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Forum: C3 Parts for Sale/Wanted
07-07-2017, 04:04 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 618
Posted By HistoryBuff

Typo. It's $250. sorry

Typo. It's $250. sorry
Forum: C3 Parts for Sale/Wanted
07-07-2017, 03:59 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 618
Posted By HistoryBuff

Mako Shark I fan? Got painting

Fine art painter now doing a lot of prewar cars has
painting , size 16" x 20" on canvas gallery wrapped (meaning the image winds around the sides of a wooden support hidden frame) of the Mako Shark...
Forum: C1 & C2 Corvettes
09-15-2016, 02:22 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 16,267
Posted By HistoryBuff

It is now four years after that posting, any more news?

I'd like to know when the car may show up restored at a Corvette convention? And has it ever been advertised, with an old ad in
Road & Track, etc? What did the junkyard sell it for? I think the...
Forum: C1 & C2 Corvettes
06-23-2016, 02:04 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 16,267
Posted By HistoryBuff

Anybody have an update on the court battle for '57 SUper Sport from New Mexico?

Last I could find was a 2014 ref. that said John Baldwin spent eight years restoring it or maybe it was eight years in a legal battle regarding the ownership of his 1957 Super Sport. Now it's 2016...
Forum: C1 & C2 Corvettes
01-22-2015, 05:01 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 628
Posted By HistoryBuff

On the 1961 Corvette Gulf Oil racer driven on street in NY state

On the posting regarding the guy with the former Gulf Oil Corvette ('61) driving it on the street and trying to sell it at a swap meet, has it been printed in any article how much he paid for it and...
Forum: C1 & C2 Corvettes
12-11-2014, 12:28 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 2,891
Posted By HistoryBuff

Corvette powered Italian car, in search of

I don't want to buy it..I just want to tell the story of it being found.
"It" is a Bizzarrini, a car made in Italy that came new with a 327 cu. in. Corvette engine mated to a Borg Warner 4 speed....
Forum: C1 & C2 Corvettes
11-12-2014, 04:08 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 537
Posted By HistoryBuff

Rich's Restorations--where are they? Re Super Sport

I am trying to put together a short 3 page history on the '57 Super Sport Corvette show car (white, twin windscreens, brushed metal side inserts, blue stripes nose to tail) wrecked in Albuquerque at...
Forum: C1 & C2 Corvettes
08-03-2014, 02:30 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 2,865
Posted By HistoryBuff

Jordan's son is quoted saying XP700 became Shark

On the website http://www.corvetteblogger.com/2014/07/17/pic-throwback-thursday-bill-mitchells-xp-700-corvette-concept/

Mark Jordan is quoted saying one car became the other, which is what I was...
Forum: C1 & C2 Corvettes
08-03-2014, 02:25 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 874
Posted By HistoryBuff

Kelly Corvette: was it advertised what it sold for?

Sometimes called the Vignale Corvette, built on a solid axle Corvette chassis back in the 1950s for an industrial designer who worked for Brooks Stevens in Wisc. but paid for this on his own. Kept...
Forum: C1 & C2 Corvettes
05-31-2014, 02:58 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 881
Posted By HistoryBuff

The sadness is mostly on 1stowner who deprived himself of enjoying the car

I read a couple stories about it and the sad part is that he thought it better to save the car for someone else(he didn't know who) than enjoy it himself. I have a friend who is babying his '06 Ford...
Forum: C1 & C2 Corvettes
05-30-2014, 08:14 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 881
Posted By HistoryBuff

On '67 big block coupe ex-McNamara out of CO

Maybe everyone saw the story in Hemmings on this recluse's '67 in storage since new
...
Forum: C1 & C2 Corvettes
05-01-2014, 04:32 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 465
Posted By HistoryBuff

The Frenchman's Folly (SR2 look alike)

Back around '73 or so I was in Detroit and driving some interesting car for a week (test car) and started a conversation with a Frenchman named Pierre or Francois or something and he said he had a...
Forum: C1 & C2 Corvettes
05-01-2014, 04:27 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 829
Posted By HistoryBuff

