When This Guy Looked Inside His Deceased Friend’s Garage, He Unearthed A Rare ’70s Drag Racing Beast
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On a classic car forum, a new poster was causing quite a stir. He claimed to have bought a Corvette convertible, but his observations about the vehicle didn’t quite add up. Slowly, the bigger picture began to emerge, however, and the close-knit community realized that they might just have a real treasure on their hands.
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Memories...those days of dragging with open headers, adjusting points or changing the jet sizes in carburetors. I also remember watching my friend climb out of a 1970s Vette and burn the side of his bare leg on the still hot side exhaust pipe.
I actually have photos of a very very similar looking Vette Drag Racing at a couple of Different Tracks we raced at in Nebraska back in the 70's . We raced B/MP Class back when they still had Modified Production Cars as its own Class. We ran a Camaro SS with a 427.
The Corvette we saw around that one summer ( I will look up what year) had no name on the side but looked remarkably the same right down to the Cragar Wheels and the deck lid was blue and Stars and the stripe on the snorkel hood was more rectangular shape with equal amounts of red on each side. The guy who was hauling and driving it had like a 60's model Chevy Cab and sleeper cab with a Car Hauler on the back as was very popular back in the late 60's and 70's.
He was with his Wife we assumed, every time we saw him and we think he was from Wisconsin or Michigan ? Maybe Like I said it was in the mid 70's.
I know the car had 4spd Muncie because he sheared off some cluster teeth in Qualifying and bought a complete new Gear Set from a guy we knew that ran a Chevelle SS 396 4 spd in Super Stock class.
Anyway all of us pitted around him helped him R & R the Transmission and because that's what I did for a living at the time (built standard transmissions for a Transmission Shop) I pulled it down, he and his wife cleaned out all the metal shards and I put the complete gear set, and new cluster gear in and out it back together. ( The Gear set, Sliders and mainshaft were all hardened & Face Plated made for Drag Racing ) and it worked flawlessly and was a little quicker than his old set up.
We saw him at Bandamiere at Morrison Colorado later that Summer for a big NHRA Race and he was still running the trans I built and had never touched it since we put it back in. That was at Kearney Dragway @Kearney, Nebraska back when it was just an abandoned chunk of Airport Runway with a little tower and a little camper trailer and a Christmas Tree.
Oh those were the dying days of Drag Racing.
We never saw them again after that one summer. I wonder what ever happened to that Corvette it was a really nice looking and well built Race Car. Who ever built it knew what they were doing.
To make a long story short . Its an old dragcar. Setup early 70s style. the C-MP on the windows stands for C-Modified production. That is the class it was running in . If it was competitive in that class, it would have been turning 9's in the quarter mile. It would have a straight axle rearend, and most of them had high winding smallblocks with 4 speeds.
Spot on.
Just another old race car. Nothing special
@@2007bat old race cars are pretty darn special, especially when they run 9s.
wow, unbelievable...i remember in the late 70’s at a dealership in Shreveport then named “RoundtreeCadillac&Old’s” they had a 454ci Corvette i don’t know what year but it had the chrome bumper nose. the entire car was painted in a waving American flag w/ super wide tires around it w/ identical Ketstone or Crager 5spoke chrome mags on it. my dad cranked it because then they would leave the keys in the car. he knew everything about that the car had a big ass cam in it and sounded like thunder coming out the side exhaust. alot of chrome under the hood w/ electric fans. the car was beautiful & badazz at the same time. i could’ve been no more than 4or5 but it was one those moments you never forget. thanks for sharing this post
YES! It has been at Englishtown when I was young. I know that car! The c/mp coup mod. Saw it race.
I'd like to know what the wheels are so I can put them on my hot rod ?
This video left me with more questions than answers.
exactly how i felt.
😂😂
Here's a rundown. Guy gets deceased freinds car, goes on a forum, discovers it's famous, goes on to fix it.
😍 What a car! 60’s and 70’s corvettes are some of the most beautiful cars ever made.
63 split window big tank with factory air. Not many made even fewer survived.
