1956 Chevrolet Corvette
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Kim, that certainly is a beauty, far better looking than the one I purchased in 1971 for $750! That said, those early Vettes are beautiful to look at, but comfort and handling were not their strong points.
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56 Corvette story. In the early 60s a friend, Dave, built a T bucket hot rod. He found a 56 Corvette engine for it. Fast forward to around 20 years ago or so, Dave still has the T bucket, it still runs. Local Chevrolet dealer and Corvette collector has a 56 Corvette with no engine. He sees Dave's hot rod, checks the numbers and offers Dave a brand new Corvette for the hot rod, just to get the engine. Dave took him up on it.
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FredCM wrote:
56 Corvette story. In the early 60s a friend, Dave, built a T bucket hot rod. He found a 56 Corvette engine for it. Fast forward to around 20 years ago or so, Dave still has the T bucket, it still runs. Local Chevrolet dealer and Corvette collector has a 56 Corvette with no engine. He sees Dave's hot rod, checks the numbers and offers Dave a brand new Corvette for the hot rod, just to get the engine. Dave took him up on it.
Great story and outcome, Fred. I have a '56 Corvette story of my own with a different outcome. Around 1971, I spotted the rearend of a red early vette in the storage lot of a body shop. I stopped and walked over to view the 'Vette and the owner of the shop came out and asked if I was interested in buying it. We readily agreed on a price of $750! It had been stolen from his lot after a fresh red paint job had been applied and the thieves were later caught while spraying black primer over the front of the car and had blown up the non-stock 283 c.i. engine. I purchased a low mileage 350 HP, 350 c.i. engine out of a roll over '71 Corvette along with its 4spd tranny and installed them in my '56 Vette. With period "big 'n liitles" (tires) on the car, it went like "Hello" in a straight line, but never was a curve carver and was anything but comfortable to take much of a trip in!
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KTJohnson wrote:
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Just awesome again. The designers of these cars back then were very good at it. Thanks BE SAFE!!
Tom
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That is a beautiful car, I'm not fond of the orange color, which is a personal opinion. Nice photo!
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