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Amazing 1967 Corvette Survivor

Posted: 1/30/13 12:51pm Message 1 of 7
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        Amazing 1967 Corvette Survivor

   1967 CORVETTE with 2,996 original miles... 

found sitting in a garage in Colorado Springs, Co.


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Re: Amazing 1967 Corvette Survivor

Posted: 1/30/13 3:26pm Message 2 of 7
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Larry, That's very interesting. He evidently changed out his painted 427 Chevy valve covers for the Offenhauser finned aluminum ones. Thanks for postingThumbs Up


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Posted: 1/30/13 7:16pm Message 3 of 7
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Thanks Larry - love reading about these barn finds. Just wonder why / how he decided to park it and never drive it again? Absolutely amazing how these cars are still out there.


 

 

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Posted: 1/30/13 10:28pm Message 4 of 7
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Vette(s): 1982 C3 Collectors Edition 44000 miles, sat in the sun most of its life, My wife purchased it for me for Father's Day in 2007 from her girlfriend that had it for 19 years. It is on the road again. I'm retired but it is now my daily driver.
Great story
 
The most amazing one I know of personally was the one I saw in Coronado Ca. I was going to a friends house and their neighbor was a young couple in their early 30's.  As I walked up the street I saw the shape of a C1 under a car cover.  I lifted it up and sure enough it was what turned out to be a red and white corvette. 
I asked who owned it and it turned out to be this kid.   When the kid told me he owned it and I told him he needed to get this off of the street and into a safe place. 
I asked him what he was going to do with it and he did not know so I gave him my phone number and asked him how he got it.  As it turned out his parent's neighbor that he mowed the lawn for when he lived at home had purchased it for his son for the boys highschool graduation.   He was going to Vietnam. 
There were not a lot of people killed in those early years of the war but he was one of them.  The kid had watched the father and son put the car up on blocks in the fathers garage.  The father took care of his sons car even going to the trouble of putting fuel in it and starting it every few months until he became too old.  As it happened this kid kept in touch with this guy and often stop in to see how they were doing.  One day the father asked him if he would like to have the car. 
The guy told me he need a second car for his wife so he took it.  He did not have money for tires and did not want her to drive it on the old tires and that is why it was parked in the street. 
He didn't know how valuable that car was.   I watched that are covered on the street for a couple of months before it disapeared never new if it was stolen or sold.


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Posted: 1/31/13 9:15am Message 5 of 7
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I saw one at the Chevy show at Tonawanda Power plant back in 1984ish.  It was a 1954 vette with 17 miles on it.  At least that's what the owner said, the only milage on this car was driving onto and off of the trailer.
 
Man, I could never do that.  I'd have to drive the car.


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Posted: 1/31/13 9:16am Message 6 of 7
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nice post & find - that engine bay is not survivor ...


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Posted: 1/31/13 6:09pm Message 7 of 7
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ceastham1 said: nice post & find - that engine bay is not survivor ...

I noticed that as I watched it too, Clint.  It said he changed to different tires almost immediately, too.  I'm sure he put a few of his own touches on it as most all of us do.  It's still an amazing car and one I'd love to have ( just like that 64 convert of yours). Hug 
 
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