'68 L71 Corvette
 

Was recently able to purchase this '68 from another member here on the site. I've had my eyes on it since he picked the car up and was able to put something together a few weeks ago. Always nice dealing with someone who gets it.

L71
M21
G81/4.11
F41

According to the tank sticker the hardtop and P01 were added later on(oddly enough the date code on the hardtop glass is the same as the rest of the car), shows 22k miles i believe that's accurate. I've started to track down ownership history and was able to get ahold of an owners daughter who claims she has pictures of the car and her dad racing it back in the day. Ill be building an engine for the car in the coming months to hopefully go pure stock racing/street drive the car some.

Take note of the warranty letter from GM to the owner denying the warranty claim with 13k miles on the car. Drivetrain is NOM now but I'm trying to track what may have happened to it.

White-Allen is still in business and I've reached out to them to see if they still have anything, the original selling dealer i cant find any info on.

Marriot Chevrolet Continental, OH (original selling dealer)
White-Allen Dayton, OH (dealer who did warranty work in '71)

Congrats! Beautiful 435!

Beautiful!

So did the guy put a 390HP in or swap the intake?

Wow, what a great car with great paperwork. I'm surprised that GM did not warranty the engine, what did they know that caused them to deny the claim?

Keep us posted on your progress with the car.

Warranty claim was denied due to over rev is what ive been told, it also states this in his letter to gm.

Currently in the car is a 289 block 454,291 heads and a ls6 intake, my friend bought it as a roller. I have the correct intake and carbs and as he rounded that stuff up before i purchased it. Ill be building a 427 for it.

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Awesome car and story also great to see the L71 legible on the Tank Sheet.
You’re right, there’s little of Marriott Chevrolet’s existence online now.
Their Dealer Code 09-395 is not listed on the NCRS site but Member fsc66 likely has it.
Owner/Operator Paul Marriott passed in ‘02, lmk if you want his Obit and I’ll post or PM.
Did you see this ‘57 Matchbook on eBoy…https://www.ebay.com/itm/177474998815
Thanks for sharing, looking forward to your progress!
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~ Pete

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I’ll take anything I can get, thanks for the response.

Congratulations on the 68 L71.
Looks a little similar to our 68 LOL.

I worked in the service dept at Luby Chevrolet in Boston 1967-72 and never saw a blown engine warranty claim denied it was always the solid lifter engines that blew up there was a corner of the shop where all the blown blocks were located i remember the zone rep would come once a month and look at them and beat on them with a small sledge hammer so they could not be re-used mostly broken valve spring with piston damage or a rod through the side of the oil pan.

My experience at Schukei Chevrolet here in Waterloo as well.

This is a solid lifter car, the second piece of paperwork is the “original owner” stating he disagreed with the gm reps denial of the claim of it over revved.

1967 -70 5/50 warranty only time i remember a claim denied if the car had headers on it meaning it was altered from stock

Beautiful car :drool:
If a former owners daughter has pics of it being raced "back in the day", maybe the rep had pics of it being raced before the engine blew too... :dunno:

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Here’s Paul Marriott’s obit, may as well be here for anyone else to find too.
Looks like someone nabbed the Marriott Matchbook on eBoy, hope it was you.
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~ Pete

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It was me, looks like there was a ‘58 also I prefer the tri five cars so I guess it was more fitting, thanks for the info and happy new year.

Chad