Ah, I found some more old pics

[69MyWay]

Here I am...strapping young lad riding in Dad's 54 Vette. You gotta love the sun glasses my Mom was wearing!!!!!!

I think this was taken in 84 or 85.

Now...for those of you that are C1 experts...tell me what is wrong with this car based upon what you can see in the picture. It cost us the deciding points in a big time Vette show in Michigan many moons ago. The interesting thing is, my Dad bought it from the original owner (a Chevy dealer in Orlando). It was documented back to the day it was delivered as you see it in the pic....judges thought otherwise and we went home with a 2nd place

 

[69MyWay]

You nailed it. It had the wing on both ends of the body side chrome.

Nope, my Dad sold it in 88 to another Chevy dealer, who auctioned it. It is now in Saudi Arabia. No joke!

 

[I'mAVettehead]

What about those narrow whitewalls?

 

[69MyWay]

What about those narrow whitewalls?

Good catch.

They actually did not get us on those at the show, as it was hard to get those in the mid '80s. Now, they have reproductions that look like the originals.


The left rear seperated on me when driving that car one time in 1987. Very scary.

 

[Tom Bryant]

Great old pics Chris. Interesting moulding treatment too. It's unlikely but it could be that when the car came down the line that the rear pieces were not available and the had plenty of fronts. I guess anything is possible on those early cars. I would guess that someone at the origional dealer just thought it would look better like that.

Tom

 

[IH2LOSE]

Chris this is So cool for me to see you sharing these old pictures I sincerely hope that I am making this type of an impretion on my children that they will speak so well of it in 20 years or so.
Again thanks for sharing .

HOW RECOVERY DOING?

 

[69MyWay]

Chris this is So cool for me to see you sharing these old pictures I sincerely hope that I am making this type of an impretion on my children that they will speak so well of it in 20 years or so.
Again thanks for sharing .

HOW RECOVERY DOING?

Thanks. I just found some more realllllllyyyyyyy cool ones.

We are busy cleaning up and reorganizing our house in preperation for Baby McSpeed. I can't believe the old stuff I am running across.

 

[69MyWay]

Oh, recovery..forgot to answer that one.

Having some pain in certain positions, but only one pain pill needed in the last week. I might have skipped that, but why sit in pain when you can relieve it???

I see the Doc after next week. I can come out of the sling then. I can also find out how all this went.

I am a bit worried as I have heard it pop a few times VERY loud right in the surgery site.

 

[1KULC7]

That first photo looks like New England Dragway Paddock area...correct????

 

[Orange 01 SS]

Shouldn't it have a white steering wheel too? Neat picture.

 

[Vanity Plate Bob]

Feb 04 issue Corvette Enthusiast mag came today. One in there with a white wheel. #253 in much, much need of resto.
I have been reading mags for a long time and now and again these kind of things show up. Maybe a Zora special.
The owner Dave Foutch a GM employee owned #300 at one time. Same buyer in Fla had it as of couple years ago.

 

[69MyWay]

Actually, the photo was taken in Orange Park, Florida. We lived there back then, moved away and ended up moving back years later.

White steering wheel? I really don't know?

Yep, you never know about the moulding. The car was bought new from the same dealer (for his daughter) that my Dad bought it from. So, it either came from the factory with the backwards moulding, or somehow it was done at the dealer.

The car had been 100% untouched since the late '60s when it was put in one of his warehouses. That is where we pulled it from. The last time it had been used was in a parade in Orlando.

The right rear tail lamp was smashed, and the pieces still on the floor in the warehouse where some careless person did it, then left the scene of the crime.

When we had it in Michigan backed in the garage, it was not unusual for people to see it from the road and stop in to ask questions. Nine times out of ten, it was mistaken (from the road) for a cobra. People actually sounded disapointed when we told them it was a vintage Vette.

My Dad hated the six cylinder. It was sooooo weak on power. The two speed trans left much to be desired as well.

Getting the window out of the trunk and snapping them in was a pain too.

I have a feeling had he kept it, we would have shoved a V8 in and figured out how to mechanize the windows to go up and down from in the door, among many other much needed modern improvements. The old battery and charging system was a real pain. When the car sat for a while it was a tough to get cranked...dealing with three carbs...etc.

 

[69MyWay]

Here are some more pics. I took these after we moved to Michigan in our back yard. This is just before I blew the left rear tire due to dry rot.

This red 74 was what I drove to high school....

 

[Tom Bryant]

That '74 looks nice. Does it have the Pace Car spoilers on both ends?

 

[69MyWay]

That '74 looks nice. Does it have the Pace Car spoilers on both ends?

nope, just the front. The rear was a fiberglass 82 clip.

 

[RedRagTop]

It's too bad that American treasures end up going to the highest bidder who typically these days is an oil rich Middle Easterner. Some of the stuff I have read like on the Sultan of Brunai buying whole fleets of new Ferarri and even rarer cars while his subjects starve in the streets. And to think a hundred years ago those same families were still heating their meals with camel dung...
Castro has made it illegal to buy a classic American car and remove it from Cuba...