Showing posts with label corvette. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corvette. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Monday, March 30, 2015
Kiddie Corvette Pedal Car Ballot Box
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1956 1957 Eska Corvette Pedal Car - Ballot Box
to win the "King of the Sidewalk Kiddie Corvette" Pedal Car you had to fill out a ballot and drop it in one of these official ballot boxes. This was found in the attic of a Chevrolet Dealership in Norfolk, Virginia.
In 1956, General Motors Corporation awarded The Eska Company of Dubuque, Iowa a contract to produce 1/3 size pedal car replicas of their recently redesigned Chevrolet Corvette. Like the full-size car, the smaller, "Kiddie" version featured a molded, almost dent proof, plastic body as well as a real chrome trimmed two-speed transmission and an authentic Corvette colors of white with red interior. With help from GM's Styling department, Eska scaled down the real car's dimensions and the "mini Vette" was said by some at the time to be "dead on" for its dimensions relative to the real thing. These cars were made primarily for dealerships and promotions and were not available to the general public so there is no exact count on how many were produced, could have been as low as 200 or as many as 2000.
Some of the events reportedly using these pedi-powered racers were the 1956 Chevrolet Featurama and the NASCAR Speed Week Performance Trials in Daytona Beach, Florida where children could participate in races for a chance to win a "Kiddie Corvette" of their own and, on a National note, the cars were featured on "The Dinah Shore Show" as part of the "See the USA in Your Chevrolet" contest.
Thanks to John, photos and info from http://www.ebay.com/itm/1956-1957-Eska-Corvette-Pedal-Car-Ballot-Box-Extremely-RARE-Never-used-/141617603467
Saturday, March 28, 2015
the little engine that could is in a 63 or 64 Corvette
"Can you hear me now" is pretty funny... as that looks like where some exhaust cut out dumps and frees up 10-15 horsepower instead of going out the muffler
that they used masking tape for numbers is a travesty
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Saturday, March 14, 2015
reasons to go see the NMCA West Coast Natls
When they fired up this Elk and rolled out, it set off car alarms... at a muscle car show, do you see what I'm saying? It was exponentially louder with the zoomies than any other car around
392 hemi in the T Bird, as a remake of a Hot Rod cover car
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Monday, January 26, 2015
cool paint design
Found on http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/1962-corvette-gasser-pics-wanted.247977/page-2
lace and licks, and I live the way they did the trunk. Cool rims too. This had more than one paint job, and was made into a glue together model by MPC
the box was found on http://www.showrods.com/showrod_pages/malco_vett.html
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
The earliest known Corvette race car, shipped to Smokey Yunick for race prep, went to auction this weekend, but didn't hit reserve
The earliest-known Corvette race car. This Daytona Beach "NASCAR Unit" was created by Chevrolet Engineering for NASCAR stock car racing, and was probably a dual branding effort between Chevrolet's Ed Cole and NASCAR's Bill France. This effort was part of Ed Cole's push to save the Corvette from extinction (700 sales in 1955) and Chevrolet's first effort in creating a brand image of speed and performance lasting through seven generations of Corvettes. This Daytona Beach NASCAR 1953 Corvette Convertible is one of two, a 1953 and a 1955, that were built/rebuilt by Chevrolet Engineering to be equipped with dual-quad high-output 1956 engines, 3-speed close ratio transmissions, heavy-duty rear end assemblies, plastic tonneau covers, small racing windshields and relocated gauges per Mauri Rose. Work was done by Chevrolet Experimental Shop and Garage, subject title: "Rebuilding of NASCAR Corvettes for Stock Car Racing," dated November 3, 1955. This project was under the direction of Ed Cole and the conversion was under the supervision of three-time Indy 500 winner Mauri Rose. Delivered to Smokey Yunick's shop Daytona Beach, FL, in early February 1956 in time for promotional NASCAR photos with Bill France Jr. and Joe Hawkins, and the subsequent February 12-26, 1956, Annual Winter Daytona Beach Classics, which included the 7th Annual International Safety and Speed Trials and Stock Car Races (race number 27). Prior to rebuild by Chevrolet Engineering, this 1953 VIN #211 and a 1955 Corvette VIN #399 were raced by NASCAR's legendary Thomas Brothers (Herb & Don), Junior Johnson, Jimmy Massey, Ralph Liguori, Johnny Dodson and Gwyn Staley at the Bowman Gray Stadium, Martinsville Speedway and Raleigh Speedway in 1955 (race numbers 55, 62 and 92). After the February 1956 Daytona Beach races, this car returned to the grit and grime of the legendary North Carolina NASCAR race tracks, primarily Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston Salem, where it was driven by Pee Wee Jones, Bobby Myers, Gwyn Staley, Junior Johnson, Ralph Liguori and Jimmy Massey with race numbers 3, 16, 27 and 116. In 1958, Mr. Leslie Gray Tuttle purchased #211 from NASCAR and received the GM MSO and became the first titled owner of #211, and over 50 years later, Mr. Tuttle provided conclusive evidence that helped identify #211 as the original NASCAR Daytona Beach and Carolina racer.
http://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1953-CHEVROLET-CORVETTE-ROADSTER-RACE-CAR-178496
I hadn't even heard that a James Garner L88 race Vette was up for auction
It didn't hit the reserve
http://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1968-CHEVROLET-CORVETTE-L88-RACE-CAR-CONVERTIBLE-178494
the 22nd factory-production L88 ever built, the second built in the 1968 model year, and one of the first-ever L88s with "cabin heaters." Race-prepared in 1967/1968 by Guldstrand Engineering. Pole Winner, GT class, 1968 Daytona 24 Hours. The history of the three James Garner/American International Racing (AIR) cars is unique in automotive history. James Garner's AIR team sponsored three cars under one banner. The three cars were all new L88s. Three factory-built L88 cars left the St. Louis plant for delivery to James Garner's American International Racing (AIR) team in November 1967. These three LeMans Blue convertibles were the first 1968 production models featuring the new L88 engine with first-generation closed-chamber aluminum heads. Of course, the cars were all Central Office Production Orders (COPO) a system that provided for an incredible range of production specifications. These three cars sold to the AIR team were effectively part of GM's strategy to manage the release of its most powerful cars to a carefully controlled list of approved customers. The drivers were Dick Guldstrand, Bob McDonald (Herb Caplan's crew chief) and Perry Moore (a former Caplan employee). Although delivery was recorded as being at Fred Gledhill Chevrolet, it is much more likely that the cars drove directly to the first AIR shop in Culver City, just two doors down from Dick Guldstrand's new shop. As soon as the Garner cars were delivered, the engines were taken to Travers & Coons (TRACO) to be prepared for racing. Upon arrival at Daytona, the two cars out-qualified all other FIA competition in their class. As a result, the two AIR team cars filled out the front-row positions for their class at the start of the race. Unfortunately, endurance races are the true test of all things mechanical, so it may not have been a surprise that these new cars could not keep up the qualifying pace. The #45 car (driven by Scooter Patrick, Dave Jordan and Herb Caplan) dropped out with a blown head gasket. The #44 car (driven by Dick Guldstrand and Ed Leslie) suffered through numerous problems with the rear differential. After changing differentials four times in that race, the team finished 29th, well down the field.
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