Un-Split Your 63 Split Window Coupe
#41
Melting Slicks
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I probably would have done some modifications to the new 64 but I was too poor. Couldn't afford anything with $108.22 Corvette payments every month. I removed the hub caps though. Does that count?
#42
This one guy Richard Shapiro he was in a band his dad got him a 63 split window 3 speed corvette.
I was doing good if my Grandfather took me to Sears for tires .
That area was all cars during that period 1965 thru 1973 .
#43
Team Owner
It was all cars before 1965; we lived in Wheaton, MD and I saw my first split window there (two actually -- racing in downtown area) and saw John F. Kennedy twice...
#45
Safety Car
#46
Hell yea raced the 57 down Viers Mill road ,and Connecticut Ave extended when they built it , Always raced this guy with a big block Olds His dads car what a boat I finally beat him had a 283 stock 2 barrel What Memories .
#48
Team Owner
Peterson Spotlight Book #540
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Joe Inama (12-10-2019)
#52
Team Owner
Both the article in the first post and the magazine cover posted just above are from the same publication.
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#53
Like seeing instructions on how to paint latex over Michelangelo's Painting of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling.
#54
Drifting
My dad(now deceased) told me a story once about a 63. I was riding with him going someplace around 1980. I was 14 or 15 at the time and already in love with the C2. I don't recall how we got on the topic but he told me that his nephew had a nice 63 with the "split window". He said that his nephew hated the car. It drove rough, was very uncomfortable, noisy, no AC, the split window was a pain, and so on. So he put the car up for sale sometime in the middle 70's. No one wanted it. It took him forever to sell the thing. He finally sold it for $700 and was happy to get that.
My how times have changed.
Can you imagine the legal implications of a split window design today?
My how times have changed.
Can you imagine the legal implications of a split window design today?
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I graduated from Mount Vernon High School in Alexandria in 1964. Cars were a lifestyle back then. And Hot Shoppes was the place to be with your car on Saturday night.
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#56
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Hot Shoppes were the bomb - a family destination if us kids got good grades...
I was in this crowd outside Montgomery Blair High School and remember it distinctly nearly 60 years ago now:
I was in this crowd outside Montgomery Blair High School and remember it distinctly nearly 60 years ago now:
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#57
I grew up in Kensinngton MD
. Whent to Einstein high school There was a yellow corvette 1962 running around the guys lived behind the Little Tavern somewhere.
Those were the days ,The Hot Shops what a blast.
. Whent to Einstein high school There was a yellow corvette 1962 running around the guys lived behind the Little Tavern somewhere.
Those were the days ,The Hot Shops what a blast.
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