Beauty

[Black 03 Z06]

Honestly there is a beauty under there...

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Some Corvettes simply are not beautiful...this picture from Sebring in 1962 shows the test mule and yes that is Zora with the helmet ready to take this one out on the track....

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Thread title applies here...no other comment necessary

 

[Rruuff Day]

I'm gonna goout on a limb here Murray but I'm guessing she was second place prize.... right behind the Vette of course...

 

[Black 03 Z06]

This beauty has a great drag racing competition history....worlds smallest air scoop? Maybe that was the secret.

 

[Black 03 Z06]

There has always been a competitor for Corvettes...the Cobra for certain and I believe the car in the far lane is a Cheetah...drag racing and road racing, all played a significant role

 

[Rruuff Day]

Wowsers Murray. That Cobra has a ton of front suspension travel.... Good thing these are straight line only cars... tough enough to know where our noses are on the street let alone with the front end up and a monster blower in our faces... They are eye grabbers though... Scientific testing indicates that an exposed blower increases the driver's testosterone level by 38.3% and the bystanders by 17.6%.... Damn... mine is up just looking at the pictures...

 

[Black 03 Z06]

like this one...sorry about those people at the table in the back, no idea how they were terribly pixilated

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Not a Corvette but I love this shot...Cool dude with an equally cool racers cap

 

[12cents]

Not a Corvette but I love this shot...Cool dude with an equally cool racers cap

Could be a pre-corvette picture Murray, he is just out testing his drive train before dropping the new style body on it

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Anybody ever heard of this guy Roger Penske?....well maybe

 

[Black 03 Z06]

A mild custom that I kind of like...

 

[Black 03 Z06]

The styling cues that determined the looks of many of the GM cars in the mid 50's the Corvette included...

1954 Oldsmobile F88

1956 Impala

 

[12cents]

That Impala looks quite nice. Almost like a supersized corvette

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Pic taken in Southern Ontario today, 70 degrees and 15 cent a gallon gasoline. Life is tough here.

 

[Keith Tedford]

I started to work in GM Oshawa in the fall of 1965 as a tool and die apprentice at $2.21 an hour. I could have started at Quaker Oats for $1.10 an hour as a labourer. I spent 41 years at GM. Nothing was ever cheap. More than a few of us stayed broke buying $3500 - $4500 dollar new musclecars in the last half of the 1960s. Would go back and do it all over again.

 

[Rruuff Day]

I know the feeling Keith. My first job on the East coast was later than 65 but still only paid $ 1.15 an hour. Cars and girls were about the only things we thought about back then.... Come to think of it.... errrrr....never mind....

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Running away from the pack in Northern California or Nevada...anybody know?

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Anybody know what year that Corvette on the right is? Yes there is a Corvette there...

Odd that it appears to be a sports car event yet the track looks surprisingly like a dirt oval

 

[Rruuff Day]

Anybody know what year that Corvette on the right is? Yes there is a Corvette there...

Odd that it appears to be a sports car event yet the track looks surprisingly like a dirt oval

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hahaha.... good thing you told me there was a car in that picture Murray.... I think it's a 58 (if you were serious about the year of the Vette...hehe)...