Re: Grand Sport #1
-------Funny story, We restored GS1 the first time at Classic Motors back in about 1978 or so. At that time the only guy who even showed a smattering of interest in the car at the price my boss thought it was worth wanted the car red! So it was painted Ferrari red with red leather interior, and was sent off to Wisconsin. I think we took about 15 cars and some cash in trade. NO.1 has since been restored to a much higher degree of originality than our 1st attempt, but our first attempt was absolutely beautiful. Its in that form that the car appeared in Corvette News after they saw it at Bloominton Gold that year. Cant remember who has it now but it is certainly the worlds most valuable Corvette. The 200mph speedo was missing and thru a really weird bunch of circumstances I fell into the original speedo that came on the car. It had been sitting on the mantle of one of the former owners as a rememberance of the car............Bill S
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