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Originally Posted by NorCam
A local collector I know purchased a survivor 67 L89 Corvette about 10/12 years back and that's the one car I refer to as a true survivor. It's a Bloomington Gold Benchmark car and I believe it is known as a 4000 mile untouched car. One that many have referred to as being the nicest survivor 67 Corvette on the planet, and the type of car I would refer to as a true untouched survivor. Out of my league but a really cool car to see up close.
There are a few cars owned by collectors here that I think are equally as nice and love to see them cared for as they are.
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*May I ask what color this Benchmark Car is? Maybe Yellow or Silver? I kind of made it kind of my goal to keep track at the time.
The first 12 Corvettes to be Benchmark certified were displayed on the field in 1993 to take a picture of our car with us in it for an upcoming "Benchmark" calendar which never took place (I have since donated the framed 24" X 36" picture to the National Corvette Museum)
Patty in the Bloomington Gold office, was in charge of the license plate program (worked my way down to #21 plate being I was engaged to my Wife on the 21st., married on the 21st, first Child was born on the 21st, @ 2;10 in the afternoon AND it was -21 below 0 on the afternoon of the day he was born) always gave me an un-official count on how many Benchmark cars there had been Certified.
Brenda who distributed the Certificates, and the last time I talked to her was 2012 before Guy Larson bought the rights to Bloomington Gold, told me there was 141 total.
That is Not a lot of cars being at the time 1.8 million Corvettes had been assembled.
Bill