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around the world Today's Show is a very unique one this show talks about the very first Corvette ever built in 1953
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it's a car that we thought was destroyed but it has been I'm going to say rediscovered by this guest on Corvette
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today his name is Corey Peterson Corey welcome to Corvette today thank you
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Steve it's my pleasure I'm glad you're here buddy first of all Corey you've been researching Corvettes for a long
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time tell me more about your Corvette background well I've been interested in Corvett pretty much all of my driving
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life when I was a kid I had a 55 Chevrolet and I got a 396 Engine Back
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in' 66 the 427 had just been barely debuted but I was delighted to have this
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great big engine and I was gonna put it in a 55 Chevrolet well I got thinking
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why would I want to put it in that big and heavy of a car I looked around and I found a 57 Corvette for
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275 bucks my dream car and I put that 396 together and made the baddest hot
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rod a kid could ever have wow that's pretty cool now how did you come across this 1953 Corvette VIN number one
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weren't you originally doing some research on early model Corvettes at the time indeed i' like to break up the
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early Corvettes into two facets we have the experimental cars and we have the
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production cars so in essence we have three experimental cars that were built
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from the five 19,000 series chassis 19,000 was the
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numerical grouping for the Corvette project before the Corvette name even came about it was called the opal
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project if you'll think back Morris Oly was contracted to build five chassis
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these were the New 102 in wheel-based chassis I believe the Harley Earl
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concept they built five chassis they were numbered 852 853 854 855 and
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856 only three of those chassis actually got built into Corvettes and there are
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experimental cars or our prototypes then we enter into the other next production
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cars which are pretty much confined to car number one through nine now in the
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pre-production cars 852 was built into the Motorama show car debuted at the
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Waldorf Ator Hotel MH that car was a show piece that is the car that
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ultimately ended up getting involved in the famous body burn tip 852 was a
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secondary show car because they started the Motorama they didn't have enough
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vehicle coverage to get the Corvette name out so they built a second show car
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to follow the Motorama show that started at dinner Key in Miami Florida and ended up in Kansas City mid June of
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1953 856 is the third pre-production or
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experimental car and 856 is the test mule car that we've all seen pictures
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Proving Ground demonstrations that's the car that had the holes drilled low in
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the front fenders to exhaust engine heat no Chrome on very very basic a rather
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utilitarian looking car with the dog dish hub caps and the black wheels and tires we've all seen pictures of that
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right then we get into the production car so we've got the three prototyp ppes
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or experimental however you want to put it then we get into the nine production
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cars I can't find anything on number 10 that's why I limited to number nine
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number one being assigned to engineering and issued 3950 engineering number
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number two was 3951 also a Chevrolet engineering number
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car number three also went to engineering but it was a side ES1
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27-2 H that's a General Motors engineering number and it's separate
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from the Chevrolet engineering cars car number four was a new car that was sent
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out to J Spencer weed J Spencer weed was a friend of Henry DuPont's daughter who
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did a lot of equestrian competitions back then and they showed horses and
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things of this nature but Jay Spencer weed a retailer he had car number four
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car number five also went to the DuPont estate in Wilmington and that was du
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Crawford Greenwall Crawford Greenwall was the CFO for the DuPont Corporation
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he was Henry DuPont's right hand car number six went to Henry Dupont himself
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3953 was assigned to car number seven car number eight was es128 D2 and car
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number nine was ES1 1229-c now that gives just a basic background of the
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placement and the whereabouts of the first nine produ cars and the only three
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completely built prototypes or experimentals yeah have I confused everybody
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yet no problem buddy no I've got it all down now traditionally GM destroys these
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early model cars what do you think happened to this one that it escaped the crusher well I hear through throughout
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history people say that General Motors destroyed these early cars the only
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reference to destruction is a workorder or a General Motors document that calls
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for ex52 to go to The Proving Grounds for a burn test the body was separated from
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the chassis and the chassis went back to styling the top and interior and
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interior Goods the chassis was stretched and was assigned eight 57 for The Nomad
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project the Corvette Nomad was built on the first experimental chassis after it
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got stretched and went to styling number two that car when it was terminated from
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its use at the Motorama show they decided rather than having this
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unsightly 856 test car out at The Proving Ground without any chrome trim on it a very
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crude coars looking car they chose in December of 53 to pull the body off of
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853 and put it on to 856 now it said dispose of or scrap the
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takeoff body of 856 the coar crude body it said to scrap the frame or chassis
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out of EX 53 or 853 852 show car 853 show car
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respectively got a experimental numbers ex52 and ex 53 I don't see anywhere
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where 856 ever got an ex 56 VIN number but if
