Features Corvette hot rods - picture thread

Found this kind of interesting, the choice vehicle for a Corvette repair shop.

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Sam Cunningham in the near lane with his topless 61. Extremely successful car and National Champion. A bit too fuzzy for me to hazard guess on the far lane. Any idea what track and when?

 

Would like to know more about the car this chassis was used in. The hoop is familiar but certainly not exclusive. Any more info on that Terry?

 

Ya, Jim that track was Bristol and its the NHRA Spring National's the magazine is Hot Rod September 1967, this picture is unedited , it's a little clearer, maybe.
And that frame was just a shot in a article about roll bars and frames and that was all there was on that .

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This one was also at Bristol, and again no mention of it being a Corvette, the more I see this car it's starting to look lesser of a Corvette to me.

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The tail end looks Corvette, but someone went to a lot of trouble to make the front ugly, IMO.

 

Thanks Terry. I believe the only thing Corvette on the Matney car MAY be the valve covers. It is also a shame that Cunningham is not mentioned more often. In 67 for instance he won class at the Winternationals, the Springnationals and the U.S. Nationals-not all bad.

 

He’s escaped!, that go kart racing weasel has escaped!, somebody call the police!


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The first Chevy to receive the L72 427 was the 1965 Mako Shark II Concept show car

 

I have a slot car with this body, it was my favorite when I was a kid. I still get a warm fuzzy feeling when I see it ( the real one AND the slot car!)

 

Here’s one I photographed yesterday. whoops , wrong photo. that’s better.


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Gotta love them vintage Aurora slot cars....
I have one also... Buried somewhere...???...

 

Spastic

 

I was just plunking around online run across a couple pictures, probably been viewed by everyone already, but anyway this is them.

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The drone got me at the track, coming down the return road, lost in the finals last weekend to a friend 62 impala 409 dual quad 4 speed car.

 

SOME FROM THE WEB TODAY
I HOPE THAT THEY AREN'T REPRINTS...

 

These two photos are from my high school letter writing days. GM was nice
enough to come up with some photos.

 

@scotty t - useless trivia, but, I just double-checked... I have that very same orange tackle box (had it since I was a kid) and it has a bunch of guitar related stuff in it (my other hobby). And, coincidentally my name is Scott, also.

 

I’ve had that since the 70’s, probably found it at a garage sale. A buddy and I combined our slot car tracks on his ping pong table way back in the day. When we got older it all just got abandoned in the basement. After his moms funeral we were poking around down there and found my box, it’s been in my shop since then.
We both are 56 Chevy men as well, it seems.

 

LOL - yes, we are both '56ers. I vaguely remember buying my tacklebox new in the 70's as I did use it for fishing originally, but it got repurposed years ago as my 'guitar junk box' and has been ever since.

 

Oh, yeah!.. I got those..

 

" SHARK'S "......

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Non-Shark's....

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Can't say I like that bat vette....

 

Rudestude I believe that C3 (I hate that term) is a Motion Corvette. Custom Enterprises did all the bodywork modifications on the Motion Corvettes. They are on LI, I would see a lot of them in the day.

Pat

 

You are correct..that is the 1969 Baldwin Motion Phase lll GT Corvette.
The following photos will be of the engine bay of the 69 BMP lll GT
The 70 BMP lll GT
The 73 Motion Manta Ray GT
and the Baldwin Phase lll Shark

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I had the hood scoop for my 62 Corvette made by Custom Ent. back around 74 when I was building it. I really liked that car. The last picture is as it looked 2 yrs ago, repainted same color.

Pat

 

A FEW I FOUND ON THE WEB TODAY

 

1963 Corvette Grand Sport