The elusive Can Am found pics !

[Belair62]

I remember these too...in fact there was a later model..74 or so here local..2 tone silver with 6 tail lights...

[PeteLeathersac]

This look was cool at the time....not sure how I feel about it now? . These always remind me of the old Chevy Monza Trans-am series car w/ similar bodywork raced by Jim Adams and Chris Cord (E.L.'s grandson). ~ Pete

[ANDY M]

Remember the Mark Hamill movie "Corvette Summer"?
There was a thread here a while ago with pictures of that car.
Mark Hamill would like to forget the movie.

[budnate]

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Remember the Mark Hamill movie "Corvette Summer"?
There was a thread here a while ago with pictures of that car.
Mark Hamill would like to forget the movie.

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ummm except the van scenes......

[Mr. T]

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Remember the Mark Hamill movie "Corvette Summer"?
There was a thread here a while ago with pictures of that car.

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[olredalert]

-------The New York Worlds Fair car next to Hamills is probably my favorite mid-year Corvette of all time. Do any of you guys remember it from B/J two years ago??? Body modifications were way CQQL!!!!........Bill S

[PeteLeathersac]

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-------The New York Worlds Fair car next to Hamills is probably my favorite mid-year Corvette of all time. Do any of you guys remember it from B/J two years ago??? Body modifications were way CQQL!!!!........Bill S

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You're so right Bill, very cool and I think it's one of the S.O. (Shop Order) cars....fender exit sidepipes and a cool hood-dome kind've like the ones on '67 SS427 Impalas? . There was a few S.O. cars from this period made for the Bunkie Knudsen, Bill Mitchell, Harley Earl types and their wives too? . I think I remember reading one included an early Type 'O' casting 396....in a '64 car? .

Corvette Summer....wasn't that the show where the kid's school shop teacher turned out to be some big time international car thief? . The car still looks as dorky as it did back then!

~ Pete

[ANDY M]

Bunkie, Harly Earl and Bill Mitchells' Corvettes are here in Columbus, part of the Bob McDorman collection.



Check out the side pipes on the Ozzie Olson car.

[71 can am]

The corvette summer was a very radical custom, no way it could have any practical use on a race track, In my opnion a cool supercar, Has to look good & run good, In other words, A Wolf in Sheeps Clothing, Just stick on the #'s & go raceing, Then put it in the competition class in the Concourse same day. Been there , Done thst.

[olredalert]

-------The blue Bill Mitchell Vette behind the Olsen car went thru our dealership (Classic Motors) way back in about 1977/78. Used it to go back and forth to work on occasion. One of our buyers dug it up down around Louisville in the country.

-------Pete,,,The dome was actually an extended fuel injection lid that came thru the hood. Kind of like the first instance of a "shaker" design although there was no attempt at any cool air deal........Bill S