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[JoeC]

Are they joking about that door story? That 12 mile L88 was sitting at a Corvette junk yard with the back end up on a fork lift. No engine, trans, or rear, underside painted white, decals on the fenders. The yard bought it from owner who bought it new to build a drag car but never finished it. There was an article in Corvette news when it was found.

[MotownMadman]

WOW! You serious Joe? Junk yard?
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[Verne_Frantz]

I guess that explains why the engine went bye-bye with only 12 miles on it.
(48 passes)!

Verne.
What a freakin' shame a 12 mile car needed a complete restoration. But that's the way it was back then. Run hard and put away wet. It's a wonder any of them survived at all......
Yes, it would have been quite an honor and memorable experience to work on that car.

[JoeC]

It was never raced. The guy stopped working on it before he finshed it and it just sat in his garage for many years. I think they found most of its original parts.

[Verne_Frantz]

Something drastic must have happened to the owner?? I can't imagine junking the car just because of giving up on the race car project.
I thought I read it has a replacement block, so I figured the original was "broken". I haven't read (or heard) the full story on the car.
Verne.

[budnate]

I think I remember that car coming in to Lincoln, but Vette's didnít do anything for me early Camaros was where it was at for me,

I will have his name spelled wrong but Veurl or something close was able to pull some really cool cars out of the woodwork, he was the manager, he would curb some really cool stuff from his house also, plus they had been in the same location forever and people would call them and ask them to remove the Junker from there yard etc..., but once they had it, parts were very spendy to buy from the cars, I recall many a rare car parted out there, the inventory was mind boggling.

Bud.

[olredalert]

------JoeC is correct about the junkyard and the never been raced or even driven part.The 12 miles were on it from St.Louis.
------Theres a guy named Duke that posts pretty regularly on the NCRS board that helped the original owner take the 12 mile car apart after it was delivered to his garage on a roll-back.The original owner even gave Duke the distributor as he was going to run magneto ignition.Duke used it in his 63 fuelie for years,and then heard that Dave Burroughs was restoring the car and sent him the distributor so now its back with the car.Original engine supposedly disappeared from the race engine builders shop somewhere along the line.
------After Lincoln sold it and Friendly Bob Adams from Wisconsin ended up with it,I was very close to the car frequently and Im here to tell you that the old car has never had any spot-painting ever done to it that I could find.It has always been my understanding that Lincoln was very careful with the car as they obviously knew it only had twelve miles on it.
------Another close friend of mine in Janesville Wi. bought it from Adams and I used to see it all the time in among his huge collection.
------My friend then sold the car to a three person consortium that included Dave Burroughs,another good friend and the past and just rehired current head of Bloomington Gold.He brought the car back to original specs and did an unbelieveable job as no one in the past had been careful about alot of the parts.
------Then,this past year the car sold to Roger Judski out of Fla.He is also the owner of the other "known" ZL1 Corvette(the yellow one).
------So,there you go.History in a nutshell.A whole book could be written just about this car.
------Also have to apologize for getting away from the original thread......Bill S

[JoeC]

Bill, have you seen the Corvette News article on the car?

[TimG]

I have the July 1982 Hemmings with a full page add by the Janesville owner showing this and many, many rare cars for sale. He was selling Grand Sport #1 in the same add.
Would you possibily know the Janesville owner of my Benchmark 67 Corvette? His name is Charles Weber and he bought the car new.

[sixtiesmuscle]

Tim, can you post a scan of the ad?