Anyone familiar with this race car?

[Russell Ashley]

I didn't want to post this in the truck forum since it isn't a truck. This car ran in several of the old 24 hour races, and like most old race cars it has been painted and re-striped several times over the years. It is now somewhat historically significant and the owner wanted it returned back to it's original and most famous appearance as it will be shown in some of the upcoming concourse type shows, so they brought it to my son's shop to be painted and striped. They want it to be as accurate as possible but the only thing they could give him to go by is a model that was made of the car. This is a pic he sent me of what he is doing with it. He was told that this car is very valuable. I've never followed this type of racing so I am not familiar with this car and just wondering if anyone here might be.