Long-lost 82 LeMans racer found
 

Sorry if it's a repost, but I searched. Didn't see anything and thought I'd put it up to make sure....

https://www.hagerty.com/articles-vid...ns-racer-found

its interesting i did some digging, and it appears as though they picked it up around October of last year (off the top), and it actually might have come out of the body shop already!

i do not think Mr Amemyia has built the engine yet, which is what i was looking for, he has a blog

there is more here, https://www.rx7club.com/1st-gen-gene...vered-1133642/

It's very strange to me when high dollar race cars get "lost". How would they get lost? Someone owns them. If said perosn owns such a glorious piece of machinery, they know what they have. If they were to sell it, it will get sold at it's value. Which would still be a considerable amount.

racing at that level is very expensive. corporate expensive. governments sponsor race teams expensive. with corporations and governments comes bureaucracy. iconic race cars get lost in bureaucracy.

i have the impression that the guys who went to get the car (mr amemyia, et all) knew where it was....

the person who owns/owned it may not have known its value, it is just an old race car. most famous example:
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cul...rrari-250-gto/

Just A Car Guy: Ferrari 250GTO out to pasture for 2decades after doing time in a high school auto shop class, donated by a former race car team owner

Thing that a lot of enthusiasts don't get is that almost all old race cars were just, as far as the people who own them were concerned, old race cars. "This didn't win whatever we had in mind... it's a sunk cost and nobody is going to want to buy something that didn't win... enh, just stick it in a warehouse or crush it." Or the cars get sold to another less funded team who hack them up to fit whatever new things they're trying to do, and then get passed along and so on... on until they get crashed too badly to repair, or reach someone who doesn't get around to it and sticks them in a "I'll get around to it" warehouse.

The whole idea that old race cars are priceless collectibles is a fairly recent thing, probably because there's more and more places to vintage race stuff now.