Features Corvette hot rods - picture thread

Found it here: http://www.greatplainsstreetrodders.com/cruisin-605/tom-olsen-page/at-the-drag-races/

This 61 Corvette was owned and raced by Ron Tysdal, as well as several others over the years. Thunder Valley Dragways, 1967.

 

BO LAWS posted by tommyd in the in motion thread

 

This thing just screams bad ***

 

She is pretty interesting too Wonder what it tows.

 

This showed up at the Ty-Rods 45th Reunion.

 

Here is a 57 that was saved from restoration. Now a street driven hot rod Vette.

 

yah, hitch and slicks!

 

Corvette looks great.
Don't ya just hate it when someone asks "what size are your Americans".
I have polished Halibrand 16x7 and 16x8 five spokes on my 67 Nova.

 

Baron,
That's a nice car.
jp

 

HA just when I say it's getting hard to find them I find a bunch.

C/A vette









Cherry Smash show car



Cherry Smash interior.




CLAUDE URVIG & BERNIE AGAMAN SS/DA



**** Clark (no not THAT one) Vert vette wheelie. WOW look at those wrinkle walls working out





MIKE CANNON CANNON BALL EXPRESS E/MP

 

And even MORE if you tune in NOW.

MIKE KOSTIC & DOUG CHRISTIAN D/MP



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check the vette g***er thread a few more there too.

 

Been on the Modified Production thread enjoying Charlie Kostic reminiscing about his 58 Vette and Willy B asked about frame spacers to achieve an up stance with the stock front crossmember and told him I would load a picture or two here on how I did it.

Willy here are a few pictures on my latest project which will have a bit of an upstance although not the height that some desire with the 4" spacers. This is a 2" spacer I fabricated and then you can see the three 2* stock shims to achieve decent caster (about 5 * or so-I hope). The newer stock shims I do not believe are as good as the older stock shims as they seem to be fatter at the leading edge (maybe 1/8" instead of closer to 1/16"). The thinner they are at the leading edge the more caster with the least amount of shims. You can see at the backside of the crossmember with the three shims it raises the car about 2 1/2" over stock (as stock uses one 2* shim and caster is maybe around 1/2*-not quite enough of course if you want to go fast with an upstance for sure). Hope this helps. Jim

 

Nice Jim, But we went to the 4" spacers back in the mid 60s and have never looked back then and now on any new builds.

 

Jim of course it is hard to argue with your success but sometimes some of us are hard headed. In my black car I had these very 2" blocks and then I did not like them as well as I thought so I made 3" blocks. I made 2" blocks for my avatar car since I had really stiff coil springs and figured I already had some height. I had these blocks sitting on a shelf with my latest project and thought I would try a different height- down a bit I guess. Who knows what I will do when I am finished with the car-I have been known to change on a moments notice . You are right 4" was the standard and I remember adding 4" back in the 60s. Hope all is going well with you.

 

I remember seeing this Corvette at NE Dragway on a regular basis. Always ran strong and always looked great.
(just noticed this is my 3000 post...nice to be on this thread!)

 

Found a BUNCH hidden away in a AWB site. Some may be AWB but a lot don't look it to me. Some probably are g***ers but hard to tell cl***es.

Just to get started a few I had been saving.



Customs Illustrated



Corvette Boat Swedish designer Bo Zolland has come up with this beautiful concept based on the 1963 Corvette Stingray.



OK here is part of them

Bob Renaud & Jim Liberman Gypsy Corvette



A couple of the same.





Clyde Morgan & Charlie Wilson Corvette Vicious Vette




Again





Dehaven Chevrolet




Fibergl*** Trends1

 

And a whole page of

Dave Strickler Old Reliable
















With Dyno Don's Comet



More to come

 

Anymore old "Corvette News" to put up?

 

Yea a bunch but they didn't seem to g over so good so I was holding off. I will start some again.

 

Steve McQueen. McCool's 427, 4-speed, side piped '66 coupe.

 

Sounds good to me. Thanks!!

 

Today's batch. It's don Rackemann day all him in this post.

Don Rackemann Corvette Auto Parts Bakersfield in1965








Running BB/A this day







Longer nose


SERIOUS Spoilers






Too bad they are looking too new to put shots on the hamb but some KILLER vette shots here on bangshift.

http://bangshift.com/bangshift1320/...er-stock-photos-leap-those-winter-blues-away/

 

Jason and Loudbang good stuff. A couple of fuelies that have been desecrated for the sake of drag racing. Oh the horror of it all. How could you not really like this stuff? The #80 car with a 265 makes me scratch my head a little bit though.

 

Yep can't see what cl*** he is running maybe dropped down into a lower cl*** with the 265

 

I realize that Loudbang but since they never came with a 265 in that body style, stock cl***es seem strange and modified also seems strange to me. The 265 was OK in lower cl***es of stock (if that was the plan) but I would have thought the 283 would have been a better candidate for modifications in modified (and stock as well).