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I need some help

Posted: 2/8/08 1:54pm Message 1 of 7
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La Marque, TX - USA
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Vette(s): 1969 L88 4 speed convertible reboddied as a 68 T-top and repowered with a small block.
My 69 has been a racer since the day it was sold. If you don't know the story in a nut shell it was a L88 convertible, 4 speed, radio heater delete car. In 71 it wrecked at Rockingham dragway (boy would I like a picture of that) and was rebodied as a 68 T-Top. Over the years it gained a Greenwood front end but still only has the L88 flares on the rear. After going through some 427s it now has a 350 with a manual valve bodied aut transmission.
The local vintage group here in Texas has issued challenge after challenge to keep it off the track and each time I've been able to document that it is correct. Now they insist that I document a simular car being raced prior to 75. Anybody have a picture of a C3 T-top with a 350 auto and a greenwood front with L88 rear flares racing prior to 1975?  At this point I really want to show them up.   



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I need some help

Posted: 2/8/08 9:50pm Message 2 of 7
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I'm guessing that is going to be a pretty tough thing to find.
 
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Posted: 2/8/08 9:58pm Message 3 of 7
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La Marque, TX - USA
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Vette(s): 1969 L88 4 speed convertible reboddied as a 68 T-top and repowered with a small block.
I kind of guess that is why they tossed that one out there. Now if I had some caviar, stuck my little finger out when drinking tea or a big toter home and an enclosed trailer and had taken a car with no history and made it look like a race car I'd be fine. As my buddy likes to say "I poke badgers with a fork"


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Posted: 2/9/08 4:05am Message 4 of 7
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Vette(s): 2004 Commemorative Edition Coupe, Auto w/HUD. 13K miles in 2015. Sold 1982 Red Coupe
Do you think Rockingham or other tracks would have old movies of the races?


 
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Posted: 2/9/08 6:51am Message 5 of 7
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Tucson, AZ - USA
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Vette(s): 1970 White L-46 Air Roadster, 1971 White LT1 Coupe, 1971 Red Auto Air Coupe, 383 stroker, 430 HP, 2002 Millennium Yellow Auto Coupe

sorry.......I misunderstood, I am sure I saw a greenwood car in some old corvette news I have.

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Posted: 2/10/08 7:33pm Message 6 of 7
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La Marque, TX - USA
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Vette(s): 1969 L88 4 speed convertible reboddied as a 68 T-top and repowered with a small block.
I spoke with them. Great folks, but they do not have the records from the time before they owned the track.


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Posted: 2/10/08 7:34pm Message 7 of 7
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Vette(s): 1969 L88 4 speed convertible reboddied as a 68 T-top and repowered with a small block.
Hey any help is great.


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