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Old Apr 2, 2017 | 11:10 AM
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Thanks Mike! Shot below is from NCM Delivery line, a few years back when I got my 2008.


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Old Apr 2, 2017 | 12:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Mike@Criswell
That is actually a painting!!
Is the artist Scott Jacobs??? Photo Realism.
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Old Apr 2, 2017 | 12:40 PM
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Always love the pictures, but the C&D cover from Oct 62 really brought back memories. I got caught reading that issue in study hall. The infraction earned me another afternoon in my reserved seat at high school detention. Amazing how our minds are triggered by a photo from so long ago. Thanks Mike.
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Today's photos are among the best you've ever shown IMO. I especially love the window stickers and the magazine covers. The one below is kind of interesting, though. It mistakenly shows "Stingray" instead of "Sting Ray", there's no rear bumper on the supposedly new Corvette, and I don't remember plain painted wheels being offered on the C2 (though I could well be wrong on that one).

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OK here we go -

3rd place: May 1963 Motor Trend (63 SWC cruisin in the city). Maybe bc I had that issue and wish I was driving instead of that old fart?

2nd place: 1935 C2 w/hubcaps delete. One throwback pic. ^ ^ ^

Grand pic #1: The B52 Stratofortress Bomber circa 1955, shown with a car of the 21st Century. That pic was WAY AHEAD of its time.

Honorable mention: The class pic of spankin new C2's; C&D Jan 65; C&D Dec 78.



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Old Apr 2, 2017 | 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by 6GenVettes
Grand pic #1: The B52 Stratofortress Bomber circa 1955, shown with a car of the 21st Century. That pic was WAY AHEAD of its time.
The photo is a great one but not so much ahead of its time. The plane is a C17 Globemaster, not a B52.
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The photo is a great one but not so much ahead of its time. The plane is a C17 Globemaster, not a B52.
I stand corrected. But close enough for govt work
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Old Apr 2, 2017 | 03:31 PM
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I really liked the picture of Chip & Zora, Chip was a good friend.

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and Zora was a good friend to all. Chip passed way too soon.

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Always love the pictures, but the C&D cover from Oct 62 really brought back memories. I got caught reading that issue in study hall. The infraction earned me another afternoon in my reserved seat at high school detention. Amazing how our minds are triggered by a photo from so long ago. Thanks Mike.
Which is exactly the reason I post the throwback pics...great memories from years ago.

Mike Furman



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Today's photos are among the best you've ever shown IMO. I especially love the window stickers and the magazine covers. The one below is kind of interesting, though. It mistakenly shows "Stingray" instead of "Sting Ray", there's no rear bumper on the supposedly new Corvette, and I don't remember plain painted wheels being offered on the C2 (though I could well be wrong on that one).

I liked that pic as well...Im wondering if he bought it used without the rear bumper and no wheel covers.

Mike Furman


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Old Apr 2, 2017 | 03:54 PM
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Mike; I look forward to your pictures every Sunday. Have you seen the C8/Mid Engine? Or do you know anybody who has seen it?
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My favorite, Car and Driver, December 1978..

Oh, did you mean car?

Thanks Mike
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Mike; I look forward to your pictures every Sunday. Have you seen the C8/Mid Engine? Or do you know anybody who has seen it?
No...and Yes.

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Many of us were probably thinking it... Oh how I wish those outfits were back in style! Those were the days... LOL

Great looking L82 too!!!


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Old Apr 2, 2017 | 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by MZeigler
Mike,
I really liked the picture of Chip & Zora, Chip was a good friend.

Mike
That appears to be Bill Miller (no relation to Chip) in the black C1 silver cove parade car. I think the black C1 belonged to Chip. Chip and Bill Miller were the original co-owners of the Carlisle Fairground at the time they turned it into Carlisle Events. Founding fathers if you will. Chip's son Lance is now known to carry the torch for his dad.

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Originally Posted by Thespian
Many of us were probably thinking it... Oh how I wish those outfits were back in style! Those were the days... LOL
That's why I gave her an honorable mention

Disco was good too in 78
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Wow Car and Driver really bombed a couple of their predictions, specifically the C4
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There were a few but I narrowed it down to this picture as my favorite throw back shot this Sunday.




I would never have know that the picture of the wet Blue '62 was a painting and not a photo.

Great thread Mike.
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"130+ Corvettes available in stock and another 40 inbound and this weeks allocation number to order is 58". Can you say, Corvette Heaven!


I always enjoy your weekly post
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