HilltopClassicCars

Hello all, I'm hoping some of you can either ID these three items or tell me they are not recognized as C1 items. I found them down in the passenger side quarter panel well of the trunk. The welds on them are pretty poor and don't look like a skilled welder did the fabrication. Anyone have any ideas what they are or might be, do I hang onto them or put them in my scrap metal pile - thanks in advance for your input?

jimh_1962

Not sure... Looks like they were made to slide onto something but what??? Spacers??? Have you taken a look underneath and see if anything was altered? Maybe on the leaf springs or rebound straps???

6D2148

scrap pile!

jimh_1962

Yeah... It looks like each one slides onto one another. Weird.

HilltopClassicCars

I had the same thoughts, they won't slide onto each other, they must have been fabricated to slide onto something else, but what I have no idea. The underside appears to be completely unaltered and the leather rebound straps are in place as they should be.


So far it's looking that way.


They won't slide onto each other as the tube or pipe is too wide for the openings, I'm thinking they were fabricated to slide onto something else but can't figure out what.

Qblue92

Those are the lil stands that you rest your shoe on at the shoeshine place.

66jack

They slip over the leaf spring and butt up to the frame... so you can drag race...

OR


They are Boot dryers...

128racecar

That's what I love about the C1: the weird spot in the trunk where stuff falls in, only to be found decades later. I found a quarter from 1963 along with a claw hammer, nails, and wood screws. Once upon a time, my car was used to haul around carpentry supplies?!?

Marc in Indy
57 283/245 4 spd- in the family since the early 60's

ohiovet

Definately not original 1960 Corvette parts.

tuxnharley

Adapters to mount the flux capacitor!

Frankie the Fink

They are clearly to clamp something to a henway...

HilltopClassicCars

Some great responses flowing now, keep them coming, I'm enjoying them all!

6T7L71CPE

Ultra rare RPO 123 Pedal extenders so the Wifey could drive the Vette.

Frankie the Fink

At first I thought they were supports to hold up Hillary's political platform..
Yeah - I went there...

C-1 Generation 2

Looks like some attachments for a body cart to set a car body on when doing a frame off restoration.

phil2302

Those are road bump rotation force deflectors.

Dave Tracy

Could have been a dealer option

SJW

It's a lowering kit for the engine and gearbox, and it comes as no surprise that nobody here has been able to identify it. It fits only the 1964 Z06 disc-brake cars with the 37-gallon tank, and gets the CG much lower to improve handling and reduce body roll in corners. It was a double-super-secret project (unpublished RPO-007), developed and personally hand-built by Z. Duntov in the corner stall of the men's room in the back of the St. Louis plant, at 3AM on the third Sunday in June, 1964 in the wake of the corporate ban on racing support, and smuggled out in the lunchpail of a janitor with instructions from Duntov to deliver the kit to The Flying Dentist for use in a race later that same day on Waikiki Beach.

The only set ever built, it was widely believed to have been destroyed in a spectacular outhouse fire on the outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama that ignited on September 31, 1965 and smoldered for three and a half weeks. Recently discovered in the basement of a house on Big Pine Key, FL, it has been authenticated by Thompson's great-niece, and certified by NCRS as numbers-matching and still wearing its original Tuxedo Black nitrocellulose lacquer. The paint does show some checking at a few of the weld seams, and a bit of beach sand embedded in residual film of SAE-90W on the transmission mount, but this patina should only add to its collector value.

It is anticipated that it will probably sell for at least ten figures as the debut auction item on the new Greed Channel multi-media auction series being developed jointly by E-Bay, Antiques Roadshow and Barrett-Jackson. Watch for it. The public roll-out is scheduled for 4/1/17.

But you didn't hear about it here...

Live well,

SJW

skeew

Frankie...Whats a Henway ?

Frankie the Fink

4-5 pounds; roosters - a little more.

Damn, I actually got somebody