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What if I told you.....

posted 9 years ago by BigJCP
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....that their tip process has so many strings attached to it, that it is hard to believe that ANYONE is willing to submit a tip...even for the slight chance of receiving "up to" a $10,000 reward...

They make you agree to appear on their show if they want you to, basically threaten you with the police if they feel it is necessary, and straight up tell you that your info will not be kept private, and will be publicly exposed....

I understand that they don't want anonymous tips, but to tell you that your name, and private information will be made public is a little over the top in my opinion.

I guess they don't really care about finding some of the "lost" items.

[–] kjguhl 9 years ago

Ooh, what were you going to tip them off about??

[–] BigJCP 9 years ago

James Dean's Porsche Spyder...or what's left of it. It is pretty much common knowledge that the crew chief sold the engine and transaxle off to another race team...and that car, (or those cars...whichever the case) had also wrecked at some point, which is where the "cursed car" myth came about. It's no oddity for race cars to crash...especially ones with bias ply tires.

The body was sent to Barris' shop to see what could be done with it (his shop had done the lettering, and numbers and stripes, so it naturally went back to it's body shop...However...I don't believe that he ever bought the car, or took any kind of legal ownership of it...so the whole deal of it being stolen from him is bunk, in my personal opinion.

It's also fairly common knowledge where the car is now, and who owns it...and no big deal for the shows' researchers to find out where and who.

I would have told them the specifics, if it wasn't for the whole "signing over your firstborn, and giving up two fingers from your dominant hand" deal...

Some of the stories on there are a stretch...I still watch the show though...

[–] kjguhl 9 years ago

Very interesting since the car has such notoriety, and too bad about how they want you to sign your life away. I thought I had heard that car was in a museum, but I must be confusing it with something else.