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CORVETTE TODAY #146-Kevin Mackay Talks About The #1 Cunningham Corvette & Bringing It Back To Life!
May 8, 2025
In 1960, Briggs Cunningham took 3 Corvettes to France to race at Le Mans.
After that race, the cars were brought back to the United States, put back to original and sold to consumers.
The #3 car was recovered about put back to the way it was when it raced in 1960 at Le Mans and is owned by a private owner.
The #2 car is owned by Bruce Meyers of the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.
But what happened to the #1 car? After a long legal battle, Kevin Mackay from Corvette Repair in Long Island, New York, has been putting this historic Corvette back to it's original 1960 livery for the past year (after it was purchased by Briggs Cunningham's family at auction).
Kevin comes back on CORVETTE TODAY to tell the story of the #1 Cunningham Corvette and to tell you when and where you can see this car...will it's two siblings!
If you love the history of Corvette and it's racing past, DO NOT MISS this episode of CORVETTE TODAY!
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Corvette from around the world in 1960
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Briggs Cunningham took three C1
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Corvettes to France to race in the 24
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Hours of Le Mans these three Corvettes
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are legendary the number three
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Cunningham Corvette was found and
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restored and is now owned by a private
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individual the number two Cunningham
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Corvette is owned by Bruce Meyer from
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the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los
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Angeles but the number one car was
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recently found and restored by the man
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on today's show Kevin McKay owner of
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Corvette repair in Long Island is the
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famous Corvette Hunter Kevin makes his
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third appearance on Corvette today to
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talk about the number one Cunningham
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Corvette and what's going on with it
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plus he's got some huge news to tell us
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here about these three famous Corvettes
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Kevin welcome back to Corvette today
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well thank you very much use it nice to
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be back it's great to have you buddy I'm
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so excited about the show and all the
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information first of all let's give our
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listeners and viewers a brief history of
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Briggs Cunningham and the three
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Corvettes that were raced at Le Mans 9
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160. well Bruce Cunningham came from a
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very successful family and he always had
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a passion for racing but after his
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mother's passing that's when he just
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went berserk like I said in the last
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interview that we had together so he
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always dreamed of racing at Lamar which
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that didn't come true but he always
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wanted to win it overall he tried six
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attempts did quite well in some of the
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years well approx 1950 to 1955 and then
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he kind of gave it up a little bit he
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got into sailboat racing and he did very
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well there wearing winning the American
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cup with a book called Columbia he's on
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the cover of Time Magazine back I think
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like 1954. he got pretty friendly with
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the GM people by Cole and Zara dantoff
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and Zora kind of pushed them because
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look you got to bring an American
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Corvette over to Le Mans you got to do
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this with American drivers you could do
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it you could do it you have acknowledge
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you had the experience you had the funds
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that's cool now let's talk about what
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happened to those three Corvettes during
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the race and what was the outcome of
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those three Corvettes well they start
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off very very well they were right on
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the front head of the line and I did a
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Lavon start originally brakes was
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supposed to drive with Zorro himself and
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Ed Cole said to Briggs listen to me I'll
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let him go over on what condition you
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give me a word that he's not going to be
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going behind the wheel in that car
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because I really need him here he's a
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big part of this team right and he goes
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okay but I don't want him behind the
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wheel of the car give me your word and
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Brady said I'll give you my word sir I
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will not let him drive the car wow so a
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day or two before the race Briggs gave
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the sad news and wouldn't let him drive
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he got this young guy 24 year old guy
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named Bill Kimberly he was a pretty
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well-known driver at his time drove the
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car and he replaced the dental the Le
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Mans thought he ran to the car and got
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in took off behind him it was Dick
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Thompson and his number two car and the
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number three car was started by John
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Fitch now let's talk about where they
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finished in the race all three of those
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cars well the old one actually really
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finished the race was the number three
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car the number one car you know every 25
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bucks he normally changed drivers but
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they see the weather's turning bad and
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brakes came in they switched drivers and
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Earl Kimberly went out there and hit a
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wall of rain and Kyle flipped over and
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over and caught on fire and he was out
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of the race he was the first LeMans got
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out of the race at the like 32 laps and
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then number two car also got it into an
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accident hitting the right front
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headlight area in the rear quarter panel
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almost in the same area that bill
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Kimberly crashed he was able to trickle
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back to the pits and they fixed what
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they could and they tied up the broken
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pieces and he went back on the truck and
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then maybe I think like about 208 laps
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or so the engine went and of course
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everybody knows that the number three
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car had heating problems somebody left
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the radio cap off the car and by the
