where is it now
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Racer
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From: Western Washington
where is it now
I'm 61 years old and am looking for someone who knows the where-abouts, or has seen my first car. It would be a '60 Corvette and I sold it in Seattle Washington in May of 1970, when I shipped out for Viet Nam. When it left the factory it was white w/red interior and had a Powerglide transmission and a Wonderbar radio. It still had those features when I sold it. Some unique identifiers were as follows:
It was wearing WA state license plate # ODA-743.
It had a 2-barrel, 283 passenger car engine w/ gray painted valve covers and a modified J. C. Whitney open air cleaner.
It had '61-'62 style wheel-opening exit tail-pipes.
I had changed the seat covers & door panels to black roll pleats.
I had changed the aluminum door panel inserts to formica woodgrain.
I had changed the dash pad & carpets to black.
I had removed the crossed flag emblems on the front fenders as well as the reflectors below the tail lights and filled the holes.
There was a small burn mark in the chrome, on the top of the right rear bumper where I had re-welded the mounting bracket.
The flange behind the right rear bumper, where the 1/4 panel met the lower body panel had been removed.
There was a penny bonded to the right rear trunk floor where I had made a repair.
The lower edge of the left front turn signal was broken off.
I saw it a few years later, parked in a gas station on lower Queen Anne in Seattle and noticed the woodgrain dooor panel inserts had been changed to black carpet, the wheels had been changed to Ansen Sprints w/ big tires on the rear, the car had been lifted a few inches per "gasser" style and there was a Tweety-Bird decal in the center of the rear window.
I just recently was able to get a nice, used '07 LS-1 coupe, so, after 41 years of waiting & dreaming, I'm finally "back in the saddle", but I still think about that first car and would love to know what happened to it and where it is now. Any leads would be appreciated. Thank you all, in advance, for your help!
It was wearing WA state license plate # ODA-743.
It had a 2-barrel, 283 passenger car engine w/ gray painted valve covers and a modified J. C. Whitney open air cleaner.
It had '61-'62 style wheel-opening exit tail-pipes.
I had changed the seat covers & door panels to black roll pleats.
I had changed the aluminum door panel inserts to formica woodgrain.
I had changed the dash pad & carpets to black.
I had removed the crossed flag emblems on the front fenders as well as the reflectors below the tail lights and filled the holes.
There was a small burn mark in the chrome, on the top of the right rear bumper where I had re-welded the mounting bracket.
The flange behind the right rear bumper, where the 1/4 panel met the lower body panel had been removed.
There was a penny bonded to the right rear trunk floor where I had made a repair.
The lower edge of the left front turn signal was broken off.
I saw it a few years later, parked in a gas station on lower Queen Anne in Seattle and noticed the woodgrain dooor panel inserts had been changed to black carpet, the wheels had been changed to Ansen Sprints w/ big tires on the rear, the car had been lifted a few inches per "gasser" style and there was a Tweety-Bird decal in the center of the rear window.
I just recently was able to get a nice, used '07 LS-1 coupe, so, after 41 years of waiting & dreaming, I'm finally "back in the saddle", but I still think about that first car and would love to know what happened to it and where it is now. Any leads would be appreciated. Thank you all, in advance, for your help!
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