trenchgun

I know this is the C5 forums, but I thought you guys might be interested in a story I just found on Neil Armstrong's 1967 Corvette...

http://www.carprousa.com/follow-up-n...e-car-pro-news

http://blogs.insideline.com/straight...e-on-ebay.html

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Chevr...73d0ec00#v4-43

http://blogs.insideline.com/straight...20corvette.jpg





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Chilliwack vettes

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

GPGG70

Thats a neat story, but I think someone should restore it back to original.

jrose7004

Needs to be restored!

f6john

This is the crazyness that abounds in the car culture. Bring it back to the way it was when traded in by Neal Armstrong???? Turn down a quarter mil for a car that wouldn't bring that much fully restored sans the Armstrong connection. As most people say it's your car, do what you like! I think the car (any C2 for that matter) deserves to be restored. JMHO.

Vetteman Jack

Thanks for the links. Interesting stories on that car.

Dale002

It's a very nice car as is in my eyes and wished I own it.

allred

I wonder where the other two 'Vettes are?

If I remember correctly, NASA gave Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins each a 'Vette.

Red, White and Blue. I guess Neil Armstrong got the blue one.


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s'noJob

I wouldn't give a plugged 1849 Double Eagle $20 Gold Piece for it.
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k0ts

Here is a nice one.. http://www.joefishburn.com/67vette.html

Too-Fast

Dale002

Nasa didn't give them anything, it was a dealer in Melbourne. Nasa did not let the dealeship give it to them and made them charge Neil a $1 for the vette and a family car. It was only a loan type deal and he only had it for a few months. Never the less he had it and drove it. Title never had Neil or any of the other guys name on it,If I remember correctly.

cor28vettes

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=2830111

StephenSLR

You don't have to look far - all's been discussed in the C2 forum, it's now in Florida and will be preserved, not restored.

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c1-a...orvette-4.html

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JWG

Cool story. I hope it finds a good home.

Tom/99

It was Jim Rathmann Chevrolet Cadillac. I lived three blocks from that dealership. I remember seeing, the black and gold 1969's that the astronauts used.

StephenSLR

After General Motors gifted astronaut Alan Shepard with a white 1962 Corvette to congratulate him on becoming the first American in space, Indianapolis 500 winner and Florida Chevrolet-Cadillac dealer Jim Rathmann came up with the idea to offer Shepard's fellow fliers Corvettes of their own.

Rathmann negotiated a special lease arrangement to put the Mercury astronauts into the cars. For $1 per year, the spacemen could drive the latest model Corvette and then trade it in for a new one.

The lease program was popular with the astronauts and proved to be good exposure for Chevrolet, so it continued into the Gemini and Apollo programs.

http://www.space.com/15564-neil-arms...n-results.html

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