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[timfitz63]

fitzy, someday when your older, i'll tell you my '63 corvette story. it'll have to be on a day when your feeling strong as it'll make you wanna cry !

Oh, no!  I'm not sure I'll want to hear it -- even when I do grow up...!

I'll try to brace myself; let it fly whenever you're ready...

[Louis]

I retired in May last yr 2013 and just do solo acts in lounges and having a heck of a time to get started cause I just want to do hi end lounges like the Hilton's .Besides that I'm really heavy in flight simulation ,which most people when you mention it don't have a clue what I'm talking about.

[stepchildusmc]

ok fitzy, here it is....
 i went to high school in Anchorage AK. i got my license in my jr year and quickly bought a 68 camaro off a used car lot. it wasnt much of a car and well, i wasn't much of a driver yet either ! so long story short, camaro didn't last long. the guy that owns/owned the speed shop on 4th avenue had a baby blue '63 'vette for sale for 6k. it's body was cracked in a bunch of places, had a 454 with an 871 blower stickin' outta the hood and 31" mickey thompson slicks tucked under its tubbed rear end.(anybody that spent any time in Anchorage in the '80's knows this car)
well anyway, i bought it and the seller had a parts doner car that went with it. a laguna blue shell with most of the suspension, engine and tranny came with it but not installed. most of the interior was gone but it was a solid body. guy said it was a '63 also but i didnt believe it even though the title listed it as so.... it just didn't have the distinctive split window !
 well, anyway... a 16 yr old with a tubbed '63 vette as his primary source of transportation in Anchorage Ak in january isn't the smartest thing ! i ended up selling it to a bush pilot at the anchorage airport and buying a dropped '78 chevy shortbed pickup. i gave him the parts car with the sale( i almost broke even at least). the story lies dormant from there until just a few years ago while watching the Barrett-jackson auction on tv. they had a '63 vette up for sale and the announcer was explaining away why this particular model didn't have the famed split window. toward the end of the production run of '63, many people were complaining that the rear window post made it impossible to see behind you so chevy offer a post-delete option. 41 '63 vettes were made without the rear window post... my "parts car " was one !!!
 when i dropped off the parts car, the buyer had me put it behind one of his 3 small hangars with his other parts cars. there were a few dozen back there. a '57 210, a coupla other 'vettes, some '50's stuff.
i often wonder if that parts car is still sitting behind that hangar.......

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[emidyl]

ok fitzy, here it is....
 i went to high school in Anchorage AK. i got my license in my jr year and quickly bought a 68 camaro off a used car lot. it wasnt much of a car and well, i wasn't much of a driver yet either ! so long story short, camaro didn't last long. the guy that owns/owned the speed shop on 4th avenue had a baby blue '63 'vette for sale for 6k. it's body was cracked in a bunch of places, had a 454 with an 871 blower stickin' outta the hood and 31" mickey thompson slicks tucked under its tubbed rear end.(anybody that spent any time in Anchorage in the '80's knows this car)
well anyway, i bought it and the seller had a parts doner car that went with it. a laguna blue shell with most of the suspension, engine and tranny came with it but not installed. most of the interior was gone but it was a solid body. guy said it was a '63 also but i didnt believe it even though the title listed it as so.... it just didn't have the distinctive split window !
 well, anyway... a 16 yr old with a tubbed '63 vette as his primary source of transportation in Anchorage Ak in january isn't the smartest thing ! i ended up selling it to a bush pilot at the anchorage airport and buying a dropped '78 chevy shortbed pickup. i gave him the parts car with the sale( i almost broke even at least). the story lies dormant from there until just a few years ago while watching the Barrett-jackson auction on tv. they had a '63 vette up for sale and the announcer was explaining away why this particular model didn't have the famed split window. toward the end of the production run of '63, many people were complaining that the rear window post made it impossible to see behind you so chevy offer a post-delete option. 41 '63 vettes were made without the rear window post... my "parts car " was one !!!
 when i dropped off the parts car, the buyer had me put it behind one of his 3 small hangars with his other parts cars. there were a few dozen back there. a '57 210, a coupla other 'vettes, some '50's stuff.
i often wonder if that parts car is still sitting behind that hangar.......

 

[timfitz63]

ok fitzy, here it is....
 i went to high school in Anchorage AK. i got my license in my jr year and quickly bought a 68 camaro off a used car lot. it wasnt much of a car and well, i wasn't much of a driver yet either ! so long story short, camaro didn't last long. the guy that owns/owned the speed shop on 4th avenue had a baby blue '63 'vette for sale for 6k. it's body was cracked in a bunch of places, had a 454 with an 871 blower stickin' outta the hood and 31" mickey thompson slicks tucked under its tubbed rear end.(anybody that spent any time in Anchorage in the '80's knows this car)
well anyway, i bought it and the seller had a parts doner car that went with it. a laguna blue shell with most of the suspension, engine and tranny came with it but not installed. most of the interior was gone but it was a solid body. guy said it was a '63 also but i didnt believe it even though the title listed it as so.... it just didn't have the distinctive split window !
 well, anyway... a 16 yr old with a tubbed '63 vette as his primary source of transportation in Anchorage Ak in january isn't the smartest thing ! i ended up selling it to a bush pilot at the anchorage airport and buying a dropped '78 chevy shortbed pickup. i gave him the parts car with the sale( i almost broke even at least). the story lies dormant from there until just a few years ago while watching the Barrett-jackson auction on tv. they had a '63 vette up for sale and the announcer was explaining away why this particular model didn't have the famed split window. toward the end of the production run of '63, many people were complaining that the rear window post made it impossible to see behind you so chevy offer a post-delete option. 41 '63 vettes were made without the rear window post... my "parts car " was one !!!
 when i dropped off the parts car, the buyer had me put it behind one of his 3 small hangars with his other parts cars. there were a few dozen back there. a '57 210, a coupla other 'vettes, some '50's stuff.
i often wonder if that parts car is still sitting behind that hangar.......

Oh, no, no, no, no, noooooo!   You need to take a trip to Alaska...!

I knew that people (and true to Zora Duntov's predictions) were complaining about rearward visibility on the SWC -- and that some had even taken to cutting the split post out of their '63 coupes.  But I didn't know there were a cache of factory-produced '63 coupes with the rear split post deleted...!  What are the odds...?!

*SIGH*  We've all to a story about the car that got away, but mine isn't nearly as gut-wrenching as yours...!

[seanD]

Surfing, skiing, tennis, travel (especially to Utah for great snow and lovely new wives).

[jjrpilot-admin]

I love to golf, play the guitar....and there's a forum that I run on the side.   

[dcarey]

Lately I've been dabbling in this:





And these:

[Jersey tuning]

Lately I've been dabbling in this:





And these:

Considering the instrument and the scrimshaw motif, could we say you're involved with bow and stern?

[dcarey]

GROAN!