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Does anyone know of a muscle car shop in Boulder Colorado? The shop may still be around today. It was aproximately 1987 or 1988 in the downtown Boulder area. They had appoxoimately 20-30 cars, one of which was a 1987 Buick GNX, one was a Brands Hatch Green 1971 LS6 Coupe and a 1967 CORVETTE ROADSTER YELLOW NEEDING RESORATION SERIAL NUMBER 22942 (THE "potential" REAL LAST 1967 MIDYEAR corvette). My father visited this place on a business trip when he was looking to buy a corvette. He ended up buying a 1970 LT1 instead but remembers talking to the owner of this shop. The owner (name not in the memory bank) swore up and down that the sunfire yellow roadster stitting there, in need of resoration, next to the LS6, was two numbers past the serial number 22940 shown in the black book. Can anyone remember this shop? Is it still around today? Does anyone know the owner of this shop? My father remembers the conversation like it was yesterday. All the guy could talk about was the GNX and how fast it was...it would do zero to 60 in about 2 seconds..The 71 LS6 had all options, about 20K miles and was owned by a doctor. Proteam may have the last 67, but this story sounds worth checking out. Anyone have comments?
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Memories are out by 2 model years
Boulder (yes); summer of 1988; Centennial Motors; Mike P. (owner); there were 2 LS6's and a '83 Ferrari 312 BBI of interest, among many others.
And yes, a yellow Corvette big block roadster needing restoration which had a VIN 2 numbers past the generally accepted end-of-production. But the model year of said car was 1965, not 1967.
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Re: The real last midyear?
HI John I had heard a story a long time back about a car with a higher number than 22940 Iam sure its possible. Hope the its owner is going to Barret. I would also say if I was thinking of Terrys car I would need a photo of the plant on the last day showing a silver BB coupe leaving for some proof it being the last car build. Cars are taken off line for one reason or another where is it said that car 22940 was the last car build other than by its number. The last car to me is nothing more than a number. Car 435 or 427 or 1967 or 1 are all just that a number if I had a choice I would pick 13787 my two cents. Phil 8063Comment
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Re: The real last midyear?
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Ignoring the "is it real" issue, it would have to be a very rare and unusual circumstance for a job to be "pulled off the line". VINS were assigned sequentially at the first station on the Hard Trim Line after the body left the Paint Shop, and from that point to the end of the Final Line they were physically locked in sequence, and all the feeder lines were already producing the frame, chassis, engine, dash, etc. If a job was "pulled off the line", it would break sequence throughout the final assembly system, and a lot of BIG parts would also have to be pulled off the feeder lines and stuck in an aisle somewhere; such a decision was not taken lightly, as it upset the entire scheduling system.Comment
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The real last midyear?
John there are some years of C3s in which VIN numbers were destroyed or lost. I believe one was lost in 1980 -- I would have to check with Brian Pearce to be sure of the year, I'm working off of memory here. There was another year in which a group of VIN tags were lost or misplaced. The end result is that the VIN numbers of the last car(s) were more than the number of cars Chevrolet reported built.
I believe there were some "extra" 1965s showed up a few years ago as well.
I’m not trying to suggest anything with respect to “the last 1967." I am only pointing out other situations with respect to the number of Corvettes produced in a year.TerryComment
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Thanks Terry Thanks John
I wasnt there or ever worked at a car plant.I've been in the hobby when it was a hobby.I have seen job body numbers that dont coincide with vin numbers, cars with 50 vin numbers apart are more or less than 50 job numbers apart. How does that happen. Two 1963 corvettes were to be pick up at the plant, one for some reason was delayed and other was picked up it had a later vin than the other. I have seen internal paper work from GM that a cars engine blew on line. The car was delivered new to the dealer with an engine that had an April date and it was a late Feb fuel car where was that car for all that time. I would think it left real late from St. Louis.I dont know if it went down the line and out the door in vin sequence but it was finshed a lot later than the car behind it. The stories we hear from the plant workers seem to make you thing, That the way it was, It wasnt. John could Iam sure tell us all a lot better. Thanks guys its always a new day and a new lession learned, I always have a open mind and anyone thats in this game that doesnt learn something new every day is missing out! Happy New Year Phil 8063Comment
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