lostnfoundC4

I came across this article about astronauts and their vettes. I wonder if some of these cars are still around.

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/...te-connection/

BigDR

I remember reading that Gus Grissom's 1967 sold a few years back. I'd imagine those boys rode them hard.

Joe C

the wife and i visited the kennedy space center last year, and alan shepard's 68 white vert was on display next to the saturn 5 moon rocket -



BTW, back in 1984, i turned down a job with lockheed at the space center - position was a test engineer on the shuttle's OMP's (orbital maneuvering system/reaction control system pods). to this day, i regret that decision.

ED77KATR

I saw the same car last week at KSC. its a 427 car also ! How about that Saturn 5 parked next to it...

DebCar

Does anyone know what happened to all the astronaut vettes? What were the VINs?

Cjunkie

If its the 3 black and gold ones your speaking about only 1 survives and is owned by a private owner.

captcfd23

Yes there are several still around. Some have received more attention than others, Alan Bean's 69, Gus Grissom's 67, Neal Armstrong's 67 in particular, but others are out there. Ill go ahead and tell you, unless something major has changed GM nor the Museum have any records on them. I'm also afraid that when Mr. Rathmann sold his dealership years ago those records were also lost. He has since passed away, so the chances of tracing a cars history are getting more difficult with each passing year.

jpipx

Wow, how I can identify with what you wrote! I did a design for a local subcontractor back in 1981 while in college, and was offered a job at NASA right after graduation. Like you I turned down the job because I didn't want to move to TX. BTW... the design was a solar energy motor controller that went in to the final shuttle design works. Talk about regrets... but I have the vette!

Joe C

I hear ya! even after 33 years, I STILL regret that decision. that was a once in a lifetime thing - not one person in ten-thousand gets that opportunity. what triggered the whole NASA thing was working as a test engineer on a re-entry simulator at WPAFB. I did spend my final working years as a development engineer on flight simulators and aircraft maintenance trainers - mostly tactical fighters. overall, it was good, but i'll always have the regrets .