Vettefest

[matt murphy]

Killer Show ! ! ! !

My favorite . . ., I just can't get into those Corvairs. Cool concept, but not enough cubes for me. I might have to pick one of the three Fathom Green Yankos (Jim Parks was restored with new quarters, low mileage and beautiful none the less) and that Garnet Red '69 Nova was nice, I have to say that the funny car of Tom's was a neat piece to admire, Holubs Hemi motor was nice, but I bet the Grumpy motor might give it a scare [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif[/img] Matt Bergers Blue 427 conv. 2002 Hot Rod car was a great combination of color and performance . . . BUT, the best of show for me was Barnhardts Original '69 ZL1 (Porterfields a close second) I love the drag race versions. By the way, I brought a few of my own . . . [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/[/img] See ya at the next show . . . [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif[/img] Honorable mention goes to Charlies '67 Indy Pace Car, but when I worked at Dan Young Chevy in the early 80's I had it looking very clean, not to say Charlie didn't clean it that well, HAHA, The brakes always worked when I worked on it though . . .

[CamarosRus]

Here's Frank Arone's COPO.........

[CamarosRus]

and ............

[CamarosRus]

and Charley's ZL-1

[CamarosRus]

and................

[copo9566aa]

Thanks for the cool clean and shining pictures. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif[/img]

[shor]

I really liked the 2002 White "Grumpy's Toy" ZL-1.
And it is the last of the run #69 [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif[/img]
Matt, What is a phase IV engine? and what kind of manifold was on that car? wow!

[Mr Yenko]

Thanks Chris for the picture, Looks like I missed an AWESOME SHOW.Looking foward to York 30 #3.See you guys soon.
The "MOF"

[MosportGreen66]

Thanks for the picture guys! Does anyone have any pictures of the regular cars that were showed at the Vette Fest? I would like to bring my cars down next year but I would like to see some competition. I can pay for a cd, or maybe you guys could post some more pictures here. Thanks. Let me know.

-Dan

[matt murphy]

A Phase IV 427 or what we called a SR427. It was our first attempt at building a solid roller 427 race engine. It required a lot of special parts internally and externally. Ext. it required new valve covers which were specially cut out of billet to handle the taller rockers and has ZL1#69 engraved in them, as was the intake that our engine shop and Wilson Manifolds worked together to make this one off custome intake for this motor. $5000 for the intake and $1000 for the valve covers. The custom throttle body hopefully will be here this week so we can test it for the final time. It is making 585HP to the rear wheels with a stock LS1 throttle body, that is just under 700HP to the flywheel. Grumpy himself was involved with this project and said that he was interested in driving the car when it is finished. He signed the car and a contract with GMMG on the car. What a great guy . . . [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif[/img]