The story and infamous history of the F-88 is far from being fully told.
John Hendricks, Discovery Channel, purchased this car at the Barrett.
Their is a 20 year, or so, lost history of this particular concept car.
Harley took concept cars to 5 different race tracks.
Many do not know that Harley's son raced in Early SCCA.
I think>> lord help us>> that Harley was with Senator Barry Goldwater and Ben Harris, were in Wacky Arnolts private tower at Sebring for this race.
Harley also took concept cars to the Inaugural race at Road America, if one reflects back to the link in Ben's Story, you will see that Ben was on the National board of the SCCA and was nominated as the official flagman of the race.
Two other races, Harley's son raced at them and Harley brought the concept cars along,these were other tracks Ben officiated at and helped found.
Another was Watkins Glen, their is a painting of Ben on the Pole there, reflect back to Ben's story and a link at the bottom of the story.
The Red concept car is the one that Hendrick's curator believes was destroyed in a engine fire mishap, so this story goes at this time.
The F-88,it ended up in boxes and was shipped to California >> to E.L. Cords home, the big question is why.
We are still working on full details, BUT, at this time we believe that the story of why involves, Gordon Buerhig, Harley Earl, Ed Cole, E L Cord, Ben Harris and possibly Barry Goldwater and Wacky Arnolt.
>>Remember Barry's custom Jag from George Barris herein Autopuzzles !!
We have a document displaying that Ben went to GM to pick up a special one off 1956 corvette, Zora, Harley, Cole and the head of GM's motorama cars held a luncheon for Ben.
The special one off corvette for Ben came from the newly opened GM stylist division.
Why and how did all of this happen, this is very deep and also goes into why Kimberly and Ben became Pres and V Pres of the SCCA in it's infant years !!!
This also ties into why Ben and Kimberly were featured in the First Edition of "Sports Illustrated" for racing coverage in 1954.
There is much more to this story, but I felt it was necessary to briefly fill in what we unearthed before this puzzle is set in historical fact..
Another mind tease, Preston Tucker wanted Ben to design a new car for him, we found this in another historical document.
14 never before seen films have surfaced also>> one contains Biggs driving around road America before it was paved>> shaking down the track, was Ben and Kimberly and Arnolt with him?
The above and many other documents (100's), have kept us buried under, this is ALSO why we have not posted more to Ben's unfinished and rough story herein Autopuzzles, sigh !!
John
PS, I am going to forward this topic from Autopuzzles to the curator and Mr Hendricks for the Gateway Museum in Colorado which Mr Hendricks owns., as they are still working on the history of the F-88 .
