Nickey Corvettes at Road America?

ChrisS · #1 07-02-2002, 01:54 AM

Tim,I got the impression they were referring to the 2003 Road America event but, maybe I misunderstood. I'd like to find out as our Illinois chapter meet is the same weekend in Galena and I haven't figured out how to be in two places at the same time yet.
Is the car you purchased Jack Knab's old racer?

Rat_Pack · #2 07-02-2002, 12:03 PM

Stefano, I saw that COPO at Superfest last year, the owners name was Mike M. and it was a nice clone. The one question that everyone was asking at Dominos was if the bench seat was original. The trim tag shows a std black bucket seat interior 711 with 65-65 Olympic Gold exterior. Still a nice car though.................RatPack................

**Stefano** · #3 07-02-2002, 02:59 PM

Troy,
If it is the same car ,the trim tag was changed few times.
I never had the chance to see the original trim tag. When it was first cloned out it ran a Norwood X-11 tag, but was a Van Nuys built Camaro.

**TimG** · #4 07-09-2002, 08:36 PM

ChrisS,
I purchased the 64' roadster (looks like a 65) that was raced by Dave Rex from 67 to 70 and Dave MacClymont from 70 to 80. It had many victories at Road America including B Production championship in 68 & 69 and 2nd in 1970 and 2nd in 1972. John Greenwood came in first in 1970 in the same race. Dave Rex has built a clone to this car and raced it since 1984. I have the grid sheets, trophies and documentation from over 20 races it was involved in through 72', lots of impressive wins. It is an old warrior that is race ready, hauled it to Waco last weekend for an autocross and it is like a junk yard dog, mean and nasty. Dave Rex told me that Howard Winnen (?) of Nickey helped with the preperation of this Corvette.

Rat_Pack · #5 07-10-2002, 04:54 AM

Stefano, is this the car? It was all Van Nuys at Superfest last July, including the trim tag...................RatPack..............

**Stefano** · #6 07-10-2002, 06:49 AM

Rat_Pack,
It certainly looks like it. Skip has been detailing it for the past couple of years and making the car as correct as possible.

I haven't seen Dan Mamson in a while, but I did ask around about the status of the Bench seat. Dan is a bigger than average Guy and wanted the Bench seat for comfort, so he specifically sought out a bench seat car, and that seems to be the consensus ,but no one remembers for certain, other than the fact that he went to Californa or Arizona to pick it up himself.

Dan has owned a few Super Cars to include the popular Hugger Yenko Camaro Poster Car. A 1969 Yenko Chevelle and a Fathom Green Douglass Yenko M40 Camaro.

Skip's Hugger Camaro is a regular at the Lombard and Elmhurst Cruises.

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