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They do look nice, but they are not correct for a 65. The KH wheels first became available on the 442 in 66.

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Yeah! . . . It's got a Hemi. 1 of 17 Hemi GTX convertibles.

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I know Ford was the only one to run Talladega's in NASCAR. But what about the other series like ARCA? Here's one (that's Benny Parsons):

https://i.postimg.cc/QxtC6JQQ/originalbennyparsons.jpg

I was just wondering how many Talladegas were bought from dealers and turned into race cars. Ford only needed to make 500 to get the car Homo'd and was losing about $1500 per car - yet they made 750 . . . 250 more than they needed to.

Same way I do business on car stuff. Lose a little on every deal, and try to make up for it with high volume. Good thing I have a day job.

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Rare 65 Corvette coming up for auction - has the N03 Big Tank option

This one?

Great Pic! The gentleman with Zora is Pat Bedard, former Chrysler engineer and long time journalist and tech editor for Car and Driver magazine. An Iowa farm boy who grew up near me. - Bill W

Have I ever shared: when I moved from the assembly plant to Chevrolet Engineering (Truck) - the guy that was retiring that I replaced used to work directly for Zora.

He shared a couple stories during our job transition.

Jim said you could be working away in the office area and all of a sudden you'd hear some god-awful rumbling take place in another part of the building and you knew Zora was firing something up. He also said you had to be careful when you were walking in the aisle ways, or crossing the test track, because Zora would run you over.

Jim also said that, during their many technical/engineering reviews, Zora would kick off their discussion by saying "...how arrrre you duu-ink?" After the engineer's long and elaborate presentations, Zora listening intently, he would leave while saying "duu da bist you caahnn".

I have taken to using that same introduction and dismissal, and my guys know exactly what I am referring to.

K

California plate is interesting

Agree.

Cars provided by the DPG would normally have an Arizona M plate; cars from either Milford or the Tech Center would have a Michigan M plate.

I recall that California did not have "reciprocity" with Michigan/Arizona when it came to plates, so they may have been playing it straight in this case. Or maybe the cars were provided by a California zone office.

In any case - we used to just blow right through when doing press shows or powertrain testing in California, without regard to which plates were hanging on the vehicle.

K

My dad made the die that made that truck grille, at Chevrolet Flint Manufacturing (Pressed Metal Division, aka "Chevy in the Hole").

The tooling used to break the punches off and you would run scrap until somebody noticed.

Back then you could be paid for suggestions that were implemented, with payment coming through the GM Suggestion Program.

He made enough money from suggestions on that part alone that he paid cash for our new '69 GMC pickup.

K