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141 Research Contributions Our greatest contribution has been our research and sharing it with the public. Hundreds of one - off and limited production sports cars from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s have now been brought to light with their history and legacy secure in the automotive world. Often times we also find the car too—and we are still finding more cars, documenting these new additions and sharing these with the world to date. Since 2006, Undiscovered Classics has spent more than twenty thousand hours researching, organizing and cataloging cars that have been largely missing from the historical record. The cars were lost, not because they were unimportant or inconsequential, but because of the difficulty of painstakingly organizing a clear picture of what was happening, who was doing it and the photographic evidence of their work. Leaders across the classic car field have recognized our efforts and brought our research, our cars, and our activities to the forefront of the hobby through appearances, exhibitions, publications, tv, multimedia, concours appearances and more. Click Here To Learn How Leaders in the Field View Our Work Click Here T o View Our Media Appearances From 2006 to Present Now, sixteen years from our founding date, we ’ re acknowledged as a leading authority in the area of low - volume handcrafted sports cars and all types of hand - built cars from this period. Here are some of the specific contributions we ’ ve made: • We ’ ve studied and shared the origins of custom cars in the 40s and 50s and released an entire library of “ lost custom car literature ” to the public by collaborating with the team at The Rodder ’ s Journal. Ours was the largest find of lost custom car literature in history. • We ’ ve studied the birth of sports cars in postwar America, and communicated research finding through articles, our website, tv, podcasts, concours appearances and more. • We ’ ve shared the creation or “ birth ” of the belly tank speedster at the dry lakes. To this end we worked with Bill Burke who built the first belly tank in 1946. With Bill in the lead, we created a replica of his first belly tank and debuted it during Bonneville Speed Week, and then later at the NHRA museum in Pomona, California for display, show and education. • We ’ ve brought to light the birth of concept cars in the early 30s—many predating the 1938 Buick Y Job by several years. Our 1937 Gougeon Streamliner, one of the few teardrop aluminum concept cars left from the 30s, helps us take our message and this early history to the public for display and education purposes.