Jack Coyle was my father and I have lots of memories of his car. My two brothers and I sat in the front with him, my brothers in the passenger seat and I rode in between. He knew it was a special racing edition. He was a Plumber in Los Angeles, UA Local 78. When he got home from work he would head to the garage, put on his coveralls and work on his car. All the kids in the neighborhood would flock to his garage in Lynwood to watch him and ask questions.
@@HotRodHoardersome of us were lucky enough to have someone like that in our neighborhood. Car guys who didn’t mind having curious kids around and answering questions.
Outstanding job on this video, it had to be extra special for a Corvette guy that is a documentarian like yourself. Thanks for the opportunity to find out about this car
In California starting in 1957 you were given a sticker with the year of registration. It went on the rear plate in the space between the word California and black area with 56 in it. They used that plate until 1962. In 1963 they went to black plates some cars still have them in service today. Great video!!!!
Yep, came here to mention the same thing. California stamped many more 1956 plates than were needed. They issued them all the way through 1962! From ‘57-62, owners received a “tag” sticker for their registration that year, and stuck it on the rear plate only. All cars in CA would have had a clean “56” yellow/black plate on the front until 1963 when the state began issuing the famous black plates.
Another outstanding video, like all of your others. Really good stuff--as good as it gets. As an old guy and CA native, the ‘56’ CA plates were used from 1956 through 1962. The back plate had a year sticker from 57-62. The black plate, seen on this car later was issued in ‘63 and remained relevant and legit to the present day In fact, the last time CA obsoleted plates was in 1963. I have a ‘65 GTO with plates it was issued 60 years ago and they are still valid. Great stuff, your work and research is much appreciated and valued!
That is a very cool documentation of this Corvette. Fun fact: at the 11:47 mark in the video, you will see a Dodge CSS pickup truck behind the red number 220 Corvette. The CSS (Custom Sports Special) was a package available for the D100 and D200 Sweptline trucks. They are designated by the twin sets of stripes on the hood and had bucket seats from the Dodge Dart. The engine options varied from the slant 6, Poly 318, or could even be equipped with a 426 Wedge!!! Cool stuff!!!
You have done it again!!! Your skills are astounding!... I am not a Corvette expert and had no clue about big brake , airbox Vette's. It's a real testament to GM , and all the owners that this car survives. Im sharing this with all my Knucklehead Car Buddies!!!
Jack Coyle was my father, I was one of the brothers in the front seat. When our father would come pick us up I felt like the coolest kid in the neighborhood. I wish he was still with us to experience this story of his past.
I know what it's like to have the cool dad in the neighborhood. We're lucky to have those memories! Thank you for commenting, and I thoroughly enjoyed telling this car's story.
I love these terrific in depth features! My only want: at the end of the video show and tell me the significant features of this car. example: what IS an air box Corvette (?) and yada yada... Thanks for the hard work here, it SHOWS!
I always do my best to sneak in some education on the rare components. I covered the Airbox designation at 04:30 and also talked about the big brakes and heavy duty suspension package in that same couple minutes of the video.
Crazy cool... your Pikes Peak photos picture a car we rescued out of a Colorado barn in 2016 - 12:18 and again at 12:44 - Car 83 - 1963 silver Split window Z06 Coupe - Driven by Ron Bennett originally delivered to the Los Angeles Zone office in Feb of 63 then was given to local So Cal SSCA racer Bennett who campaigned the car - (car sold for $375k at Mecum Glendale Feb- 2024)
I've been a Corvette enthusiast for many decades like you and your dad. I've had midyears, been to all the shows, etc...Always wanted a '56 or '57. Just love the single headlight vs the later dual headlight cars. How long did the restoration back to factory take? NCRS or Bloomington awards? Doesn't matter... it is great and the story is icing on the cake!
We were invited and took the car to Bloomington Gold Collection in 2024 { Salute To The FUEL INJECTED CORVETTE } It took us about 5 years to find all the parts and restore the car.
That’s a tough call for sure. The quality of the restoration is top notch and truly does the car justice, even though the old paint told quite a story.
The 1956 plates were used from 56-62. For 57-62 they gave a sticker that went on a tab on the the back plate only. There is one of the B&W shots at Pomona Fairgrounds - one could also be Dodger stadium. The first red 220 photo is at Willow Springs.
Not a corvette guy but this ------ only 1 word ----- Wow ! Talk about survivors! the owners AND the car. Question ? what 283 did they put in the restored car?
