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Channel surfing last night I stumbled across Carmerica on the Velocity channel at 10:30 PST and there was a great episode about the Owens Corning L88. Lots of old clips and footage of C3 and C2 racing. Anyone else catch it? I assume it will be repeated like all the other shows on Velocity.
Channel surfing last night I stumbled across Carmerica on the Velocity channel at 10:30 PST and there was a great episode about the Owens Corning L88. Lots of old clips and footage of C3 and C2 racing. Anyone else catch it? I assume it will be repeated like all the other shows on Velocity.
Pretty cool how the windshield on the L88 could be unbolted and replaced with a 8'' short screen.
Not to discount the effort but, it must have been very convenient to have a GM Vice President for a father when it came time to procure parts/sponsorship for that effort. That L-88 wasn't a L-88 it was a regular Vette fitted with all the right hardware. The AIR Vettes were the 1st production line assembled L-88s to be delivered in late 1967 ( November as I recall ) for conversion to FIA race cars. That L-88 was owned by a person in Reno Nevada for quite a while, wrecked many times and rebodied/re-motored in its long race career. I've got to say, the Owens Corning Vettes had the best graphics package of all the race Vettes of that era, the Greenwood cars come in a close 2nd place in graphics in my book. There is a guy out here Bowman who has several significant L-88 cars ( along with a 63 Grand Sport and various Cobras ), my favorite being the Allan Barker 69 car fitted with a LT-1 to win national championships in B Production, why the Barker car? because last time I saw it it was still unrestored showing the scars of the race track....many " rock stars " in the fender paint proving it has very sticky tires on it.
Not to discount the effort but, it must have been very convenient to have a GM Vice President for a father when it came time to procure parts/sponsorship for that effort. That L-88 wasn't a L-88 it was a regular Vette fitted with all the right hardware.
almost but not quite right, the 1968 car was built from parts Delorenzo & Thompson took off the line, their 1969 car was an off the GM assembly line L-88 and mine (the third of the three O-C built cars) was a car they built from a recovered theft Tony got from Don Yenko, painted by Randy Wittine, same O-C member (and GM styling engineer) that came up with all those great paint jobs, thats the original paint job in my avatar, and that guy from Reno, Bud Hickey owned both O-C cars for a while, he was a great source of information for me.
When watching the video, when looking from the front view of the car over the top, you can see a silver 69 convertible sitting directly in front of the City Chevrolet building. That is my old 69 L89 convertible that I owned from 78 - 85. Sold it during the restore process to buy my first home. Wish I had that one back!!! The photos were sent to me by the museum curator.
Carmerica last night
