The guys from the museum said Miss Budweiser sat outside Indianapolis Speedway for several years, but in a covered area. So the original finish stayed intact. The speedway then put it in a warehouse. They described it as like the giant warehouse from Indiana Jones. They searched and searched and finally located it in the warehouse. Then they had to research ownership on it. It still belonged to Little.
They called Little and told him about it. He said “I still own that?” and gave it to the hydroplane museum.
Whole process took like 6 years to find it, research it, get it to museum.

This link should take you to my pic:

Miss Bud