Mander Chevrolet , North Vancouver

[budnate]

OMG that thing has more scoops than Dairy Queen

[StriperSS]

Funny, I was in North Vancouver last week doing some stripes for a guy, who also has 3 hemi cars. We discussed a lot of things, but I never thought to ask about Conroy Cheetahs, or anything from Manders. Manders became Dick Irwin Chev Olds, and I worked there in the late 70's.
I see one of the sales guys was named Murphy. There were two mechanics named Murphy, brothers there. I wonder if they were related. Brian Murphy was a transmission guy, and left there in the early 80's and went to Kelowna, just north of me and bought or started a transmission shop. I heard that he has died recently. He was pretty involved in Drag racing with his 37 Chevrolet.
I'll do some digging and see what I can find out. I'll be back in North Van sometime this month.

[69Z28Freak]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: StriperSS</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Funny, I was in North Vancouver last week doing some stripes for a guy, who also has 3 hemi cars. We discussed a lot of things, but I never thought to ask about Conroy Cheetahs, or anything from Manders. Manders became Dick Irwin Chev Olds, and I worked there in the late 70's.
I see one of the sales guys was named Murphy. There were two mechanics named Murphy, brothers there. I wonder if they were related. Brian Murphy was a transmission guy, and left there in the early 80's and went to Kelowna, just north of me and bought or started a transmission shop. I heard that he has died recently. He was pretty involved in Drag racing with his 37 Chevrolet.
I'll do some digging and see what I can find out. I'll be back in North Van sometime this month. </div></div>

I love this thread. Can't wait to get to the bottom of this

[892TopSportsman]

Hi, I am the NEIL MURPHY salesman in the Mander Supper Hugger add. I am not related to any of the other Murphy's working in the Mander Service Shop. I sold muscle cars new &amp; used at Manders until Jim Mander sold the dealership.
Little did I realize that it would be a great time in my life, Selling and racing cars for Mander Chev Olds.

Even raced a 1966 Corvair Convertible and beat the NHRA National record holder for the class in the first outing. Boy where they pissed, and they tore me down to prove I was cheating. Which I was not.

[camino]

Neil , do you recognize the salesman's name on the ordinal bill of sale?

[camino]

i am thrilled.......i just bought a 68 corvette that has been sitting for 38years , Mander trunk emblem and orig bill of sale, the Elcamino has a new garage companion.427,4 speed, pw,off road exhaust, 50,000 orig miles, orig paint and interior.

[syslo68]

Originally Posted by camino

i am thrilled.......i just bought a 68 corvette that has been sitting for 38years , Mander trunk emblem and orig bill of sale, the Elcamino has a new garage companion.427,4 speed, pw,off road exhaust, 50,000 orig miles, orig paint and interior.

camino - i just purchased this car and now have in the US, i am curious about the work done to the car while you owned it and if you still have any of the parts removed from the car, i would be interested in getting them back with the car if they are in fact original parts. thanks

[PeteLeathersac]

CL!!!

Definately function before beauty!.
Seeing the HP is noted at 430, I wonder if they were L88 powered?.
Also if they built any 68's I wonder if Mander knew of/ordered any of the 9737 cars?.

Little on these or the Conroy Cheetah cars seems to exist so if anyone has more info/pics please post anything you have..

To date there's one existing Conroy Cheetah that appears to be the real deal plus a few possibles..




~ Pete

[midyr]

Don't know how to post these so they open

[Xplantdad]

Here you go!