It is a tremendous story of survival. I don't know this for fact, but my assumption is that the original 283 expired long before Troy Mason blew up the engine on the drag strip. I would imagine Dale and crew put a date-correct 283 and injection unit with correct components throughout.
My cousin had a Corvette just like this when I was in the 5th grade. It was black. He always came back to Petaluma to visit because my father was his favorite uncle. I got a ride on it. We went out Petaluma blvd where the drive in, now a mobile home park, is now.
The date on the plates is when they first came out from the DMV in California and ended in 63 when they went with black with yellow letters the 56 does not not year of registration unless it was in 56 I have the Same plates on my 62 dodge
I found new air box in Texas. Bought it from Dave Ewan who was Vice President in NCRS. Dave restored his air box car in 1990. He bought the air box from Dick Robinson who was only person licensed to remake them for Gm. He said he talked Dick into making him two of them. He still had one of them stored in his basement and sold it to me for what he paid for it in 1990.
Sadly soon all combustion cars and trucks including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025 on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas station per city or county. Car washs will be forbidden too because they are climate killers, now they want to slow down all the gas station pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of crime here, called emissions and smoke crime.!!! (BABVVEN & TEBBVEN & BEFVO laws)
I'm not sure about that. I would imagine the engine that Troy Mason blew up at the drag strip wasn't the original 283. I'd say with so much racing, the original engine expired before then. The engine that came with the car when Dale bought it appears to have been a 327/365hp engine from a C2 Corvette but I could be wrong.
@@HotRodHoarder My grandad worked a Chevy dealership in the 50,60, and 70 s and he said when they first started selling the fuelies, they had no one who understood the Rochestor Injection and not much if any factory support, so when they had a major problem with a customer car(sedans and hardtops) with Fi, they just put in a reman 4 barrel engine and sold the take outs for parts or junked them.
I was Military stationed on Okinawa, and about 1977 bought a 61 fuelie from a junk guy who was disappointed because the body was not metal. It was a 4 speed set up for racing, injection replaced by 3x2s, headers and cut outs. Frame was totally rusted. Previous owner was a U.S. Civilian who went to Viet Nam and never returned. Japanese would not allow me to register without documentation from origonal owner. He had left the car with his girlfriend and she married and disposed the car. I took the ID tag off the steering column and misplaced it. Ended ip selling body and chassis to a local. I was stationed again on Okinawa 1984, and one of our Civilian Contractors told me he bought a Corvette. Same car, someone had put a new frame under it, but still on identification. I was back there about 20 years later and saw it sitting near Torii Station, visible from the road. In the 50-60 and early 70s the Okinawa Sports Car Club held many events. One event was a Hillclimb, called "King of the Hill". It was at Yaedake, or could have been Yoza dake, my memory is soft on that. Big Healys were usually top dog. It was amazing what ghe GIs could do with practically nothing.
If the car was built on September 6th of 1957, how could it have been issued 1956 license plates? Did Doc Brown and Marty McFly have something to do with this car especiallysince the photo is from1959??? LOL..
I have since learned that California plates retained the date they were issued and were not updated every year like other plates. Whoops, I didn’t know that. So I’m assuming these were the plates issued for the 57 Bel Air that he traded in on it.
The current sticker date tag only rides on the back license plate in California in the early days day stamped the series of the license plate was and that’s the stamp you see on the front whatever maybe whatever year that doesn’t mean that that’s the year that it’s registered in at that momentmeans that’s the year the plate was made
Just so you know Okinawa was not Japanese until the US gave it to Japan back in 1972 or 1973.i was stained there in 71-72 and they were having riots because the natives were not Japanese they were Chinese.The Japanese invaded Okinawa in WWII .
Jack Coyle was my father and I have lots of memories of his car. My two brothers and I sat in the front with him, my brothers in the passenger seat and I rode in between. He knew it was a special racing edition. He was a Plumber in Los Angeles, UA Local 78. When he got home from work he would head to the garage, put on his coveralls and work on his car. All the kids in the neighborhood would flock to his garage in Lynwood to watch him and ask questions.
Oh wow thank you so much for commenting and sharing those memories. That’s so great!
@@HotRodHoardersome of us were lucky enough to have someone like that in our neighborhood. Car guys who didn’t mind having curious kids around and answering questions.
