spiceman
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Have had some fun in here with the fella's remembering old days of race car's.
Thought maybe I'd try my luck with more pictures of the past cars, and driver's, and history of both.
Some great learning experiences herein, with some laugh's as well.
Example, our wonderful Corvette God Father Zora Arkus Duntov.
How many knew that Zora's telephone number was a listed phone number for every corvette owner to call him personally if they had a problem, or just to shoot the bull? He wanted to know when there was a problem, and if he could help a stranded owner, he would.
That at 5:00 PM sharp and I do mean sharp.....was cocktail DRY MARTINI time? Pull the Vette over at the nearest cocktail happy hour.
The death of him was his Lucky Strike Cigrettes.
He was an acomplished pilot, and owned to his end a beautiful Rockwell single engine airplane. and was determined to break Jimmy Dolittle's air speed record in a BGee' aircraft.
That Zora won the 24 hours of LeMans 1955.......but driving a Porsche! Nearly got fired by GM.
I receive daily email's from many corvette owner's of both new vette and older vettes....and as some have read herein, I have many old credit's to my
years with Corvette, Corvette engineering, Corvette racing, or just racing in itself.
I as example have personally owned some 34 Corvettes throughout my life time, and my brother Chris, most likely more than me. And naturally I always laugh when I see Barrett Jackson Auction, and think to myself.........OMG
all the Stingray's we owned and sold a few thousand :lmao:
As most all know, I had the honor to host the very first Corvette Grand Sport Reunion back in 1978. And anyone reading this part.......and NO Bill Tower had NOTHING, ZIP ZERO NADA to do with the Reunion other than being a ticket holder. The orginal engineers were all there, along with media and the GS's doing battle for the first time at Sebring Raceway. These cars at the time were believed tohave been destroyed and long gone history, until I personally tracked down and located all 5. (Talk about some racing stories from each and all owner's)
Because of that meeting Reunion of the Grand Sports, and the many media magizines coverage...the Grand Sports became to the public what they are today, NOT becuase of the Amelia Island concours show, a couple years ago.
I have a picture to share here in.
In this picture,the very men that gave Corvette life......... Do you know them.
Driver's at the Daytona 1963 Continental race 1. Then later, pictures not many have ever seen before that were recently sent to me from a fellow Corvette owner. Thank you Garrett .:wavey:
Thought maybe I'd try my luck with more pictures of the past cars, and driver's, and history of both.
Some great learning experiences herein, with some laugh's as well.
Example, our wonderful Corvette God Father Zora Arkus Duntov.
How many knew that Zora's telephone number was a listed phone number for every corvette owner to call him personally if they had a problem, or just to shoot the bull? He wanted to know when there was a problem, and if he could help a stranded owner, he would.
That at 5:00 PM sharp and I do mean sharp.....was cocktail DRY MARTINI time? Pull the Vette over at the nearest cocktail happy hour.
The death of him was his Lucky Strike Cigrettes.
He was an acomplished pilot, and owned to his end a beautiful Rockwell single engine airplane. and was determined to break Jimmy Dolittle's air speed record in a BGee' aircraft.
That Zora won the 24 hours of LeMans 1955.......but driving a Porsche! Nearly got fired by GM.
I receive daily email's from many corvette owner's of both new vette and older vettes....and as some have read herein, I have many old credit's to my
years with Corvette, Corvette engineering, Corvette racing, or just racing in itself.
I as example have personally owned some 34 Corvettes throughout my life time, and my brother Chris, most likely more than me. And naturally I always laugh when I see Barrett Jackson Auction, and think to myself.........OMG
all the Stingray's we owned and sold a few thousand :lmao:
As most all know, I had the honor to host the very first Corvette Grand Sport Reunion back in 1978. And anyone reading this part.......and NO Bill Tower had NOTHING, ZIP ZERO NADA to do with the Reunion other than being a ticket holder. The orginal engineers were all there, along with media and the GS's doing battle for the first time at Sebring Raceway. These cars at the time were believed tohave been destroyed and long gone history, until I personally tracked down and located all 5. (Talk about some racing stories from each and all owner's)
Because of that meeting Reunion of the Grand Sports, and the many media magizines coverage...the Grand Sports became to the public what they are today, NOT becuase of the Amelia Island concours show, a couple years ago.
I have a picture to share here in.
In this picture,the very men that gave Corvette life......... Do you know them.
Driver's at the Daytona 1963 Continental race 1. Then later, pictures not many have ever seen before that were recently sent to me from a fellow Corvette owner. Thank you Garrett .:wavey:
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, I just checked your profile and I see you're a surfer. Some day you will know what I'm talking about. :lmao:
