Vintage road race pics
11-19-2007, 04:36 AM
#202
Melting Slicks
Back in the USA! Great to see the thread continuing...
Only saw one Corvette, (new ZO-6) In Monaco, and a bunch of those cool Fiat 500's throughout Italy.
Where were we?
Only saw one Corvette, (new ZO-6) In Monaco, and a bunch of those cool Fiat 500's throughout Italy.
Where were we?
11-19-2007, 04:24 PM
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11-19-2007, 05:46 PM
#206
Melting Slicks
Absolutely Mike, I will make a nice print of that one.
11-22-2007, 09:37 AM
#208
Melting Slicks
From the stunning pics from McKay's Corvette Repair, the 68 Sunray DX car. Note the 67 sidepipes and I believe a heater delete car, just like the 67 models....What was the build number of this car?
11-22-2007, 10:25 AM
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HD and international or Joe and Mike, have you 2 met David Andrews, he bought Lance Smiths "Spirit of Sebring" Greenwood Widebody and lives in San Diego? If not you guys should hook up
11-22-2007, 11:07 AM
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I think I know where the other half of the body of this C3 is located.....
......Mid America Motorworks in Effingham Ill.
whoops......wrong side.......
11-22-2007, 05:32 PM
#212
Melting Slicks
Well now we know where to find that sectioned body....It should be inside perhaps over a bar.....
11-22-2007, 06:15 PM
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Race Director
11-22-2007, 07:58 PM
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Le Mans Master
11-22-2007, 10:18 PM
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Former Vendor
There must have been a particular maybe historically correct reason because those guys are a lot smarter than to leave the car sitting so high.It does look odd.
11-24-2007, 11:00 AM
#216
Melting Slicks
More stories on that one....how many bodies and different livery's has it worn!
11-24-2007, 11:05 AM
#217
Melting Slicks
And now how about the wrecks of C-3 racers...look they are racecars, so this is just part of their life. They always seem to get repaired and faster at the same time...
I have some of the Greder cars in this selection, and note the L-88 details in some of them...
What happened to the spare!
I have some of the Greder cars in this selection, and note the L-88 details in some of them...
What happened to the spare!
11-24-2007, 05:56 PM
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This vette does not seem to be much comfortable on that winding road hillclimb track...the car clearly shows to be too heavy for that track and i dont think the driver could have done better then that anyway...
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11-24-2007, 11:56 PM
#220
Le Mans Master
[QUOTE=international blue;1562474277]Finally the #8 "Lightweight L-88" one of the more historic vintage survivors extant. A superbly provenanced racer...
I don't mean to burst you bubble but THERE WERE NO "lightweight" C3 Vettes made. This is a "fallacy" propted by Kevin McKay of Long Island Corvettes and the owners of various L-88 Vettes INCLUDING the Owens-Corning Corvettes (that were NOT! production built L-88 Corvettes.) The Owens-Corning Vettes were campaigned by Jerry Thompson son of a GM vice president and these Vettes were pre-production "mules" taken a fitted with L-88 motors for racing. The FIRST L-88 C3 Vettes were bought by American Internation Racing for preperation for the Daytona 24hrs in November of 1967. James Garner put his name behind the AIR teamand Dick Guldstrand oversaw building of these cars into racing Corvettes. This story is DOCUMENTED by Corvette News in 1967. The car pictured above was owned by Herb Caplan and is a REAL L-88 Vette but NOT a lightweight. This car was revised in the middle 1970s by my friend Dave Herlinger (Corvette Repair, Mtn View, CA) and campainged by Phyliss Styles inthe late 1970s and driven by Elliott Forbes Robinson to the LAST SCCA A production championship in 1978. My good friend Barry Parker did the body work on this Vette (and is still doing excellent bodywork right now!) I find it really funny that many of the "rich idiots" buy L-88 Vettes for $500K and this car that is probably one of the best L-88 Vettes that ever competed went for around $135K at the Monterey auction a few years ago. I know it is owned by Mid-America Corvettes now and after talking to my good friend Dave at Corvette repair, Mike Yager now knows he has one of the best L-88 racing Vettes in the USA. To put things in prespective, I like the Owens-Corning Vettes BUT, all of the O-C Vettes have been involved in MAJOR racetrack incidents and little of the original car remains, while the AIR (garner) and Caplan L-88s are still in pretty good shape. PLEASE STOP using the term "lightweight" regarding C3 Covettes! The only "lightweight" Corvettes were the SS cars of the 1950s, the 1959 Bill Mitchell Sting-Ray racer and the Grand-Sport Corvettes. Here is a link to the AIR L-88 Vettes, both owned by the Herlinger Brothers of the SF Bay area (Jims is restored, Daves is a "project in flux" like a couple of my Corvettes, including my Rich Hearn 63 Fuelie BP champion race Vette) AIR L-88 link: http://www.vetteweb.com/features/vem...l88/index.html
I don't mean to burst you bubble but THERE WERE NO "lightweight" C3 Vettes made. This is a "fallacy" propted by Kevin McKay of Long Island Corvettes and the owners of various L-88 Vettes INCLUDING the Owens-Corning Corvettes (that were NOT! production built L-88 Corvettes.) The Owens-Corning Vettes were campaigned by Jerry Thompson son of a GM vice president and these Vettes were pre-production "mules" taken a fitted with L-88 motors for racing. The FIRST L-88 C3 Vettes were bought by American Internation Racing for preperation for the Daytona 24hrs in November of 1967. James Garner put his name behind the AIR teamand Dick Guldstrand oversaw building of these cars into racing Corvettes. This story is DOCUMENTED by Corvette News in 1967. The car pictured above was owned by Herb Caplan and is a REAL L-88 Vette but NOT a lightweight. This car was revised in the middle 1970s by my friend Dave Herlinger (Corvette Repair, Mtn View, CA) and campainged by Phyliss Styles inthe late 1970s and driven by Elliott Forbes Robinson to the LAST SCCA A production championship in 1978. My good friend Barry Parker did the body work on this Vette (and is still doing excellent bodywork right now!) I find it really funny that many of the "rich idiots" buy L-88 Vettes for $500K and this car that is probably one of the best L-88 Vettes that ever competed went for around $135K at the Monterey auction a few years ago. I know it is owned by Mid-America Corvettes now and after talking to my good friend Dave at Corvette repair, Mike Yager now knows he has one of the best L-88 racing Vettes in the USA. To put things in prespective, I like the Owens-Corning Vettes BUT, all of the O-C Vettes have been involved in MAJOR racetrack incidents and little of the original car remains, while the AIR (garner) and Caplan L-88s are still in pretty good shape. PLEASE STOP using the term "lightweight" regarding C3 Covettes! The only "lightweight" Corvettes were the SS cars of the 1950s, the 1959 Bill Mitchell Sting-Ray racer and the Grand-Sport Corvettes. Here is a link to the AIR L-88 Vettes, both owned by the Herlinger Brothers of the SF Bay area (Jims is restored, Daves is a "project in flux" like a couple of my Corvettes, including my Rich Hearn 63 Fuelie BP champion race Vette) AIR L-88 link: http://www.vetteweb.com/features/vem...l88/index.html
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