Outstanding job on this video, it had to be extra special for a Corvette guy that is a documentarian like yourself. Thanks for the opportunity to find out about this car
Thanks for watching Steve. Definitely a special car!
My favorite video yet..Thanks. I have a 56 Corvette and love the early history of these cars.
Thank you for watching! Take care of that ‘56!
Never knew about the race spec suspension, brakes and wheels.steering rack, cool. That car is more traveled than I am, nice job bringing it back Dale!
Thank you for watching! I learned a lot about these cars too.
This is a very cool story thank you for sharing
Thank you for watching!
In California starting in 1957 you were given a sticker with the year of registration. It went on the rear plate in the space between the word California and black area with 56 in it. They used that plate until 1962. In 1963 they went to black plates some cars still have them in service today. Great video!!!!
Thank you for the info, I had no idea!
Yep, came here to mention the same thing. California stamped many more 1956 plates than were needed. They issued them all the way through 1962! From ‘57-62, owners received a “tag” sticker for their registration that year, and stuck it on the rear plate only. All cars in CA would have had a clean “56” yellow/black plate on the front until 1963 when the state began issuing the famous black plates.
Great video, lots of detail, well put together. Honestly, I had never heard of an "air box" Corvette (but I'm not a Chevy guy). Thanks!!
Thanks for watching! These airbox cars are pretty special…I learned a lot about them making this video.
Another outstanding video, like all of your others. Really good stuff--as good as it gets. As an old guy and CA native, the ‘56’ CA plates were used from 1956 through 1962. The back plate had a year sticker from 57-62. The black plate, seen on this car later was issued in ‘63 and remained relevant and legit to the present day In fact, the last time CA obsoleted plates was in 1963. I have a ‘65 GTO with plates it was issued 60 years ago and they are still valid. Great stuff, your work and research is much appreciated and valued!
That's so cool. Glad to learn that about California plates. Thank you!
I'm not a 'Chevy guy' but this story was great. It kept me glued. Well done!
Thank you for watching, glad you liked it!
Great video, thanks for posting all this about a very unique corvette.
Thanks for watching!
Wow. What a great history from this little beauty. Thanks champion. 👍🇦🇺
Thank you for your continued support!
I like old Fords, but more than that I like the stories that classic cars bring along. Big thumbs up on this video.
Thanks for watching. The stories of these old cars often get forgotten, so for this one to have its complete history told is pretty cool.
This is a great story! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for watching!
Wow, what a great story.
Thank you for watching!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS VIDEO
Thank you for watching!
A 56 Corvette is my Dream car!😮, great video 👍❤
Thanks for watching Daniel!
Gret story,outstanding work on your behalf...thank you
Thank you for watching!
That is a very cool documentation of this Corvette. Fun fact: at the 11:47 mark in the video, you will see a Dodge CSS pickup truck behind the red number 220 Corvette. The CSS (Custom Sports Special) was a package available for the D100 and D200 Sweptline trucks. They are designated by the twin sets of stripes on the hood and had bucket seats from the Dodge Dart. The engine options varied from the slant 6, Poly 318, or could even be equipped with a 426 Wedge!!! Cool stuff!!!
Wow, I've never heard of the CSS package. That's super cool, thanks for the info!
You have done it again!!!
Your skills are astounding!...
I am not a Corvette expert and had no clue about big brake , airbox Vette's. It's a real testament to GM , and all the owners that this car survives.
Im sharing this with all my Knucklehead Car Buddies!!!
Thank you for the kind words...I enjoy doing this stuff!
Great story, super bad ass car!!! I learned a little too, you did an excellent job laying out the video.
I learned a lot about these cars too. Thanks for watching!
You tell a good story young man. Thank you. Good to see a piece of history restored and on display.
Thank you for watching!
Love these details about the life of old cars.
Thank you for watching!
Great content as always.
Thank you for watching!
TLB, this is some fine journalism! Thx for sharing amazing car and even more amazing story! Kudos!
Thank you sir, glad you enjoyed it!
Another great story my friend!
Thank you sir!
Great video as always. To clear up the license plate confusion, California used those 1956 license plates all the way through 1962.
Thank you for clearing that up. I had no idea!
What an amazing story
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Nice Video on the 1957 Air-box Corvette. Thanks for sharing this rare car. 💯👍💕
Thank you for watching!
Great car with a great history. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed it!
What a story, always learning something from your channel. Good job.
Thank you for watching, I had fun making this one.
Another spell-binding story!
Thank you for watching, definitely a special car!
Wow❤ although I dug that look of it in yellow with cragars on the front and black steelies on the rear
Oh yeah I love the yellow setup. I wish there were more pictures of it like that.
22:36 my pappy is in the pic, he hauls this rig everywhere Earl Dale wants. Car looks amazing now
Jack Coyle was my father, I was one of the brothers in the front seat. When our father would come pick us up I felt like the coolest kid in the neighborhood. I wish he was still with us to experience this story of his past.
I know what it's like to have the cool dad in the neighborhood. We're lucky to have those memories! Thank you for commenting, and I thoroughly enjoyed telling this car's story.
I love these terrific in depth features! My only want: at the end of the video show and tell me the significant features of this car. example: what IS an air box Corvette (?) and yada yada...
Thanks for the hard work here, it SHOWS!
I always do my best to sneak in some education on the rare components. I covered the Airbox designation at 04:30 and also talked about the big brakes and heavy duty suspension package in that same couple minutes of the video.
Great video. Miss you Grandpa Jack
That's so awesome. Love seeing Jack's family members chime in...sounds like he was a great guy!
Crazy cool... your Pikes Peak photos picture a car we rescued out of a Colorado barn in 2016 - 12:18 and again at 12:44 - Car 83 - 1963 silver Split window Z06 Coupe - Driven by Ron Bennett originally delivered to the Los Angeles Zone office in Feb of 63 then was given to local So Cal SSCA racer Bennett who campaigned the car - (car sold for $375k at Mecum Glendale Feb- 2024)
WOW! That's awesome. There are a few other pictures of Ron's Z06 in the Jack Coyle photo collection. They must've been pretty good friends.
wow that car has lived a life glad its story could be told
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!
Very cool it was found close to me.. Clay city is also my home track! Great story!
That's awesome, thanks for watching!
I've been a Corvette enthusiast for many decades like you and your dad. I've had midyears, been to all the shows, etc...Always wanted a '56 or '57. Just love the single headlight vs the later dual headlight cars. How long did the restoration back to factory take? NCRS or Bloomington awards? Doesn't matter... it is great and the story is icing on the cake!
We were invited and took the car to Bloomington Gold Collection in 2024 { Salute To The FUEL INJECTED CORVETTE } It took us about 5 years to find all the parts and restore the car.
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Wow that's awesome.
Thank you for watching!
What an epic story the zr1 of the day! What are the odds a car driven as it was designed to survive all the battles it did. How great is that!
It's hard to believe it survived racing for all those years and traveling across the ocean.
Awesome!!
Thank you for watching!
Thanks great info !
awesome! 👍
Thanks for watching!
Great video
Thank you for watching, glad you liked it!
Very well done sir!
Thank you for watching!
Good grief that’s a stunningly beautiful car
Really interesting, well done
Thank you for watching, glad you liked it.
5:25 I see a sway bar out back. Was that standard for Corvettes of that era?
Rear sway bar was not standard equipment until 1960.
Great video man- shame they couldn’t keep it like it was - all the history wiped
That’s a tough call for sure. The quality of the restoration is top notch and truly does the car justice, even though the old paint told quite a story.
The 1956 plates were used from 56-62. For 57-62 they gave a sticker that went on a tab on the the back plate only. There is one of the B&W shots at Pomona Fairgrounds - one could also be Dodger stadium. The first red 220 photo is at Willow Springs.
Thank you for the information!
Mind blown!
Thanks for watching!
What a lucky find.
I want to be that lucky one day haha.
Not a corvette guy but this ------ only 1 word ----- Wow ! Talk about survivors! the owners AND the car. Question ? what 283 did they put in the restored car?
It is a tremendous story of survival. I don't know this for fact, but my assumption is that the original 283 expired long before Troy Mason blew up the engine on the drag strip. I would imagine Dale and crew put a date-correct 283 and injection unit with correct components throughout.
My cousin had a Corvette just like this when I was in the 5th grade. It was black. He always came back to Petaluma to visit because my father was his favorite uncle. I got a ride on it. We went out Petaluma blvd where the drive in, now a mobile home park, is now.
Oh man that sounds like a fun ride down the boulevard as a kid or an adult. Cherished memories I'm sure!
One of those pictures was at Cotati raceway in Rohnert Park (cotati) California.
Oh wow, I didn't realize that. Some of the old pictures didn't have any notations as far as the location. Thanks for pointing that out.
