Corvette Summer
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Burning Brakes
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Corvette Summer
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1972-...ht_2623wt_1182
How many Corvette Summer cars were there? I thought the one at MidAmerica Motorworks in Effingham, IL was the real deal? I saw it there last year.
How many Corvette Summer cars were there? I thought the one at MidAmerica Motorworks in Effingham, IL was the real deal? I saw it there last year.
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1972-...ht_2623wt_1182
How many Corvette Summer cars were there? I thought the one at MidAmerica Motorworks in Effingham, IL was the real deal? I saw it there last year.
How many Corvette Summer cars were there? I thought the one at MidAmerica Motorworks in Effingham, IL was the real deal? I saw it there last year.
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Posted this back in 2007:
Another guy posted:
I need to go to this shop in Phoenix, guy has one of the two original Corvettes used in Corvette Summer. They had a third dummy car used for stills, but two that were identical. Guy has all the documents and stuff from MGM also.
Mid-America Motorworks has one as well, in IL.
Burning Brakes
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1972-...ht_2623wt_1182
How many Corvette Summer cars were there? I thought the one at MidAmerica Motorworks in Effingham, IL was the real deal? I saw it there last year.
How many Corvette Summer cars were there? I thought the one at MidAmerica Motorworks in Effingham, IL was the real deal? I saw it there last year.
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If you read the "certificate" with it, they claim that it was used as a promotional car for the movie. It was not actually in the movie. The car is quite different than the one used in the movie.
The shape of the front is somewhat different, and if possible, even uglier than the movie car's nose. Also, the movie car had header pipes that came out of the side of the front fenders, to form the side pipes and not "off the shelf" Hooker header pipes. I'm betting that it doesn't have the big ugly red plastic "bow tie" tail lamp either, as they didn't include any rear views of the car in the ad.
Is that guy nuts, asking $250,000 dollars for that thing!?!
The shape of the front is somewhat different, and if possible, even uglier than the movie car's nose. Also, the movie car had header pipes that came out of the side of the front fenders, to form the side pipes and not "off the shelf" Hooker header pipes. I'm betting that it doesn't have the big ugly red plastic "bow tie" tail lamp either, as they didn't include any rear views of the car in the ad.
Is that guy nuts, asking $250,000 dollars for that thing!?!
Drifting
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Her is a pic of the one owned by Mid America I took some years back at carlisle...the one on eBay is not even close...The 2 guys behind it are looking at the tin foil and christmas lights I had pointed out to them that made up the big chevy symbol...
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The original Corvette Summer car was built by "Korky" Korkes, a long time custom car builder in S.Calif working both for George Barris in the 60's and then on his own. The photo below is from his website.
http://www.korkyskustomstudios.com/
He was also well known for building the NFL and MLB carts.
http://korkyskustomkarts.com/
http://www.korkyskustomstudios.com/
He was also well known for building the NFL and MLB carts.
http://korkyskustomkarts.com/
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Burning Brakes
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I wonder if he really thinks he can get 250k for it. I vaguely remember the one in the museum having a price tag on it at like 100k.
Burning Brakes
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car on ebay was probably priced differently at different museums. by the time volo had it in 2007-2008 it was that was priced in the 30s and finally sold for under $25000. i remember the interior was ****, which has been replaced by different seat covers and carpetting.
