Your Best Memories

[Tim S.]

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In my 62 Gulf Oil racer, (for which I paid $3500 in 1980 and which sold this summer at Monterrey auction for $1,485,000) going into the hairpin at Laguna Seca in 1987, following Frank Buck in his 57 team car, and looking in the rear view mirror, I saw:
John Fitch driving, Zora in his yellow helmet as passenger in the old GM SS racer, and they're racing against Dick Thompson who is driving the SR-2. We were told this was a "performance demonstration", and they were going at it!!
Many wonderful Corvette memories, but I don't know that I'll every top that one!

And now 28 years later, $3500 might fetch ya 3 wheels on that car!

[Bill M.]

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Had to be buying my first Corevette back in 1976. A 65 300 hp auto coupe. Huge fender flares, a duck tail , sunroof , chrome Hooker side pipes and monster Keystone classics. Wrecked it 3 times in 6 months but I learned my lesson and began to take care of them on my next one.

Bill

[Mike E.]

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Russ--
Yes, that is Thompson--that's probably taken 20 minutes before my favorite moment.
The gent kneeling is Lou Cutitta (sp?) who oversaw the restoration of the SS for GM. A great guy, knowledgeable.

[Dick W.]

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And now 28 years later, $3500 might fetch ya 3 wheels on that car!

Tim $3,500 might get you one of the 5 1/2X15 wheels today. $12k or more for a set

[W H.]

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Misguided youth..........

High school in the mid `70's, right after the oil embargo in 1973 - muscle cars were a dime a dozen. BB Novas, Chevelles, H/O 442's, GTO's, etc. A friend of mine had a `70 Chevelle SS L78. A couple of us used to pitch in for gas on Friday night - half a tank of Sunoco 260, then off to the municipal airport to top off with avgas......that car would fly (or so we thought).

The local burger joint (Big Boy) had carhop service and on Friday nights all the 'fast' cars would back into spots in the first row. Cars would pair off, with the loser going to the end of the line, the winner taking the next challenger. My buddy's Chevelle drew a `67 Marina Blue vert, 427/435, and we were psyched! Dan got the hole shot, but somewhere around 100 the 'vette blew past us like we were sitting still.

I don't think that I'll ever forget the sound of that big block through side exhaust at triple-digits.......hooked for life.

[Stuart F.]

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I love reading the stories about the fun and "narrow" escapes, but please let's not talk about the wrecks we had. They fall more into the catagory of bad memories. Truely, many of us have done some crazy things in our youth that we laugh and joke about now, but we were lucky - let's face it. This thread, never the less is great. I'm enjoying it immensly.

Stu Fox

[Tim S.]

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Tim $3,500 might get you one of the 5 1/2X15 wheels today. $12k or more for a set

WOAH! guess I'm a little out of touch.

[Mike M.]

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looking under the Dipstick black 57 FI at Palmdale and then watching Amgwert write" U-Joints R US "on dipstick's windshield with shoe polish. mike

[Paul H.]

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Just out of High School in 1972 and going on double dates in my 65. One girl would sit on the console behind the shifter and the other on my buddy's lap. Probably not the smartest maneuver but we sure had fun. Tough shifting into 4th gear!!

Still have the car but married a different girl.

[Jeremy D.]

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My dad had a '62 fuelie that was his daily driver until I was born in '68. Then he had to get a pickup truck for work, and the Corvette became my grandfather's daily driver. But when I was prolly 6 or 7, they had just built the Fabyan Street Bridge in Batavia, Illinois. Dad had to go to the liquor store or something, so we stopped and grabbed the 'Vette. We were at Fabyan and Rt. 25, and a friend of my dad's (who dated my mom before my dad did....long story there) pulled next to us in his '66 tri-power Goat. After a few friendly jabs, the light turned green, and all I remember was grabbing onto that grab bar in front of the glove cove thingy for dear life and Dad not ever getting off the gas. The poor goat never had a chance. we were at Rt. 31 on the other side of the bridge so fast it blew my mind. Needless to say there ended up being a lot of beer drinking at my folks house in St. Charles that night, and I remember the Vette and the Goat both in the driveway.
I sold that car to some poor unfortunate soul back in '98....if I remember right, he was wondering where the carburetor was hidden on the car...(I KNOW I'm gonna get a phone call from THAT statement....)....but seriously, since then have taken almost every 'Vette I've owned across that bridge, WAY faster than the posted limit....it's just not the same, I can't seem to get that same rush or grin I had when I was a kid.

[Stuart F.]

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Paul and Jeremy;

You crack me up! Paul, that thing about grabbing 4th gear - tuff though it may have been, I can't help but wonder how many times you got slapped and if that wasn't the reason you ended up marrying someone else. Some girls just don't understand.

Jeremy; I think I know the bridge and I can envision what impressed you.

Stu Fox

[Dick W.]

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looking under the Dipstick black 57 FI at Palmdale and then watching Amgwert write" U-Joints R US "on dipstick's windshield with shoe polish. mike

That was a classic moment Doc.

Some of my favorite memories are of the '61 I had in high school. Like having four cheerleaders riding with me. The '63's had just come out when I bought that car.

[Mike M.]

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That was a classic moment Doc.

Some of my favorite memories are of the '61 I had in high school. Like having four cheerleaders riding with me. The '63's had just come out when I bought that car.

i'd give the 63 ZO6 to see you and any 4 females in a c-1 today.mikie

[Dale S.]

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Hi, I am not familiar with the 2 cars in the picture. One was a SR-2 and the other a Corvette SS. Was this the SS from the GM Motorama? I was told today that a Corvette SS was sold in Chicago Ill. to a Ralph Pool cars in Albuq. The car this person spoke of had shiny metal in the coves and no top. The son of Mr. Pool borrowed a helmet for the drive from Chicago to Albuq. The car was sold and wrecked by a son of the new owner. The salvage was bought by a Mr. Bill Hovey of Albuq. and much later sold again. Supposely a book was written about this Autorama Corvette SS. I was away at College when all this supposed to have happened. Can someone enlighten me? dale

[Jeremy D.]

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Do any of you guys remember a fawn/white cove '61 fuelie running around Trinidad, Colorado in the mid '60's that outran the local judiciary at the time?