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I find a document I'll change my mind there you go now this Corvette was designated number 3950 and it was driven
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by a few GM Executives and then some of the engineers this was used to be picked apart so they could look for
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improvements to improve the Corvette while they were already rolling off the line correct correct Steve that's
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exactly what happened what they did is the car went directly from the production facility in Flint to the
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Milford Proving Grounds Harry bar took the car and drove it a bit and did a
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personal comparison of the car two days later I don't have the documents in front of me but was within the first
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week after the car was produced and kind of comparing car number one with car number 856 the experimental test mule
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car got it now you went to the GM Heritage Center and you found 22 work orders or changes that were made to
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number 3950 which is VIN number one didn't you let me correct that just a
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little bit I managed to get hundreds of documents over the past 15 or 20 years
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they were sourced from everywhere on the planet from people who have done Corvettes and collected information and
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yes some of it was sourced from the Heritage Center through a good friend of mine these documents have just been
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really really helpful but let's step back just a bit John Amber he was one of
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the founding fathers of the National Corvette restorer Society let me include
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John Ambert was part owner of 53 Corvette number three which was
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es127 got it John was inspired to do a lot of research on that car he was able
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to unearth a tremendous number of documents from a General Motors attorney
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who was instructed by Jim Perkins Jim Perkins brought the attorney into his
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office and he said with all the pressure that I'm getting from the Corvette Community draft a letter that gets you
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into any property any building any archive any file cabinet any holding of
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General Motors and see what you can find on Corvette history documents to kind of
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get the Corvette Community off my back do you draft the letter I'll sign it and you wear blue jeans and t-shirts to work
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so this attorney he did in fact get this letter he told me that no one has ever
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been given that latitude of search within General Motors Corporation don't
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hold me to it but I think it was in the late 80s when he did that now fast
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forward John Amber Leary and Howard kers find car number three for sale when Ed
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theod put it up for sale in mode California ' 87 they bought this car the
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Monteray auction what really inspired to do an in-depth research program he
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reached out to this retired attorney and they managed to get a lot of information
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put together I got a lot of information from John amart largely published in the
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story that got published in the Corvette Resto magazine in the summer of 93 it's
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called the earliest Corvette there is a tech and documents that spell out the
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history of exactly what I'm telling everyone right now I'm almost shocked by
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the people that come up with disputing ideas and it's spelled out in this
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article and I have researched it and I haven't been able to find anything that's not correct in that story that
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was published 30 Years Ago by John Amor wow well I tell you what let's take our first break when we come back we're
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is Cory Peterson Cory owns VIN number one Corvette from 1953 in this second segment we're going
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to talk more about this car Cory originally you found this car in a shop in Tulsa Oklahoma and it was owned by
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somebody on the west coast now this Corvette was originally thought to be then number two but it actually turned
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out with these 22 different changes that were suggested to be made on the Corvette it actually was VIN number one
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wasn't it that's what my research ultimately proved out the car was the
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Lloyd Miller shop in to Oklahoma the previous owner of the car was actually
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on the East Coast he knew that Lloyd Mill had done a complete restoration on
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car number three Lloyd was the one that restored car number three for Les spary
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Howard kers and John amort and he knew the car intimately so this fellow who
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got the car I own now and he in his heart believed that it was car number
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two when he found it and it was based on good sound research on his part well the
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car gets to Lloyd's Place Lloyd gets started on it and the carets
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disassembled the paint and stripped down to Bare F like the owner's daughter took
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ill it shifted gears for him his daughter ultimately passed away I'm
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sorry to say but he kind of Shel the car the car got pushed off to the side in
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Lloyd Miller's place and basically forgotten about Lloyd had put the word
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out to those of us who are interested and curious about the early early cars and that the owner thinks it's car
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number two I'm not convinced that it is he said I would love all of you guys who
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have researched some of this stuff would you get a chance come and look at the car and offer your opinion Lauren lber
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who since passed away a very good friend of mine he and I used to do a lot of research work together and Lauren went
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to Tulsa John went to Tulsa we all had a chance to see the car and offer our
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opinion of what we thought we saw but I picked up on something that neither John nor Lauren picked up on the floors under
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the seats had been lowered it looked like they been cut out and maybe an
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access door was the initial impression that everybody was getting but I had remembered looking through a document
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about 3950 and it called for other items have
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the seat bolster lowered and in a quarter and free a point 3/4 of an inch
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and I'm thinking the floor looks to be lowered right at of an inch I out to a
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design staff engineer for General Motors friend of mine and I said in styling what is the a point for seat placement
