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Re: Does anyone know this car?
did ya notice the "dealer" installed a ZO6 master cyl as well as the fi unit on a 365 hp engine? mike -
What about the those niffty 1966 valve covers
with the PVC tubes hanging out of them. Looks like a replacement block may have just jumped in there all by itself while in storage.... hmmm?
oh brother..
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Joe: I don't think Fitch drove this one *NM*
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Re: Does anyone know this car?
How many 0010 blocks were available in 1965? If not, When?
Would a race car have a dealer invoice with FI and then have it dealer installed? M-20? Power Windows? Back-up lights?
Just curious.
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Re: Joe: I don't think Fitch drove this one
Geoffrey...remember when 54's, 64's and 68's were looked on as step childs.
All of a sudden..they are looking pretty good!
I don't know what this car is..but damn..it looks good!
By the way...I just bought the book Best Damn Garage in Town ..the life and adventures of Smokey Yunick..
It is fantastic, funny, revealing and every car guy, businessman,and entrepeneur needs to read it!
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Valve Cover
It looks like the one valve cover has the casting flaw in it.Comment
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Re: What about the those niffty 1966 valve covers
That car is real. You need to read the whole ad carefully. He says the car was upgraded in 1965, including a new block, as well as the injection unit, etc. It was made into a race car, nobody cared about "matching numbers". Oh brother?Comment
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So the ad is a little over the top
The car is still an interesting piece, in that is was an active race car, it gained its '72 logbook, and then stopped.
I wish he had put in a few more pages of the logbook to show how many races it went to. One reason it may well have stopped is that 1972 was the year SCCA began to allow fender flares as long as the profile of the fender remained the same when viewed from the side.
This made for some rather ugly flares on some cars, although some pulled it off without too much problems.
It wasn't long afterwards that the rounded flare most remember was allowed.
But the guy looks like he maintained a very much production Corvette, still true to a street Corvette, and the coming of flares and more race-car-only items would have made the car unstreetable. Maybe that is why he stopped.
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Re: What about the those niffty 1966 valve covers
well, I am not calling this car out, but before you start drawing lines in the sand you MIGHT be interested in the DATE that such a block was even available (not unitl 1969, as far as I can tell) which causes one to revisit with skeptisism the seller's claim that the block was "upgraded in 65" - might just be a date typo by the seller, who knows . . .
nice looking car nonetheless, would love to have it in my garage . . . .65 MM Convertible, L76 (365 hp)Comment
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I would like to have the name and
address of the person who bid 70K on the car - still looking for investors for my ocean marina in Wikieup, Arizona and the Prowler buyers keep indicating that their "startup $$$ are still tied up in the Prowler.".Comment
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Re: I would like to have the name and
Why is that? Because it does not fit your idea of an NCRS car? I'm sure there are alot of Corvette vintage racers that cannot understand the ungodly sums being paid for so-called numbers matching restored cars that they think are boring and all look the same. To some, this car is much more appealing - and rare (just go try to find a 30 year old surviving race Corvette with original logbooks). I don't think its right to ridicule someone because it doesn't fit your bill or because you may think its made up. Some people just may realize that these vintage race cars are a whole lot more rare and interesting than the rest of the run-of-the-mill cars.Comment
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Re: I would like to have the name and
I second your feelings some people like old race cars as much as others like NCRS Botie cars.Comment
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To each his own
There was a 67 L88 on display at the Bloomington Special collection last year. A spectacular but non descript car worth a million dollars plus..but received very little attention from the visitors at the special collection.
There is something about stripes and numbers on cars that make people go crazy...and make otherwise regular cars more unique!
I think it is the child in us...that makes us react this way.Comment
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Re: I would like to have the name and
Be aware that Loren Lundberg does not lack for appreciation of race cars--he owns the Camoradi 1960 that was raced at LeMans, the Nurgurbring, etc. I would join him in questioning just how much a car that has had limited racing history on a level less tha a national level is really worth.
And please understand the context of my comments--I've topflighted a 62, have a 71 LT-1 convertible recommended to the National for blowtie judging, and I found, researched, restored, and raced the 1962 Gulf Oil racer that Dick Thompson and Don Yenko won the national A-production title with in 62.
I, too, get excited by racing stripes, open exhausts, stiff suspensions, and the aroma of burned racing fuel. But there are race cars, and then there are race cars. There were many privateers who raced a little here and there, had very little success, and for the most part, really had what is now a car that has little value as a race car and no value as a judgeable original car. In other words, they have a driver, and it should be valued accordingly. FWIWComment
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