Chasing the Local legendary cars.

[Charley Lillard]

Today I rebuilt the carb, changed the plugs, scraped the glaze off the inside of the distributor cap and changed the oil in the yellow 67. It starts and runs great. Needed 2 quarts of auto trans fluid. Still has the orig dated plug wires on it and what looks like the orig GM smog pump belt. It still has the canister type oil filter and there happened to be a new Kmart filter in the silver car. Still have to stop by using the parking brake but.......

[budnate]

keep 'em coming, does the a/c blow cold?

[Charley Lillard]

Ha...I actually tried it but the compressor would not kick in. Evacuating and recharging is last on my list....way last.....

[Racefan]

It really is great to see some of these stories come true. There are some local legends floating around my part of rural Iowa. I guess I have to get off my behind and check them out, huh? Great job!

[copo9566aa]

Congratulations Charley
it's a fantastic dream for me
it is what I like best in this hobbie

James T Kirk

[Charley Lillard]

Thanks all. It is still kinda of a blur for me as it all happened so fast. Yes I am still pinching myself and feel pretty lucky. Even though I paid a bunch, I feel like a situation like this might never come around again. My business partner is still laughing because he sees how I just went to Car Heaven with the dream car find.. He says it would have been perfect for me if there would have been a couple Yenkos in there also.

[Belair62]

I think the owl poop was what tipped it in for you.

[Mr70]

You mentioned that there were originaly 7 cars in this Corvette owners collection.I'm Curious as to what the other 2 cars were that he sold years earlier?

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

the poop is the connection! The rallye green yenko camaro that the SuperCar Workshop restored for a customer was found covered with Peacock poop. Those are also some neat pictures.

[Charley Lillard]

The two that were sold years ago were a 59 and a white 62 Fuelie.