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 dont 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.
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Wow. What an
amazing story. It's finding a hidden American
treasure.
Ron
M.
67
Malibu
