Hey Herb, I know what you mean. I grew up in Michigan and the road I lived on was the direct route to Hell MI. You ever here of the engineers saying they took the vettes to Hell and back. I used to see all kinds of car go by. I remember one night I saw a Lumina mini van go by at night and I thought how weird it looked having the tail lights way up there at the top.
Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: Herbert Lumpp To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 11:34 AM Subject: Re: [Chevelle-List] Check out Cheetah any one ever heard of this?? If the Nickey Chevrolet in Chicago is the one you're referring to, I grew up about two blocks away from them! There I was, a couple of blocks away from all that history being made and I was out riding bicycles with my friends. They aren't kidding when they say hindsight is 20/20! cYa- Herb Lumpp 1966 El Camino ACES 3509, MCC 528 http://users.adelphia.net/~hlump/ ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 10:34 PM Subject: Re: [Chevelle-List] Check out Cheetah any one ever heard of this?? The Cheetah was built by Bill Thomas to compete with the AC Cobras. It was light and very fast but didn't handle that well. Bill Thomas had a race car fabrication shop in CA. and did a lot of secret projects for Chevy. He was building a wild 63 Nova for Chevy with a fiberglass fastback body but Chevy canceled the program with another one of their racing bans in 1963 that axed the Corvette lightweight Grand Sport and 427 Mystery Motor. There were three of the fastback Novas built. Bill Thomas joined up with Dick Harrell and Nickey Chevrolet and built some of the first 1967 427 Camaros and Chevelles. ----------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe please visit www.chevelles.net/list.html To start a new topic, send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
