Whoops....my son painted the "HALO" VIP gift car....can it be recovered?

My son painted the “HALO” edition VIP Mustang Boss 302, as well as the ‘normal’ edition of the same car. I went into ‘my designs’ and deleted the design he downloaded over the HALO livery, but the livery is now gone. I did the same for a few cars that he repainted that were LCE versions (and were also renamed as slightly different cars). Those liveries were recoverable.

I checked the “GIFTS” messages and my husband either deleted the message after he downloaded the gift car, or else maybe it goes away on its own once read? I don’t know.

Is there a way to recover the livery, and is there a way to ‘protect’ the two holiday liveries so that they can also be recovered if they are painted over?

If a mod in considering re-gifting the car (not asking or expecting, just thinking out loud) it’s NOT on my profile, but on their profile, RacingDadTexas.

Can it be recovered? He really liked that design, he was playing around changing car designs and didn’t realize it could be lost…

Like the Holiday livery cars
http://forums.forza.net/turn10_postst905_Is-there-anyway-to-retrieve-the-Holiday-Livery.aspx
once the livery has been removed it cannot be recovered, and Turn 10’s policy has been to not resend gift cars. You may find a duplicate livery from a community member by searching available designs for that car.

I will try that…thanks Manteo Max!

Also, your checklist for FM5 has been very helpful for us in keeping up with what cars have been bought. Thanks!