Features Corvette hot rods - picture thread

Jimdillon,
Thank you for the back round on the car! For some reason it just stood out to me. It appears to have a simple formula for going fast while keeping all the components of the corvette that I like!
Scott


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Scott, he had a few lettering schemes on the car although I really liked when he had Go-Rilla on the front panel. Cars had more character then IMO.

Here is another cool picture of him leaving.

 

I saw the car Friday night a blue top. Neat car for sure.

Jim

 

Great pics! Awesome! I love the one of the two cars leaving the line!


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I had the 5 spokes off my '32 this weekend and I couldn't resist putting them next to my '61 to see how they looked. I like it. It's too bad the rear tires are too wide that they hit the springs and the fronts don't have the correct pattern or I could play musical wheels.

 

And they look awesome!!!


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I’m sure I’ve posted this pic before but my buddy runs them on his race car. I’m sure there are other wheels out there but man I like 5 Spokes! (It’s car I ever went down the drag strip in!)


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Get wheel spacers and longer studs.....

 

Pretty bold paint scheme on that 67.

Pat

 

I had to wonder about that '67, how long ago the paint or any other mods
had been done. It has Cragar S/S on the front and Rocket wheels in the
rear. There's the six tail light treatment. The interior is cashed, it needs
work and, of course, the paint. I don't find it objectionable.

 

Quick I feel the same way. I'm not sure on it but I like the way you put it "not objectionable". It would certainly make for good conversation.

Pat

 

That's pretty close to what my '57 looked like the last time I saw it. I never managed to resurrect a picture of it after the "bedpan white" paint job was applied. I find it practically impossible to not "like" any first generation Vette but the '56/'57 remains my odds-on favorite.

 

Chuck is this your red corvette? Good looking car for sure. I have high hopes of getting a first generation corvette hopefully soon!!


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Here you go Chuck. I’ve posted it before but here it is in its glory days. It’s owner Tom is on here every now an again but pretty much lurks the jr stocker thread.




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That is a picture of the car. circa early 1968, freshly painted red. Three years later it competed during the NHRA Winternationals and I still have the I/S class trophy with the pit pass dangling from the side of the trophy cup on my shelf.

This is a picture of it at the AHRA Winternationals at Irwindale in 1966.
In between those events it spent at least fourteen months in storage while I was in graduate school outside of California. This is a picture of my dad, uncle and I rolling it out of my mother-in-law's garage when I returned in September, 1969.



I owned the car for nine years and it spent a helluva lot more time on the track than on the street during that period.

c

 

Chuck, thank you for sharing! Awesome pictures and story! The red paint job looks great in the old photo! I can only imagine how it looked in real life!

What engine combination was I/S for that year for NHRA and how fast did you run?

I wish Tom would chime in so I don’t have to do his dirty work for him but I believe him and his brother ran as an injected glide car. I believe the pic of the car running is from 71.
When I went down the track in the car in the 90’s it had a 283hp 4 spd and 4.5’s. It ran 13.90 at LACR with small slicks. That same time at Palmdale would have been a lot faster here in Famoso!

Scott




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Gotta love those old "Skinny" slicks LOL.

 

Chuck that looks like a scoop on the hood, did you run a different class in AHRA?

Pat

 

Scott, the 1971 combination was 245 horsepower. I recall that it only ran in the high twelves but that was my first attempt at assembling an NHRA combination with stock valve springs so it tagged a couple of valves early that weekend. Fortunately, there was only one other car in I/S and, after all the thrills of teardown, getting everything bolted back together through Saturday night, and getting through the San Jose Hills from Rowland Heights to the track for the picture ceremonies through an incredibly dense fog bank on Sunday morning, I was happy that it produced any kind of positive outcome. Unbelievably, even the relatively few contingency awards received for winning class that day generated over a thousand 1971 dollars so the engine nearly paid for itself in one outing. I remember the Ordway car from that era but Marv Ripes had pretty much covered everyone in I/SA with his '57 during that era.

LB, those tires were Casler recaps on a much harder compound, early Goodyear racing carcass with very stiff sidewalls. They were not optimal by any means but they served the purpose at the time.

Pat, the AHRA rules of that era allowed an aftermarket hood scoop in Stock and Stock Sports classes. I had located an extra hood in a Corvette scrap yard, stripped all the fiberglass bracing from the bottom-side, and bolted on a scoop of unknown origin just for the sake of appearance. I seriously doubt that it added anything to performance although I spent quite a bit of time placing it farther forward on the hood in order to pick up more air from the leading edge of the nose of the car. You are correct, such scoops were clearly not accepted in NHRA Stock Eliminator.

c

 

That woody gives me wood!

 

Man that looks like it’s going 100mph standing still!


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Definately a cool roadster! But what year is it, really? 64 hood, 65 gas lid, 67 gill's and grille, and no center back-up light, probably not a 67, unless it was filled. Curious...

 

Only the VIN tag knows what year it is I'd drive the wheels off of it after the sides where painted red