So Charley....Gonna tell everyone what you bought?

[Charley Lillard]

bill....Go catch me a firefly....

[sYc]

Zl-1 #1 and Howie's car would be a nice race. A couple of DH tuned Gibb cars going at it. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/[/img]

[DW31S]

Hey Bill Porterfield, Dave Siltman here (DW31S):
Whatever became of the Gibb Nova that John Hooper had? I kinda remember you found it for him, and he was trying to make a racer out of it. Then out of thin air it vanished! And..........wasn't that car RED???

[NovaMob03]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: DW31S</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hey Bill Porterfield, Dave Siltman here (DW31S):
Whatever became of the Gibb Nova that John Hooper had? I kinda remember you found it for him, and he was trying to make a racer out of it. Then out of thin air it vanished! And..........wasn't that car RED??? </div></div>

That's the one (#21/Grecian Green) Kim H found, sold to Bill, went to Hooper, Larry S-on west coast, to me, Tom L in WI, then auctioned at Mecum &amp; now in Odessa TX (from what I was told). The new owner got a smokin' deal on it.

Bill has always treated me right when it came to giving me the original paperwork to any of my Gibb cars. He's been a good 'caretaker and facilitator' of the Gibb Supercar documents IMO [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]

[William]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: NovaMob03</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: DW31S</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hey Bill Porterfield, Dave Siltman here (DW31S):
Whatever became of the Gibb Nova that John Hooper had? I kinda remember you found it for him, and he was trying to make a racer out of it. Then out of thin air it vanished! And..........wasn't that car RED??? </div></div>

That's the one (#21/Grecian Green) Kim H found, sold to Bill, went to Hooper, Larry S-on west coast, to me, Tom L in WI, then auctioned at Mecum &amp; now in Odessa TX (from what I was told). The new owner got a smokin' deal on it.

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The car was owned here in WI by an associate of a group of guys I've known for 30+ years. No body tag and a junk slapped-together engine that had a major failure while being driven home from a car show. No pleasant memories here.

[Schonyenko2]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: William</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: NovaMob03</div><div class="ubbcode-body">[quote=DW31S]Hey Bill Porterfield, Dave Siltman here (DW31S):
Whatever became of the Gibb Nova that John Hooper had? I kinda remember you found it for him, and he was trying to make a racer out of it. Then out of thin air it vanished! And..........wasn't that car RED??? </div></div>

That's the one (#21/Grecian Green) Kim H found, sold to Bill, went to Hooper, Larry S-on west coast, to me, Tom L in WI, then auctioned at Mecum &amp; now in Odessa TX (from what I was told). The new owner got a smokin' deal on it.

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The car was owned here in WI by an associate of a group of guys I've known for 30+ years. No body tag and a junk slapped-together engine that had a major failure while being driven home from a car show. No pleasant memories here.
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The motor was built by Larry S.

[sYc]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: DW31S</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hey Bill Porterfield, Dave Siltman here (DW31S):
Whatever became of the Gibb Nova that John Hooper had? I kinda remember you found it for him, and he was trying to make a racer out of it. Then out of thin air it vanished! And..........wasn't that car RED??? </div></div>

Dave, I am sure Kim can add more details, but the story I heard was pretty close to what you heard. Because it once had a roll cage, and no trim tag, it was going to become the Red ’68 Gibb racecar, but when word filtered out about it actually being a green car, that is when it kind of disappeared.

[396L35]

Welcome Bill....

[William]

Someone was asleep at the wheel. The crank broke and took out the block. No it was not abused.

[NovaMob03]

Unfortunately true, William.
When I purchased the (unrestored) Nova from Larry the engine/trans/rear was already built and since he had 5 (1 pro mod record holding) drag car's &amp; said the motor was built right (by one of his shop guys-unsupervised) I had no reason to not doubt his word(Larry was also stricken with cancer, but was still racing).

I regret not having the engine checked out. Eventually, I helped Tom find a 440 block from another sYc member which made the car 'more correct', but it was an old Iowa race car that'd lost it's orig component's long before Kim even found it.
When Tom took it to auction @ Indy I strongly suggested he reconsider, but he'd been told he'd get a prime Fri or Sat spot and it would sell well. That didn't happen &amp; it sold around 50K