Event Coverage Alter Boys 10th Annual Show *PICS*

cool pics thanks for sharing

 

Oh yea, gettin' my HAMB'ers confused.......

Pete-

 

Great shots, thanks Scott/Jim/Baron.

Dennis

 

I reveived the following information from Don Dybick (CSRA member who many of you know) who was a previous owner of this car:


"1962 Corvette

This is the real history behind the black ’62 Fueler at the Alter Boys show. The car was bought to race in 1961, Vin # 1616. It ran A/sp against 61 Fuelers. It was a red 360 hp, 4.56 posi car that came from Wethersfield, CT. I bought the car in January 1964 on my 20th birthday with 2700 miles on it, for $3,500. Its original price was $5,300.
It came home on a Friday and I put at least 10 miles on it that weekend up and down the driveway before I could get to Motor Vehicle on Monday. I was the third owner. The second owner bought it to drive, not race. By this time it was bored 60 over, had a Mickey Thompson injection head on it, (Thompson used to take the original head and cut it open, grind the inside and weld it back, to make it look like factory), short lake pipes dumping straight down and a wedge scatter shield. They knew how to cheat.
I drove it for five years and then took it off the road. In those five years I added one more tail light on each side, changed the color to black, put 4” I beam in the front, built 13” rims with skinny tires for the front, added more leafs to the rear springs and almost put a ¾ ton full floater rear in it.
I raced it once with 5.38’s and slicks and blew the caps off the pumpkin. The original motor went south. A girl slid into me on icy roads, hitting the nose. I bought all the parts to fix it, but that never happened. In 1993 the car was in a garage fire with some paint damage. After 43 years of owning the car, it was time to move on. It only had 35,000 miles on it. We sold it and later we bought a gorgeous ’47 Ford chopped ragtop to go along with our blown 5-window 32 Ford. Life is good. Don Dybick"



Dennis

 

Wow- impressive. These pics are a really refreshing change. Shows like this could get me to start going to these kinds of things again.

 

awesome story on the vette,and badass pics,thanks for sharing...........

 

The Vette may have been my cousin Carls car. He had a maroon (red) fuelie i remember it had a loud whistle to it. he sold it and bought a new 65 GTO. He was from Wethersfield. i just cant remember the shade of red it was.

 

Thanks Dennis. I spoke with the current owner and was able to retain a few of the facts. Great history for the car, and one of those cars that will always be on my "short list".
Baron

 

Wow, some real bitchin iron showed up to that show! The cut off year must have been diled in good because you dont see alot of "junk" in the background of all the pics.

 

I'm always amazed by Dennis's Knowledge!!he knows everyone & puts in that extra mile to find things out!
Now if we can just get him to tell us were Jimmy Hoffa is we can have some closure!!lol
JimV