{
  "discovery": "car-workspace",
  "ledger_ids": [
    "STD1-001",
    "Unnumbered: source integrity",
    "Unnumbered: executable residue",
    "STD1-007"
  ],
  "confidence": "Confirmed",
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "STD1-001",
      "claim": "The retail disc includes the car working directory, with named models, textures and copy scripts.",
      "tier": "Confirmed",
      "limit": "Describes shipped authoring material; no claim that every file is a complete development source.",
      "type": "Static evidence.",
      "method": "Inspect the named car models, textures and copy scripts on the retail disc; compare palette bytes and disc inventory totals."
    },
    {
      "id": "Unnumbered: source integrity",
      "claim": "The recorded ISO inventory identifies a retail disc with 1,694 files and no nonzero payload in the documented tail-slack sweep.",
      "tier": "Confirmed",
      "limit": "Historical inventory and extraction comparison; the document review does not re-read every ISO sector. Mastering metadata is not a commercial release date.",
      "type": "Static evidence.",
      "method": "Inspect the named car models, textures and copy scripts on the retail disc; compare palette bytes and disc inventory totals."
    },
    {
      "id": "Unnumbered: executable residue",
      "claim": "The recorded executable sweep identifies a Watcom runtime banner but no source paths or debug-symbol residue.",
      "tier": "Confirmed",
      "limit": "A bounded printable-string/PE inspection; absence of readable residue is not proof that the executable contains no dormant code.",
      "type": "Static evidence.",
      "method": "Inspect the named car models, textures and copy scripts on the retail disc; compare palette bytes and disc inventory totals."
    },
    {
      "id": "STD1-007",
      "claim": "The disc’s car directory contains a JUNK folder holding a duplicate THEPAL.BMP.",
      "tier": "Confirmed",
      "limit": "The folder name is original; it does not prove deletion intent.",
      "type": "Static evidence.",
      "method": "Inspect the named car models, textures and copy scripts on the retail disc; compare palette bytes and disc inventory totals."
    }
  ],
  "examined_inputs": [
    {
      "name": "Hot Wheels - Stunt Track Driver.iso",
      "sha256": "82707d3f37ed08c4ce2c39bc28b29942cf7ee746ce67d8d957efea024cd56b80"
    },
    {
      "name": "stunt.exe",
      "sha256": "a938949d705e2e06af80c22bdd76b10b52df811342e5a5b28bc23ba716903850"
    }
  ],
  "method": "Inspect the named car models, textures and copy scripts on the retail disc; compare palette bytes and disc inventory totals.",
  "verification": "Historical research and audit records support the statements above. This assembly verifies mapping and media hashes; it does not rerun the excavation or establish a new gameplay observation.",
  "scope": "Reviewed publication summary. Private research notes, personal review records and raw game files are not included. Input hashes identify the 1998 source; they are not independent proof of each conclusion."
}