How cool, I live in clay city!!!
That’s awesome! Sure would’ve loved to see this car drag race back in the day. Sounds like it’s drag racing days were pretty short lived.
@HotRodHoarder ill definitely keep a eye out. People post old videos of drag races all the time from clay city.
5:38 and 11:35 may go together.
Home of the corvette. Boring Green Ky!
Yes, lots of Corvette love in Kentucky.
The date on the plates is when they first came out from the DMV in California and ended in 63 when they went with black with yellow letters the 56 does not not year of registration unless it was in 56 I have the Same plates on my 62 dodge
Ahhhh I didn’t know that. Thank you for the info.
Did they fabricate the air box,
Or did they find one to restore?
I found new air box in Texas. Bought it from Dave Ewan who was Vice President in NCRS. Dave restored his air box car in 1990. He bought the air box from Dick Robinson who was only person licensed to remake them for Gm. He said he talked Dick into making him two of them. He still had one of them stored in his basement and sold it to me for what he paid for it in 1990.
Thanks for chiming in Dale...great info!
Sadly soon all combustion cars and trucks including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-(
In Germany the Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025
on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas station per city or county. Car washs will be forbidden too because they are climate killers, now they want to slow down all the gas station pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of crime here, called emissions and smoke crime.!!! (BABVVEN & TEBBVEN & BEFVO laws)
I'm hoping something changes soon.
When they tore down the blown engine, what malfunctioned?
I'm not sure about that. I would imagine the engine that Troy Mason blew up at the drag strip wasn't the original 283. I'd say with so much racing, the original engine expired before then. The engine that came with the car when Dale bought it appears to have been a 327/365hp engine from a C2 Corvette but I could be wrong.
@@HotRodHoarder My grandad worked a Chevy dealership in the 50,60, and 70 s and he said when they first started selling the fuelies, they had no one who understood the Rochestor Injection and not much if any factory support, so when they had a major problem with a customer car(sedans and hardtops) with Fi, they just put in a reman 4 barrel engine and sold the take outs for parts or junked them.
My parents bought the first Ford Falcon wagon sold in 1960, and we had the black plates with yellow numbers!?🤔🤨
Interesting. I'm learning more and more about California plates.
I was Military stationed on Okinawa, and about 1977 bought a 61 fuelie from a junk guy who was disappointed because the body was not metal. It was a 4 speed set up for racing, injection replaced by 3x2s, headers and cut outs. Frame was totally rusted. Previous owner was a U.S. Civilian who went to Viet Nam and never returned. Japanese would not allow me to register without documentation from origonal owner. He had left the car with his girlfriend and she married and disposed the car. I took the ID tag off the steering column and misplaced it. Ended ip selling body and chassis to a local. I was stationed again on Okinawa 1984, and one of our Civilian Contractors told me he bought a Corvette. Same car, someone had put a new frame under it, but still on identification. I was back there about 20 years later and saw it sitting near Torii Station, visible from the road.
In the 50-60 and early 70s the Okinawa Sports Car Club held many events. One event was a Hillclimb, called "King of the Hill". It was at Yaedake, or could have been Yoza dake, my memory is soft on that. Big Healys were usually top dog. It was amazing what ghe GIs could do with practically nothing.
Wow, that's pretty wild! Thank you for sharing that and thank you for your service!
california never had a 57 dated plate. plate is correct for the car
Race car
Indeed it is.
If the car was built on September 6th of 1957, how could it have been issued 1956 license plates? Did Doc Brown and Marty McFly have something to do with this car especiallysince the photo is from1959??? LOL..
I have since learned that California plates retained the date they were issued and were not updated every year like other plates. Whoops, I didn’t know that. So I’m assuming these were the plates issued for the 57 Bel Air that he traded in on it.
@HotRodHoarder ok. That's still weird...lol
Thank you for watching!
The current sticker date tag only rides on the back license plate in California in the early days day stamped the series of the license plate was and that’s the stamp you see on the front whatever maybe whatever year that doesn’t mean that that’s the year that it’s registered in at that momentmeans that’s the year the plate was made
Got it, thank you for the info!
Great video. Text messages? From 1960.
Just so you know Okinawa was not Japanese until the US gave it to Japan back in 1972 or 1973.i was stained there in 71-72 and they were having riots because the natives were not Japanese they were Chinese.The Japanese invaded Okinawa in WWII .
I had no idea! Thanks for the info.