@@scottouellette9411 I’d love to have a split rear window. The rear end reminds me somewhat of a small airplane! I love it
Wow! That is an amazing find. I had a child's one of 3 edition of a candy apple red corvette in the late 1960's. It was given to my Dad by the company. I don't recall why. I was only 3 or 4 years old. But I got to drive it in 9ur extremely large hall of a business building. Other children beat me up so my Dad sold it. It had been an awesome summer though, driving that thing. I find this totally believable be cause companies were not so cheap with their promotional advertising back then. It had been a mini version of what would be coming out the following year. Thank you for bring back a fond memory of all that sadly does no longer exist in my world. I wish I had at least one of the many photos my now late Mom had taken. This? This helps me visualize it again though 🤗😘
Jade, there has to be another reason why your dad sold the car. What's getting beat up have to do with it ?
Holy crap ! I saw this car race at martin 131 dragway in the 70s in martin Michigan ! It's proper name is "four star general", and this car would launch wheels up every time .I would love to own this car and do the show car scene and maybe a few exibition runs only with it .I remember seeing it race against hell on wheels drag military tank replica that particular day .hell somebody out there must have it on old 8 mm film as there were always cameras at these races . It would be cool if someone found this footage and posted it to you tube.
did you watch it race a challenger cause I got deystroyed
He was found dead with his organs missing
GOVERNMENT must have been involved hehe 😎👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
My uncle owned and rebuilt these cars .I recall seeing this either in a photo or in a magazine on the shop table when I was young really cool.
I've been to 131 many times lots of fun
So beautiful.From a different era,a snapshot in time!Fabulous.
It's stories like these that we will all be talking about in the future as our grand kids are filling up there spaceships. Right on !! Glad she will be coming out and about again for all to see.
Love the story intresting documentation makes the car more special thanks for sharing
Did the final details ever emerge regarding what this car started as? Someone said the trim tag looked like a '69. That, together with the ZL-1 engine is intriguing. Escaped ZL-1 test mule? Or, if the car is truly a '71, I believe those heads were also used on '71 LS-6 Corvettes...
Endless possibilities for a part swapping racer. A thorough investigation should reveal much. If VIN tag is gone, partial VIN should be on frame.
I was hoping to see a restoration 😔
Story of a Shelby Mustang and a Shelby Maverick in N. Va. Manassas area. Father worked as a body man for a local Ford dealership collected them during the gas crunch in the 70's. The Mustang was a Trade in. Needed a rear 1/4 panel. He bought it , got the 1/4 into prime and sat on it. Drove it once in a while around the neighborhood just to keep thinks working. When he past away, the family had to redo the home owners Insurance. Needed to up the Insurance on the garage becouse of the Shelby. They showed him the car, he gave an estimated value of the mustang and what they should insure the Garage for. They were taken back at what the Shelby was worth. The Insurance guy explained how Rare and Expensive Shelby's were. Hearing that they asked about another car covered up in the Garage. It was a Shelby Maverick from Mexico. The Insurance guy told them to double the Value of the Shelby.
Never seen them, but talked to plenty locals that used to see the guy drive it around the neighborhood. Now his Son does from what I understand.
My best friend just died from cancer in January, and there is a ready-to-restore 1970 Boss 302 in the garage. It was his first car that he got in high school, and he still had it when he passed at 55. How many people still have THEIR first car?
"I'll always be riding....with private Malone" 🤣
Good song.
@@truebetold65 same thing i thought!
My last year of high school and I was going to the prom. I'd just washed my F-150 and was about ready to leave when my cousin showed up in his black 1964 corvette stingray. He tossed me the keys and said "Have a good time". And I/we did.
thank you for sharing the video and story.
I don't remember seeing what looks to me like dominator holleys that long ago, they fresh looking. 6.60s ,had to have raced it on an 1/8th mile track. I don't believe a factory vette rear suspension would stand up like car in pics, looks like an old ladder bar set up to me. I like it but, some stuff ain't adding up to me , good story with hidden details I'm sure, good find to play with. Big block heads in box,who knows the combos the car has seen
I had a friend who left me a ford pinto - and his glass eye- he’s bad-ass
24 miles. Thats a quarter mile at a time. Lol. Really cool find and history.