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he says it's the platform that the seat sets on the Flor we did seat lowering
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that's what really got me convinced that 350 was car number one yeah also the
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fuel door was redesigned talk about that for just a quick second okay part that
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confused me was when I was looking at the fuel door configuration it was the type you would see on late 53 and 54 run
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where the gas door lid lifts up and over the top of the fender the early design
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53 folded down into the cavity of the gas filler box and it obstructed access
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to the killer cap this had the later design and I thought that should not be
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on car number one well as I got looking back through documents I found the
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document that says install new designed gas filler box and hinge cover assembly
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on car 3950 that was just a confirmation Smoking Gun for me quite frankly yeah
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and the amazing thing is this car sat in Lloyd Miller shop in Tulsa Oklahoma for almost 20 some odd years didn't it that
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is correct when the previous owner's daughter took his his interest shifted quite honestly Lloyd and the previous
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owner lost contact for that 20-year period wow the other funny story that I
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think is really amazing is talk about how you found the VIN plate for this car I went to Oklahoma gathered everything
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up the car was still apart loaded that up in the car I started digging through
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what I got what I don't have what I need to get there was no engine or transmission I emptying out this one
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cardboard box and I could hear nothing Bol little things ring around in there I dumped it upside down on the floor and
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then I pulled the flaps up and underneath one of the flaps was the VIN number I think I was shaking like a leaf
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you know it was just an amazing find that's really amazing and you bought the car from the original East Coast owner
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and then got it from Lloyd Miller's place and Tulsa back to your home in Salt Lake City correct yes in essence I
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had to buy it from each of them I didn't know how to sneak up on the previous
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owner I certainly didn't want to play down the importance of the car I first
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approached him I said you have this it's obviously a unique early early car the
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car really should be moved forward should be put together if you're lacking
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anything for putting it together i' like to netw with you and help you get everything you need to get the car put
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back together he didn't Express much and I said well the other side of that would
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be if you're ready to pass the torch I would be the keeper of the car if you
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could come to terms with it I think I would sell and So based on that I had to approach the body shop owner restoration
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shop owner for the storage and paid balance on the car and I certainly had to pay the previous owner so I bought it
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from both that's interesting well Cory let's take our final break when we come back we're going to talk about your
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docomo Steve Garrett with me is Cory Peterson Cory owns the 1953 VIN number
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one Corvette in this third and final segment we're going to talk about Cory's plans for the car Cory you're going to
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do a full restoration on this car how's that going to go well what I want to do
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there's a lot of people that are curious about the origin of the car I like for
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people to see it in its raw form when I got the car from Lloyd Miller's shop in
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Tulsa the car was stripped down to Bare fiberglass I found found an appropriate
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engine I had the original information on what the engine should say I went ahead
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and did inessence a restoration engine for the car and a transmission that was
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out of a 54 Corvette that's functional it's not dated right but it serves the
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purpose of getting the car out and about for people to see those who are doubters
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and naysayers I want them to physically look it over and see it before anything
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gets sugarcoated I suspect that I'll move forward with the restoration but there's no real
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hurry it's never too late to pay the car there you go so what does this car need
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in order to get it back to its original form well that's another thing that's a bit of a question I am choosing to leave
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every 3950 identifiable modification intact on
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the car I think it would be a gross mistake to undo those changes to get it
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back as it would have been as it rolled off the assembly line back in June 30th
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1953 I think it would destroy some of the heritage of the car so I'm going to leave those few changes that are subtle
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from appearances and some of these changes ultimately got entered into the assembly line and they made these
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changes on all the subsequent builds of the cars gotcha I know you have no time frame or timeline for the restoration of
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this car what are your plans for the car after you've done the restoration I don't know look for something
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better I've had a lot of people say what do you do after this yeah you know I
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love all Corvettes I just acquired a 63 split window and it's the epitome of
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what we would want for a luxury Cruiser I've launched a restoration my friend Rex Marshall is restoring the car for me
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it's a black red interior 63 coupe with power steering power windows power glide
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transmission and air conditioning I've got the window sticker I've got the shipping documents I've got every piece
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of paper with it the owner's manual the air conditioning operation manual it's just a stunning project that's awesome
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the 63 split window is what got me into Corvettes when I was a little boy so I'm anxious to see that restoration now is
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John angor gonna work with you on this 53 VIN number one car John angor is part
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owner of the car with me we have worked together every aspect of this car every
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minute of it has been shared with John or John has shared with me we've worked on it collectively that's wonderful well
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Corey thank you so much for being on Corvette today I appreciate your time all the best of luck with this VIN
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