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Another, less believable, explanation clarifies that the
prototype was loaned to a film crew and that Bertone never got the
car back. Apparently, when Bertone managed to hunt the
prototype down, they found it incomplete in one of the
filming studios.
At the end of
the sixties, an American living in Bitburg,
Germany, bought
the remains of the incomplete car from Bertone for the cost
of processing the paperwork (anything from between $35 to
$125, depending on sources). At that stage the car was
deteriorating outside the factory, missing its clamshell
engine lid, valuable engine, gearbox, seats and interior
trim.
The
new owner restored the car as far as he could, however was
apparently forced to sell the project later on to a Japanese
collector.
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