekend. Well it bothered me as to why such a car would be way out in east Texas so I started digging (this the early days of the internet). Turns out, there was an "international" race at the Kilgore airport in the early 60's and this car had participated in the event. Owned and driven by Phil Hill
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