This car was purchased off the show room floor and modified by Bertolucci's Body Shop of Sacramento back in the 60's (from what my mom recalls). My pops bought it a year later, and of course like many others he sold it to fund another project a few years after that. I came across some photos, thought I would see if anyone recalls this car.
Well,look who's joining in! It's about time you came out of the cave... *****in car. How long did he own it? Who did the custom work?
That car was in a old Popular Customs magazine with metalflake lime -gold paint before this version. Didn't Bertolucci make a mold of the top just to chop it? He also moulded in some louvers in the hood. It was one of my favorite vettes !
probably not even close to being the same car , but i saw a photo of a chopped vette that a striper out of dayton ohio area , that goes by the name the ejiption (sp ) owned....similiar pipes, chopped , similiar color , about the same time period...late 60's early 70's.... will have to look for the pic... brandon
No help on locating it...but that's one BAD*** Vette! I'd really consider building one like that.......if i could afford the buy in that is
I think I remember seeing it in That or another magazine about that time. It's one of those rigs you don't forget.
I remember it. I went to school at Mary A. Detterding Elementary, just up the street. Being dyslexic, I often walked down the wrong way, and often ended up across the main drag at the shop. Mostly an auto repair place, But I remember thing Vette, and a he did a Mercury four door that I saw there and then again a few years ago at Pebble Beach, and I have had a custom bone ever since I was a little kid because of that shop...
My mom told me she drove the vette to work everyday when she was a phone operator for Pacific Bell. She parked it in the parking lot off highway 50 in Sacramento. The high school right next store started to complain that kids were ditching school to sneak a peak at the car. So they asked her to park in the back lot with the work trucks. Than kids started hoppin the fence to check it out... They soon asked her not to drive the vette to work.. HAHA just the way she tells the story is hilarious. I remember my pops talking about the car like he never sold it. He loved that vette. He told me a story about him and my mom driving down south to go to Disneyland, and on the way he was pulled over a couple times.... just so they could check out the car... Well when they got down south, it started to rain so pops put a plastic tarp over the car, and shortly after the sun came out, and cracked most of the clear coat.. So Im sure the pretty Red Peal was repainted after that, but If I can recall, pops said he sold the car shortly there after. Sure would love to see the car in person... that is if its still around. (I come out of hibornation only for a short time.. than right back to bein a hermit Sarah
I absolutely love it! Good luck in your search. I'm sure I've seen it somewhere before too. Did one of the model car companies produce a scale kitset of it? Maybe it was a Hot Wheels car. Maybe the car was based on a scale model?
haha My Nash is coming along slowly... I brought one of my VW bugs down here a few ago... I figured Id put some work into it... drive it around for a month or two.. sell it.. and than put the money towards the Metro... But its been too damn hot to work during the day.. Ive just been doin a lot of sanding and rattle cannin after it cools off at night.. ;-) Nothin like pickn primer boogers Wish I made more money... I think I need a second job...
http://www.stillrunnin.com/magazine/sr2/45-46 Any of you guys looking to find out who, what or where, about a car check out the link above, it is free to submit your car for the page. Lea, publisher
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