Beauty

Out for a drive in the country...Guess this one answers my question about white dash coverings...

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Woman in back...Best investment I ever made, getting rid of the six and get some serious horsepower in this thing...

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Paul C& said:
Hey there MikeysZ06 , was there a Chevrolet plant there at one time?
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Paul, they built Corvettes in St. Louis for 27 years. They moved production to Bowling Green in 1981. :thumbs:
 
Just a few snippets of the whole stange story...........In 1990 October 1989, a Long Island carpenter by the name of Dennis Amadeo Amodeo won the prize of a lifetime for a Corvette fan: one of every year Corvette built from 1953 through 1989, courtesy of music television network VH1. Artist Peter Max soon acquired the cars for an ambitious art project that never materialized, and for 25 years the cars sat, largely ignored and only occasionally moved from one New York City storage location to another, until a New York Corvette fan and automotive consultant helped broker a deal to buy the cars. Now, thanks to their new owners, 36 pieces of Corvette history will soon be back on the road, and if all goes as planned, back on the market.
The story begins in 1989, when a television producer named Jim Cahill pitched an idea to the music network VH1 to boost its sagging ratings, particularly among baby boomers. A Corvette fan himself, Cahill suggested the network hold a contest to award one lucky winner 36 Chevrolet Corvettes, one from every year of manufacture up to the date of the contest.
The idea was given the green light, and as Sam Smith related in a 2010 Jalopnik article, Cahill spent $610,000 amassing the collection, which consisted largely of “driver” quality cars. Fourteen of the Corvettes were convertibles, and over 2/3 came equipped with automatic transmissions, yet that did little to diminish the appeal of the contest. To cover its costs, VH1 set up a 900 number, and entrants were charged $2.00 per call, of which the network received $1.49. In less than two weeks, it had recovered the full cost of staging the giveaway.
The morning after the VH1 giveaway, Max was awakened by a phone call from a friend, advising him that the cars had been given to a carpenter from Long Island. After hanging up the phone, the artist drifted back to sleep, only to have a vivid dream of the Corvettes driving onto a football field, cheerleaders standing atop them, while a man behind Max ate a hot dog with yellow mustard. In the world of the artist, truth really is stranger than fiction.
To learn more about the VH1/Peter Max Corvettes, visit VH1MaxCorvette.com.
 
NHRA F/Stock Record Holder "Buckshot" stretching it legs...Open headers the neighbours must love him!! :Biggrin:

 

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