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BAGS of cash.
The 1970 Mach, 428 car.  I'm guessing there is no heat shield.  The tube connecting the air cleaner snorkel to the heat shield appears to be installed 180 degrees off.  Maybe I'm seeing things. 

Very Sorry this happened.
Hope the occupants are OK.  I'd suggest getting an accident attorney and get a complete physical.   All four corners of the car appear to have damage.  Ouch. 

Mine didn't cancel.   But the policy didn't have the MCA discount.  And was up, IIRC, about 10 percent.   I called, got a very nice person on the phone and she applied the discount and sent me new emails to link and sign.  I guess I was looking at the prior emails and signed stuff.  A week latter she let me know I'd NOT signed. 

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But, did you have the one with the shelby on the cover?

      Roy

Yes
Got some 1960's Playboys and there are Shelby Mustang adds in those. 

We had lots of those Texaco maps.  Dad was career USAF so we traveled a lot by car.  All were probably tossed over the years when a new one was handed to my parents on the next trip. 

That TSB....Ford-Speak.  It states 4 quarts IN THE PAN.  Then it states to up that to 6 and must be meaning in the pan again (not counting the almost a quart in the FL1 filter), but then says 7 if you are changing the oil and filter (Standard oil change maintenance).  Then it states to even add yet another (so 8 ) if you have the SCJ Oil Cooler.    Personally, I don't drive the CJ that hard and use 6 when doing the yearly Oil and Filter change.  Ford seems to be saying we/I should be doing 7 quarts(I don't have the cooler). 
It's been running with 6 quarts at Oil and Filter change time, for about 30 years. I put a scratch mark on the dip stick for the "6 quart Oil & Filter changed" mark.   
Wish they'd done it with a spread sheet with one column for "oil and filter change" and another for "Oil ONLY change". 

R.I.P.

To the OP, have you first gone by and told the painter the issue?  That they MUST find that original plate and return it?  Then tell them you will return the next day for it.  That gives them 24 hours to tear the shop apart and find it.  Then if you return the next day and they don't have it, proceed to file a police report and hire an attorney, notify the registrar and all these other steps.  Give that shop one chance to do the right thing.  Make no statements to the paint shop other than you expect it back and a time frame.  No "I'll hire" or "I'll call the police".  Just "return the plate by this time tomorrow".  Don't show you hand.  Call and speak to an attorney now, get that person lined up. If they don't return it, say nothing.  Proceed to the parking lot and call the police.  As soon as you file the police report, in that shops parking lot, then call the attorney and let them know the steps.  The Police Report number often takes 24 hours to be assigned, but that is a question for the office and detective assigned. 
The paint shop owners head will probably look like a kids spinning top by that point.  They will know they just screwed with the wrong person. 

......OR, do you perhaps mean Rick Nagel out of the DFW area?  He was a real estate wheeler-dealer who bought up a lot of the racing pedigree stuff in the late 1980's, was going to open a museum. 

Nagel had a truck brake business. He scammed a lot of people to donate stuff to his museum. Being another Texas snake oil salesman he and CS got along well. He had connections in Mexico and was able to find a lot of race cars that had gone south. He found the Titus/Ward Camaro/Firebird TA car. Rick decided to buy it. Getting it from Mexico to the US was a long ordeal. It seemed each week he'd call for another 5 grand to pay off someone - added about 20 grand to the car. Jon Ward came and looked at it when it arrived. His comment was "OH S**T you found it". He had built and sold a replica as the original.
There were about 75 posters printed up for the museum with CS and a bunch of cars. A rare piece today.

Thanks.  I do now remember his business was brakes.  But he also had (low) rent houses.  Ton's of talk of the museum and donations and such.  He had cars stashed at those houses and taking that photo was when my friend helped move some of the cars.  He bought a lot of cars but then it fell apart.   I seem to recall perhaps in the mid to late 1980's and he showed up with a freshly received 1965 GT350 just out of Mexico.  Was on a flat open trailer.   Was that perhaps an R model he'd found?  I guess by the late 1980's the museum went poof and the cars were gone.  I think some had to be returned to owners. 

https://obits.nj.com/us/obituaries/southjerseytimes/name/larry-zane-obituary?id=11134183

I believe the R model and the GT40 came from another eccentric - Doc Recknagel. I understand that was a whole other crazy story when Zane and our Randy G. picked those up.

Was this perhaps "Doc" out of Oklahoma?  Late 1980's, had some nice cars.  Was a dentist or a podiatrist.  Showed up at the Mid-America one year with an 18-wheel car hauler with his toys on it.  Then had a few college coeds to "polish" the cars.

OR, do you perhaps mean Rick Nagel out of the DFW area?  He was a real estate wheeler-dealer who bought up a lot of the racing pedigree stuff in the late 1980's, was going to open a museum.  He would operate the cars. He brought a Daytona and a GT40 to Texas Motor Speedway (the original one) one year for the Texas Shelby show.  I've got a photo of the two cars on the track and then one of Shelby climbing out of the Daytona after a few laps.  A great friend of mine assisted in moving some of Nagel's cars for a photo shoot.  My friend said the cars were stashed in garages of the rental homes Nagel had and my friend mentioned some were in "uncomfortable" neighborhoods. 

I remember hearing the Zane name.

Doc Recknagel is/was a dentist in OK. His son still is.

Thanks.  I couldn't remember the last name.  He seemed to be a nice guy.  We were standing around the parking lot of the hotel in Tulsa, probably 1981/2/3 time frame, bench racing.  Heard a large diesel and someone crack a joke about a lost truck driver.  Then we heard "PSSSTttttt...PSSSSStttttt".  We looked at each other and someone said "air-brakes?".  We wandered around the corner to find a 18 wheeler car hauler with a few shelby's and a drag car on it.  "Guess Doc made it....". That was when many of us were driving them, or maybe an open flatbed trailer, to the meets.   

https://obits.nj.com/us/obituaries/southjerseytimes/name/larry-zane-obituary?id=11134183

I believe the R model and the GT40 came from another eccentric - Doc Recknagel. I understand that was a whole other crazy story when Zane and our Randy G. picked those up.

Was this perhaps "Doc" out of Oklahoma?  Late 1980's, had some nice cars.  Was a dentist or a podiatrist.  Showed up at the Mid-America one year with an 18-wheel car hauler with his toys on it.  Then had a few college coeds to "polish" the cars.

OR, do you perhaps mean Rick Nagel out of the DFW area?  He was a real estate wheeler-dealer who bought up a lot of the racing pedigree stuff in the late 1980's, was going to open a museum.  He would operate the cars. He brought a Daytona and a GT40 to Texas Motor Speedway (the original one) one year for the Texas Shelby show.  I've got a photo of the two cars on the track and then one of Shelby climbing out of the Daytona after a few laps.  A great friend of mine assisted in moving some of Nagel's cars for a photo shoot.  My friend said the cars were stashed in garages of the rental homes Nagel had and my friend mentioned some were in "uncomfortable" neighborhoods. 

I remember hearing the Zane name.

Thanks for the Kroil reminder.   And I was assuming the rubber line was being replaced. 
+1000 on good line wrenches. 

I don't know if this will work but I've seen some videos of people applying heat to old rusted fittings.  Then melting in Crayon's.  Then apply some heat again and apply the wrenches to see if it breaks loose. 
But see if others have better ideas. 

Thank you Rick and Colleen for all the service over the years.