The $2,000,000 C3.....
Melting Slicks
Joined: Jul 2002
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From: Boulder Creek California
Originally Posted by joe73vette
I looked at them again - you're right. The car for sale is #12 and the Lime Rock car is #11. Must have been a team mate. Joe
Burning Brakes
Joined: Oct 2004
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From: Grants Pass Oregon
2mil
Those bubble lights are the answer to all my headlight problems..LOL, $500.00 you say? Not within my budget if I need something to eat this month. However the Paint is awson, what do you guys say to the same paint only instead of red...blue and white? And not 11 or 12 but lucky 13! Am I just not seeing right or is that a rear flair with standard front fenders? I like it, i like it a LOT...the white side pipes rock! My mind is made up I'm gonna L88 the hood on my 73..what do you guys think about that skeem, I could tape and paint that myself. Maby a lite metalic in the blue? 
Burning Brakes
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From: Vernon British Columbia
St. Jude Donor '05
First C3 General Poster!
Originally Posted by codestar7
Those bubble lights are the answer to all my headlight problems..LOL, $500.00 you say?
He has me by the short hairs though...where the F*CK else will you find em???? ANYONE KNOW?
Burning Brakes
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From: Vernon British Columbia
St. Jude Donor '05
First C3 General Poster!
Originally Posted by lostpatrolman
message redvetracr, he had a set a few months ago he was trying to sell.
NO ONE ELSE CAN BUY THEM...an if you do come the project time Ill pay you double ....
Pro
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From: Boston MA
The 2 million dollar car is one of the 2 original OC race cars that won 27 straight SCCA National races in a row with Delorenzo and Thompson racing. It is a very significant car and a doc real L88 as Tony's dad was a exec at GM so Tony had an inside track with them and could get almost anything he needed. My dad practiced I think this car at the 6 hr at the Glen and was going to drive it with Tony, until Thompson went off with other car in practice and 'bumped' my dad for the race.
The second OC car that is shown at Lime Rock is a "third" car that was built by the old OC crew chief in the mid/late 80s from a third frame that was not good enough to be used by the team at that time. He has since passed away and Tony brokered the deal to sell the veh and it is being vintage raced around the country by a very nice man.
I think that two of the five Grand Sports have traded hands in the last year and a half, #1 the Penske roadster, and I think #3 went from WA to CA. I know that #1 went close to 5mil.
Also, Redvetracr does in fact have a set of the endurance headlights for sale.
The second OC car that is shown at Lime Rock is a "third" car that was built by the old OC crew chief in the mid/late 80s from a third frame that was not good enough to be used by the team at that time. He has since passed away and Tony brokered the deal to sell the veh and it is being vintage raced around the country by a very nice man.
I think that two of the five Grand Sports have traded hands in the last year and a half, #1 the Penske roadster, and I think #3 went from WA to CA. I know that #1 went close to 5mil.
Also, Redvetracr does in fact have a set of the endurance headlights for sale.
Team Owner
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From: Massillon,Ohio USA
2020 C3 of the Year Finalist - Unmodified
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St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'10-'11-'12
Originally Posted by 81 Vette
Yea Im with you there...
He has me by the short hairs though...where the F*CK else will you find em???? ANYONE KNOW?
He has me by the short hairs though...where the F*CK else will you find em???? ANYONE KNOW?
Race Director
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From: YANKEES UNIVERSE 70 454-LS5 500 ft-lbs Torque
BJM you seem to know alot about the car, any more info you could share with us like how the current owner came to own the car would be appreciated....THANKS JERRY
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Melting Slicks
Joined: Jan 2004
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From: Detroit MI
One source for the headlights is Tracy Performance in Roseville, Michigan. 586-772-0000
You only get the buckets and covers though. You have to come up with your own lights. I used the factory lights and adjusters.
You only get the buckets and covers though. You have to come up with your own lights. I used the factory lights and adjusters.
Last edited by 69autoXr; Oct 28, 2004 at 12:36 PM.
Le Mans Master
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From: Silver City NM
St. Jude Donor '05-'07
Don't forget...that's his ASKING price. Heck...you can ask a bazillion gazillion dollars. Doesn't mean he will GET that price. I find it somewhat amusing that he even has it listed on autotrader. Not like millionaires frequent that place. 
Dep
Dep
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From: Boston MA
I really don't know that much about that car, just about the time period, second hand of course, and I do not know who owns it. I thought that one of them was owned by a guy in NV but???
The one thing that I did notice was that it was listed as the 72 AP National Champ, which I think is incorrect as Jerry Hansen won it in one of his own cars. I did not think that his car was an OC car. I could be wrong.
DJ Dep.. I asked Tony who ended their streak, he told me, and I forgot!! It was not someone you would have expected. Plus, Tony never won a National Championship with the car or ever, Thompson won it in 69.
The one thing that I did notice was that it was listed as the 72 AP National Champ, which I think is incorrect as Jerry Hansen won it in one of his own cars. I did not think that his car was an OC car. I could be wrong.
DJ Dep.. I asked Tony who ended their streak, he told me, and I forgot!! It was not someone you would have expected. Plus, Tony never won a National Championship with the car or ever, Thompson won it in 69.
Le Mans Master
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From: Silver City NM
St. Jude Donor '05-'07
Originally Posted by bjm
I really don't know that much about that car, just about the time period, second hand of course, and I do not know who owns it. I thought that one of them was owned by a guy in NV but???
The one thing that I did notice was that it was listed as the 72 AP National Champ, which I think is incorrect as Jerry Hansen won it in one of his own cars. I did not think that his car was an OC car. I could be wrong.
DJ Dep.. I asked Tony who ended their streak, he told me, and I forgot!! It was not someone you would have expected. Plus, Tony never won a National Championship with the car or ever, Thompson won it in 69.
The one thing that I did notice was that it was listed as the 72 AP National Champ, which I think is incorrect as Jerry Hansen won it in one of his own cars. I did not think that his car was an OC car. I could be wrong.
DJ Dep.. I asked Tony who ended their streak, he told me, and I forgot!! It was not someone you would have expected. Plus, Tony never won a National Championship with the car or ever, Thompson won it in 69.
Dep
Intermediate
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Verts question?
Originally Posted by Jughead
Wonder why all the L-88 racer's of that era were all convertibles?
They were faster because you didn't have as much wind resistance. you were also allowed to chop the W/S post and run a abreavated windshield of lexan plastic.
I have a '69 car very much like that one and at high speed the windshield would lay down flat against the dash.
Not to mention if any of you have ever raced on a road course for 30 min or more you will about pass out on a hot day getting out of my car.
I felt sorry for the guys with a coupe cause they got little or no air to keep them cool and there you are in a pair of fireproof coveralls with nomex longjohns underneath. I have lost as much as 5 lbs in one race before. You just don't have any Ideal how hot it is in a race car.
That is more the reason that most were conv if you ask me.
(My '69 SCCA B/P back in the early 80's)
