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Found some pictures of the Chris Tuerlinx Corvette from 1969!!!!!!!!!
The car looks very standard....... without fenderflares,
spoiler and large bulge on the hood.
Interesting pictures, the car looks like it just came off the boat, they threw numbers and some sponsor stickers on it and went racing! It still has the bumpers, mirror and emblems installed. It's hard to tell, but does it even have a roll bar or cage in it there?
If that is the same car, as in the other pictures, it's likely a very early 69,.....and it's not an L-88.
68's and very early 69's, had black plastic grills, with silver painted edges. These were replaced with plain black grills, a month or two into 69 production. After going back and looking at the first picture you posted, the car appears to have dark front side marker lamps. 68's had clear front markers, with amber bulbs, while 69's had amber lenses in the markers. Seeing that the car has 69 doors, side markers and rear exhaust panel, I'm pretty sure it's a very early 69. It must have started life as a 427/390 single 4 bbl, or a 400 or 435 tri-power.
As far it being an L-88, your latest pictures of the car, show it with a regular 427 big block hood. With that hood, it could not have been an L-88. The L-88 needed the taller hood to clear the intake manifold, carb and air cleaner.
Interesting pictures, the car looks like it just came off the boat, they threw numbers and some sponsor stickers on it and went racing! It still has the bumpers, mirror and emblems installed. It's hard to tell, but does it even have a roll bar or cage in it there?
If that is the same car, as in the other pictures, it's likely a very early 69,.....and it's not an L-88.
68's and very early 69's, had black plastic grills, with silver painted edges. These were replaced with plain black grills, a month or two into 69 production. After going back and looking at the first picture you posted, the car appears to have dark front side marker lamps. 68's had clear front markers, with amber bulbs, while 69's had amber lenses in the markers. Seeing that the car has 69 doors, side markers and rear exhaust panel, I'm pretty sure it's a very early 69. It must have started life as a 427/390 single 4 bbl, or a 400 or 435 tri-power.
As far it being an L-88, your latest pictures of the car, show it with a regular 427 big block hood. With that hood, it could not have been an L-88. The L-88 needed the taller hood to clear the intake manifold, carb and air cleaner.
Here is an article in Auto Revue 5-75 on the Corvette when it was bought by Hans Deen after Chris Tuerlinx had his fatal accident.
Deen bought the car with a blown engine and according to the article, the cylinder heads where replaced by special headers.
Maybe you can see in the picture which engine is installed?
The car is at the time of the article, seven years old and it may be that the engine has been replaced.
By then the car is not so standard anymore!
Given the information received, it is very likely that Tuerlinx wanted to take part in Le Mans 24H 1968 with a Corvette, but the car for whatever reason is not delivered on time or could not be delivered.
The Corvette has been delivered in the spring of 1969 and Tuerlinx drove the Corvette almost standard in the Spa 1000km 1969.
After that, the Corvette has be continuously developed and converted to perform better.
But why did he not order a L88?
The language is Dutch!!!!
Article Corvette C3 Hans Deen (ex-Tuerlinx)<br/>AUTOREVUE 75-5 Article Corvette C3 Hans Deen (ex-Tuerlinx)<br/>AUTOREVUE 75-5
Last edited by Arenacorvette; 02-02-2017 at 04:46 AM.
Reason: forgot to add
Seeing the picture of the engine above, explains the large hood scoop/bulge, that was added to the hood. Obviously it was added to clear the Weber induction system. Unfortunately, the picture doesn't help determine what the original engine was, since Chevrolet never offered Webers.
68 and 69 Corvettes were offered with 4 different 427 (7.0L) engines. The 427 came in 390, 400 and 435 horse power versions, along with the under rated 430 horse power L-88.
In number "4" on page 814, next to the graph, it makes mention of a 7.5 liter V8, which roughly converts to 454 cubic inches, the size of the 70-74 Corvette big block engine.
Not being able to read Dutch, I'm not sure exactly what's being said, but at the end of the first column on page 815, the article references "Corvette-blok met een inhoud van 7.4 liter en 390 SAE pk". I'm guessing that this is saying that at one time the car had a 390 hp Corvette engine, I'm just not sure about whether it was a 427 (7.0L) or 454 (7.5L), as 1970 454's were rated at 390 hp also.
Could this have been a misprint, calling the original 69 engine a 7.4, instead of a 7.0 liter, was the original 7.0L (427) enlarged to 7.4L, or could the 427 have been replaced by a 454/390, by the time the article was written in 1975? I'm not sure what the context of that paragraph is, and even translated, it might still not be clear.
Based on what I can make out in the article, I think it's quite possible that the original engine was a 390 horse power 427.
Here is an article in Auto Revue 5-75 on the Corvette when it was bought by Hans Deen after Chris Tuerlinx had his fatal accident.
Deen bought the car with a blown engine and according to the article, the cylinder heads where replaced by special headers.
Maybe you can see in the picture which engine is installed?
The car is at the time of the article, seven years old and it may be that the engine has been replaced.
By then the car is not so standard anymore!
Given the information received, it is very likely that Tuerlinx wanted to take part in Le Mans 24H 1968 with a Corvette, but the car for whatever reason is not delivered on time or could not be delivered.
The Corvette has been delivered in the spring of 1969 and Tuerlinx drove the Corvette almost standard in the Spa 1000km 1969.
After that, the Corvette has be continuously developed and converted to perform better.
But why did he not order a L88?
The language is Dutch!!!!
Article Corvette C3 Hans Deen (ex-Tuerlinx)<br/>AUTOREVUE 75-5 Article Corvette C3 Hans Deen (ex-Tuerlinx)<br/>AUTOREVUE 75-5
The car was build for Chris bij transeurope in Genk , Belgium , locale tuner.
Last edited by Eddy Proost; 04-08-2022 at 03:45 PM.
Eddy thanks for your valuable contribution and reopening the thread.
Do you have pictures of the corvette from the time your father was a mechanic in Chris Tuerlinx's team?
Of course any other information about this special corvette is very welcome.
In 2017 I did my very best to get as much information as possible about this beautiful corvette and its drivers.
Perhaps through your connections you can share more and interesting information with us.
I started the research out of interest in this car and because my hobby is model building of corvette race cars.
I am in the process of building all versions of this car.
The cars of Chris tuerlinx in the different color combinations, the cars of Hans Deen, the Bas van Vliet version and the car in the colors of Didier Sirque.
Ikzelf heb geen foto's meer maar ik zou jouw adviseren om via Facebook contact op te nemen met zijn zoon Jan Tuerlinx , die kan jouw vast verder helpen met de nodige informatie.
Grtz Eddy
01-31-2017, 01:02 PM