Great video!
ha ha love those old 70s Cragar mags. I had a set of those at one time in the 80s.
The car trailer really dates this car, it has dexter style wheels , man that's old . The car is totally cool on every level , great find
4:28
Wish you would have given more info of what was under the hood. Great vlog & I bet it was a beast back in its day 😎
I take it back 68 and 69 corvettes had a push button outside door handle and no stingrays
Everybody has a TREASURE Car that they are GOING to RESTORE. Few get the task completed.
racinford1
Your so right, couldn't agree more. I currently own a 1976 last of the ones labeled stingray, have owned it for 25 years drive it occasionally, still a work in progress, it'll never get completed, so it seems, but hey I'll die off the kids will get it then they can sell it lol. Oh, and it has only 41, 000 original miles
My dream car is a suburban. Just needs oil cooler lines, and an oil change.
Without fabrication , body and electrical skills all that will get done is buying replacement part. Sad but true.. This Aint Legos
Like my 66 1/2 Cougar I never finished.
Well said
Rumor has it that P Virg is still waiting for Barrett Jackson or Mecum to give him a call. 10K car and a Million dollar story!!! 😂🤣😂
What a very nice video , not the sort of video i would watch but i really did enjoy this
That Vette was a beast car in it's time. Still is..
how much is it worth?
Hell! Tune it to 1600 HP and it can beat todays Super Cars
I use to watch this car race at Tompkinsville Kentucky and I think it raced at beach bend at Bowling Green Kentucky . I don't thank the car is famous the guy just said things that were not true, the car was not a rag top as he said. It was a good looking car but not fast enough to win the the race at a very small track. But it was something see a corvette pulling a corvette. If you look the photo of the car pulling the wheels in the lower right hand of the sign it has Kentucky on it. If I remember right the car was out of Louisville Ky. This was the early 70's . The two men look like they were in their 50's. The car ran two or three years around here . The car had to have more than 24 miles as he said in video.
GET TO THE POINT ALREADY!!!!
Yeah it was almost creepy. Why didn't the owner just spell out what he knew from the start, and this video was about as weird.
Yeah that video was super weird and creepy especially the "pe-vert" part
Stop oh shit get to the point chief for the gibberish
Apparently there wasn't one.
It took him half the video to figure out it was a drag car. Paint codes dont match? Obiously they wont, its got a custom paint job on it... 24 miles? Seems very fishy indeed... Its a drag car, it only goes down a 1/4 mile track; its not going to have 100,000 miles on it. All I had to do was look at the thumbnail to figure out the car's story.
Doesn't look like it needs 'restoring'. A good wash/ pressure wash, polish and interior clean + new battery and a service with new tyres /brakes and it'll likely be fine..
I'm not a Chevy fan at all... but God do I love a great story. And I love cars so much that who gives a shit what company it is... I just love the passion, good luck buddy
Why is the bonnet scoop different in the original photos to the one found in the garage
The Corvette was an advertisement/show piece, the same as the 429 BOSS cars were. While it's tow vehicle was a standard off the show room Corvette, the racing car was a General Motors one off vehicle. Unlike the BOSS 429's, only one "General"was ever built.
Keystone wheels look killer
I can't help but notice that the top of the tunnel ram is on backwards. With the front of the motor tilted up, as most are, the top is angled to make the carbs level not lean back. Very strange...
This is a beautiful piece of history and I hope he restores it to it's full and original state . 👍
That's an incredible find what a car
did you guys take that intro tune from a rush song?
Had one
Fourfiftyfour
Definitely not a Rush song.
What a sweet find!
I had a friend who said he and a friend had stolen an old corvette that was new back in the 60s when they took it and they had it stashed but I never knew where. They didnt know what they would do with it. They are both dead now and who knows whatever happened to it or where they stole it from. All I know is they were both from NW Iowa.
