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What's
even more amazing is how often it happens. We heard about the Peter Maxx
collection. One of every year Corvette just sitting in a garage collecting
dust. My friend Bill also has so many cars that I don’t think he even knows any
more what he has. Most of them are Corvettes but he recently started buying
Shelbys, hemi Mopars, and other American classics, and even more recently
imports like classic Ferraris. He has them stashed in garages at condos that he
owns, in airplane hangars, at friends' houses and who knows where else. There are
about 10 reeeaaaallllllyyy exceptional ones like the 1963 prototype Corvette
that is basically priceless that he keeps at his house, but most of them are
scattered. I'm wondering if at this point he is more afraid of his wife or the
IRS finding out what he has. One thing about Bill though is that he drives
them. One of his businesses is a used car dealership, which I think he started
just so that he could get dealer plates. When he wants to drive one of his
classics he just slaps a dealer or transporter plate on it. One day Bill and
his sister and I each took a Corvette and went for a cruise. Bill drove the '63
prototype that day. I drove one that IIRC was a 1965. It was one of those with
the aluminum block 427CID/450HP engine. His sister drove one from the following
year with the "smaller" big block, which IIRC was a 396. Bill said
that after that one year with the aluminum engines the insurance companies just
refused to insure them because they were too fast and especially with the tires
they had back then, they were tough to keep on the road. Bill told me that
there are less than 100 of those aluminum block Corvettes known to exist
because most of them were crashed. They were just too fast compared to their ability
to hold the road. Anyway,
the only thing better than owning an American treasure is driving one. -----Original
Message----- Wow.
What an amazing story. It's finding a hidden American treasure. Ron M. 67 Malibu |
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