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Old Sep 6, 2005 | 04:24 AM
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This was posted in the Off Topic section by member RainJ.
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/showthread

Is this one of our members Chrome Bumper Vettes????
Look at the C3 beach pictures.
http://www.thegroovybean.com/HURRICANEKATRINA/

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Old Sep 6, 2005 | 04:55 AM
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Wow! Incredible. In some of those other pictures you can see that the windshield is gone! Blew out I guess. Took some force to do that.

The rest of that gallery looks like bombs went off.
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Old Sep 6, 2005 | 06:10 AM
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No build sheet on the tank and it sucked the licence plate right off of it.
That close to the beach, I wonder how deep the water was?
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Old Sep 6, 2005 | 06:24 AM
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Probably a real nice ride before the storm.
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Old Sep 6, 2005 | 07:10 AM
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Amazing thing is the T-tops stayed on
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Old Sep 6, 2005 | 07:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Bangkok Dean
Amazing thing is the T-tops stayed on


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Old Sep 6, 2005 | 10:04 AM
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I hope he had insurance on the vette. Looks like it was a sweet ride before the storm.
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Old Sep 6, 2005 | 10:21 AM
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Ouch!
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Old Sep 6, 2005 | 10:35 AM
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what a rotten shame. that was a nice vette. i'd of got that outta town before the hurricane hit even if i had to push it
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Old Sep 6, 2005 | 10:43 AM
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I will have some of mine when I get back into St. Bernard. It should not be as bad as that, but I am waiting to see the flood damage.
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Old Sep 6, 2005 | 11:31 AM
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You know what would be cool.... If we (The C3 Forum) could get that vette... restore it.... and raffle it off to raise money for the Hurricane Releif.

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Old Sep 6, 2005 | 12:18 PM
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Old Sep 6, 2005 | 01:37 PM
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Just... Damn.
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Old Sep 6, 2005 | 02:11 PM
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I saw that posted over in OT...
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Old Sep 6, 2005 | 02:36 PM
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that sucks it looks like it was really sweet, they should of gotten it out before the storm hit
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Old Sep 6, 2005 | 02:44 PM
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I keep thinking when I look at that pic "I wonder where it was when the storm picked it up..."
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Old Sep 6, 2005 | 03:21 PM
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WTF was it doing outside to begin with !!!!


Or was there a garage around it before the storm hit and that is what's left.
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Old Sep 6, 2005 | 09:49 PM
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That just plain sucks, very sad to see.
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Old Sep 6, 2005 | 09:53 PM
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Originally Posted by BLVette75
You know what would be cool.... If we (The C3 Forum) could get that vette... restore it.... and raffle it off to raise money for the Hurricane Releif.

A little body filler, a little Zaino...and some PB Blaster.
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