After my buddy passed, i found a 78 Chevette in the garage.
lozerboozer
I call those shoooowvets
I loved my 1979 Che-Vette
Shitvette
lozerboozer That's hilarious! One of my friends used to have one. The only way he could burn rubber was when a couple of us would hold the back of the car up with the back tires barely touching the ground. (Yes, them Chevettes were rwd)
Put well over 100,000 miles on mine.
Save yourself some time....he gives NO information about the motor or anything important for that matter....horrible
I'm sure he did since he was trying to repair it to get it running again. Check the forum.:-):-)
FYI, Motors run on electricity, engines run on fuel. Please pass this along as it is the biggest mistake people make when talking about cars. Tesla's have motors, Corvettes have engines. It is better to have people think you are stupid then to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
So motorsports is a bunch of Teslas racing. Gotcha.
Common misconception. Feel free to check the dictionary.
Dean Weiss So.....BMW stands for Bavarian Motor Werke, so they are all electric too?? Maybe you should take your own advice about keeping your mouth shut.
Similar situation to thats happening to my family my grandfather had a 68 Camaro SS that was plum purple and said shaky puddin on it, it was very well known where I live and my grandfather had sold it just before my uncle was born almost 50 years later that car has now been found and a friend of my mom from high school is trying to restore it back to the original that my grandfather had it as
Nothing beats a GM w round tail lights and split bumpers! My 1st hot rod I bought for 3500 was a 71 z28 lt one. It had 25000 miles and sold ten years later to Manny Fitzgerald for 19.5k I had 85000 miles on it. He repainted orig blue (electric) and is selling it for 40k obo. Nothing beats a heavy chevy
If they were good enough friends that he could take the corvette when he died then why does he know absolutely nothing about it
I had a great friend that died from cancer and left me his 1995 extended cab long bed chevy truck in his will. It is real a real ruff truck but he wanted me to have it. So I will never part with it. It needs a lot of work still but it dose run and drive good as long as it don't get to hot.
I have given you a like more likes for you okay will get friends to reach a thousand
Ruff truck? Rough truck :))
Good Ol Boy #76. Good thing it wasn't a ford. It wouldn't have been nothing but a junky burden
Justin Ray Styles ford circled the answer
Just do enough to keep it road worthy. I love my old Chevy truck. It's got dents on top of dings but she gets me there every time, and the a/c works!
Regardless, that's a history ride! Let it ride free! Hope to here more and see it drive.. Bad Ass Corvettes should never die, just have another chapter to tell..
I have come to the conclusion that there are more cars in people's barns than on the road. If I hear one more person say how rare a vehicle is I'll scream.
I know someone who has a rare 1957 pink Cadillac convertible
Cool story to hear about. Thanks
The manly urge to want to restore the car yourself just because you can and not because your an enthusiast of the car and then instead not take it to a museum even tho it deserves to be preserved in a museum as a piece of history for history nuts to enjoy
Wish I had a Vette. Sporty with huge balls!
Much respect to Vette owners..
Is there any documentation to prove he was given or bought the car in question?
Great story. Long live the Corvette!
Jay Kay
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa woooooooooot CORVETTE BABY
Great work! Very informative! So satisfied now!
This car needs to go to the Freedom Factory
Whatever happened to the matching tow Corvette? It would be cool to reunite them.
I wanna know what happened to the hood clearly in the picture when is was at the track if was the opposite of when it was stored
Truly the find of a lifetime.
A 40 plus year old car with a paint code that doesn't match the present paint color - who would have ever thought? Wrong color is not exactly a "red flag" moment. My last Corvette was black when I bought it and had previously been painted 5 different colors - it was less than 15 years old. The paint job was crappy and flaking off when I got it, making it easy to tell that each new color had been painted over the last. As a coincidence to this video, the Corvette I had before the black one came new in Safari Yellow and was Red when I bought it. A later owner restored it to it's original color. The red was much prettier. Now if we were talking about Daytona Yellow, my opinion would be different.
Nice video Thank you 😊
4:34 Vette pulling a Vette now I've seen everything pretty awesome car drag racing & low miles.
MALIK Zneas
I know what more could one ask for...
I've seen a Vette pulling a Harley...