Got a "I was there" answer for part of it

I do recall the name Barney Clark but thought he was a Ford ad man. He is famous for ordering the Mustang station wagon by Intermeccanica
(anybody know where that is?)
Elmore Leonard might have...
Forum: C1 & C2 Corvettes
05-01-2014, 01:21 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 829
Posted By HistoryBuff

SR racer 2294 The Real McCoy

I tried to read about this car but almost every story on the net is the Mecum auction story repeated ad infintum. What I would like to read is the owner history of the car,
who owned it after GM?...
Forum: C1 & C2 Corvettes
04-26-2014, 10:01 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 641
Posted By HistoryBuff

The pink '63 SWC; no, not a Playboy car

I refer to Mrs. Harley J. Earl's car.

http://www.mecum.com/auctions/lot_detail.cfm?LOT_ID=FL0114-174281

It's odd in the Mecum program it doesn't look very pink, maybe those shots were done in...
Forum: C1 & C2 Corvettes
04-26-2014, 09:43 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,551
Posted By HistoryBuff

Ozzie Olson Vette: was it found in rough shape?

Must have been found some years ago. Thsi is the Mecum auction car


http://www.mecum.com/auctions/lot_detail.cfm?LOT_ID=SC0509-79175

Oddly their auction page pictures don't show a side view...
Forum: C1 & C2 Corvettes
04-26-2014, 03:35 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 16,267
Posted By HistoryBuff

I thought Betty was in the Super Sport but other picture shows long nose on car

http://www.corvetteblogger.com/2011/09/08/corvette-hall-of-famer-betty-skelton-passes-at-age-85/

I thought by the closeup picture of her in the car it was the SuperSport
as evidenced by...
Forum: C1 & C2 Corvettes
04-26-2014, 03:01 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 385
Posted By HistoryBuff

1967 427 low mileage coupe in Colorado (MacNamara) at Mecum-what was paid?

autoweek came up with a great story on this '67 Corvette big block L36 bought by a returning GI (from Vietnam) who then hid it in his garage for 40 or so years. But as usual they manged to leave out...
Forum: C1 & C2 Corvettes
04-24-2014, 02:05 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,310
Posted By HistoryBuff

I also heard this was the first fuelie; FI buffs must know

I haven't seen an underhood picture of it when it was at the Chicago Auto Show or Motorama in NY but maybe the FI buffs on the Forum will know if it was fitted experimentally on this car for the...
Forum: C1 & C2 Corvettes
04-21-2014, 06:25 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,310
Posted By HistoryBuff

Was anyone hurt in the crash? If it was that severe...

I agree with the poster about the damage--back when '57s were rolling off the line one hit that hard would be scrapped. I was assuming the front body panels were off for repair, not complete...
Forum: C1 & C2 Corvettes
04-21-2014, 12:46 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,310
Posted By HistoryBuff

The dashboard picture elevaes the car in my humble opinion

Whereas before with only front 3/4 and rear 3/4 shots it looked pretty stock except for the side coves, twin windscreens and stripe, now I realize it had an SR-2 show car interior. So to me that...
Forum: C1 & C2 Corvettes
04-20-2014, 06:29 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,310
Posted By HistoryBuff

About that almost SR2 called the SS...

I say "Almost SR2" because though it has the brushed metal side coves (with simulated scoops) two plexiglass driver and passenger wrap around racing windscreens, it has regular steel wheels with...
Forum: C3 General
04-20-2014, 06:15 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 683
Posted By HistoryBuff

Fate of 1975 Mulsanne show Corvette? Was it ever sold outside GM?

It seems to be this once silver show car might not have been special enough for GM Styling to keep once Bill Mitchell retired. It had a lift off top but seems to me the two halves might have been...
Forum: C3 General
04-20-2014, 06:05 PM
Replies: 35
Views: 3,589
Posted By HistoryBuff

Question about when the real Sunray DX was found

I am just starting to research the original race car, I understand Sunray sold it because they had a '68 coming in. I was wondering what the price was that it was sold for (maybe from an old...
Forum: C1 & C2 Corvettes
04-17-2014, 05:47 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 3,207
Posted By HistoryBuff

Sunray DX L88 '67 history

I am looking for a good example of a '67 L88 racing car to research as a good example of a barn find nd I am thinking of the Sunray 1967 L88 coupe but aside from a letter to a forum from Bob Luebbee...
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