Wes Sunde; Wooow that's picture perfect site to see
It looks like evel knievel's corvette
Frank Burdo ah but it would have white paint as its primary!
You spelt knievel wrong
What Triton said, spell his name right for god sake.
Well shit spell patrol is out.
Spell patrol is In full force but it looks as though he snuck in and changed it recently,But its too late we know he can't spell.
He took it and the LT1 to the Street Rod or Hot ROd National show in the last year or two...
They should keep both corvettes together😭
At first I thought it said When man locked deceased friend in garage I was so shocked
wow, love that car!!!
ghostt girl ghostt spook n
Me too ...
Very interesting story. Experts can be wrong. But there are cars that have been faked because of high prices. I was told of a local Corvette owner who claimed his 67 small block came from the factory with a big block stinger hood. He was the original owner. He said that it was delivered from the dealer with the stinger hood. Many said it must have been the dealer who installed the hood. He refuted that claim. Then some said it must have been installed at the factory when they ran out of small block hoods. An ex GM St. Louis plant supervisor said it was possible but there would be no records to prove that it happened. Short of an ex employee saying this is was happened it could not be proved. It really divided many Corvette people over this. In the end it's an owner saying this is factory and how the car came.
Dude the 69 corvette are fire that model my dream car is a 1969 Chevy corvette stingray split window
J-bro’s the split window was only produced in 63
Custom
First thing I thought was thanks for the history of the corvette and that it's a much loved American icon, can't believe I went 59 years with out knowing that
I was thinking the same thing. This guy always drags the story out.
lets not hope this car does not get destroyed by a sinkhole
Wjj should made a series video of this category
This music gives me serious metroid game boy vibes! :)
i hope the 2 cars can stay together somehow
Trump had them separated because one was brown.
SBLproductions fixed them
willysnowman that’s funny because that was a law put in place by Obama which trump just stopped my making the separation of families illegal dumbass
Meldins STI all in all, it's just another prick with no wall.
willysnowman construction is underway
Nice score
I saw the model set ,thought it was a deal 2 vetts and a trailor
I shared this video with my grandma. She just laughed and told me to pass the bong.
Yo your granny seems dope
Damn man this is the best comment I've ever seen
Oh my God oh my God I grew up loving Corvettes since I was a kid
Angel Bou
I grew up loving ladies and 'vettes... 😉
Angel Bou+ Same! And don't forget pretty Ladies, too!!
Angel Bou holy fuck!!!
Plot twist, its really the "General" Lee
The general lee is an orange 1969 charger with a confederate flag on the roof
If your so called friend died and never told you about his race car /project car trust me . . he never tought of you as a real friend.
thats not necessarily true, best kept secrets are the ones kept from everyone regardless their relation to you, and besides didnt he say he knew about the car for 20yrs or so.
@@strangelyfamiliar1729 Like to think that but I think ROTORHEADPR has a point.
Bad ass hood scoop
The guy's name was "P vert" lmao!
lil uzi vert
A He emphasises the g pretty clearly.
Mr. Rick Hendricks has a large selection of corvettes he could probably do the job Has a lot of pull with GM I know he would keep the cars together.
Threat level what? Midnight!
i would keep that paint style looks so cool some guys have all the luck lol
The narrator's feminine side must need exercise as it would normally take a man 2 minutes to describe this. Brevity is a virtue.
Yeah, he lost street cred for that. Push-ups and eating raw meat are the only way to get that back.
I seriously doubt a factory built race car would have rubber gas lines connected with standard screw clamps.
love those Keystone Classics
A video of it would have been nice.
Yeah some friend. He didn't even know it was there.
Amazing automotive engineering.....
Oh hell no again I step into another long-winded story........
That is a .. Beautiful car...
Corvettes are made to be maintained and enjoyed....clean er up and take er for a spin.
On the GM papers it says the car was made in Detroit, Mi and I live in Michigan and I have seen this car in multiple different barns all across Michigan, I have been trying to track down the owner and give him or her a price but every time I go to the barn we’re the car was it’s gone and I spend another two weeks looking for if
Take it to the National Corvette Museum!