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rules you could not put any kind of
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fluid in a car for at least 25 laps so
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they came up with a brainstorm they took
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ice cubes out of a bucket they placed
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them around the intake manifold around
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the fuel injection to try to keep it
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cool and that worked and the crowd was
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behind them you figure like 300 000
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people over there wow so who finished
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the race was a guy named Bob Grossman
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and lucky enough both individuals were
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at my shop well we did find the number
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three car back in early 2000 I think it
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was like 2001 when we actually got the
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car in the shop and we finished in 2002
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for Monterey for the 75th anniversary
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and that call of course was found in St
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Louis and the number two car was found
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in a junkyard by a guy named Michael
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Pillsbury back in the early 80s for like
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300 wow and the one car was registered
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entitled in Tampa for I could never find
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the guy just by luck back in 2012 I was
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able to stumble across it and the car
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was just uh ugly duckling it was heavily
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heavily modified and customized and so
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on but see a lot of people thought the
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car was destroyed because it clicked the
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end over in and it burst into flames but
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when we were at a racetrack there's
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always an emergency crew there there's
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always a fire truck there remember
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there's a wall of rain that bill
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Kimberly hit when he lost control of the
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car but the secret was too he didn't
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have the right tires in the car they
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went there with rain tires but they
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wanted to save the rain tires but maybe
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later on they didn't realize the rain
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would come that quickly because when I
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spoke to John Fisher we spent two weeks
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together at Le Mans in 2010 we went over
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there for the 50th anniversary of John
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you know originally in 1960. he said
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everybody continue rating the rest of
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the race I had a very good chance of
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winning the whole race I was beating the
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prototypes with those rain tires those
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rain tires just grabbed the track yeah
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and at one time he was as high as seven
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overall so it was pretty cool but then
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of course once the rain stopped and the
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other person of course got ahead of it
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again but it was a slight chance which
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is pretty cool that is cool and the
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number three car was the only car to
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finish and it won its class right that's
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correct the car didn't get a scratch on
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it we determined that when the car was
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at our shop at repair and Valley Stream
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Long Island New York now going to our
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38th year in business we went by body
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damage and we knew that those three cars
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when it finished the race they didn't
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have a scratch on it we knew that the
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number two car got hit and the pesticide
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fun Fender and the pesticide rear
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quarter panel and we knew that the one
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car caught on fire and the whole front
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end was damaged and the door skin was
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peeled off so we shook the 160 Corvette
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which was the number 2538 we realized it
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actually was the class winner that's
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amazing Kevin after the race in 1960
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what happened to these three Cunningham
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cars well they came back to the States
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Bruce was on to a new Venture and he
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gave the three cars to a guy named
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William Frick or Bill Frick they called
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him he was based down in Florida and he
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saw the cars to private people the one
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car I went to a customizer and he was
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also a sec racer guy named Boswell he
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customized the car he put a 1956 1957
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front clip on the car and he put white
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wall tires and these special crazy
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looking hubcaps and a scoop on the hood
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and had an aftermarket hardtop on the
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car had like a little fit in the back
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like a little vent in the back and she
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really modified back into the car but we
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have a picture of it being customized
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and you can still see it on the driver's
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side had the number one on the door wow
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but we just confirmed now that that's
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the car but also what Cunningham was
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instructed to do after Lamar they took
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out the special race motors because
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Chevrolet wanted a back fantastic to see
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how they held up so they put the stock
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Motors back in the car before they sold
9:07
the cars but the cars are still painted
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white had the racing stripes on it had
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the halibrant wheels on it had the
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racing tires on it it was still fairly
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complete but it was wrecked the thing is
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it was never destroyed it was wrecked
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yeah and you can fix anything if it's
9:20
wrecked sure the major parts of the car
9:23
were there like the original frame was
9:25
there been number 35. the original
9:27
steering column with the original
9:28
vintage was still there 35.35 saw the
9:31
original flooring original firewall had
9:33
both original doors one door had the
9:35
door skin peeled off had the original
9:36
trunk lid which they modified wow but
9:38
the nose was completely damaged because
9:40
that's why they put a 5657 nose in the
9:43
car which is a single headlight though
9:44
it's versus a 58-62 it would have a
9:47
double headlight on each side right it
9:49
was pretty interesting how when I first
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saw the car back in 2012 when I flew
9:53
down to see Petersburg in a warehouse
9:55
look at the car and I said my God where
9:57
the hell they do this damn thing but
9:58
there were so many things in that car I
10:01
knew instantly it was the one car
10:02
because that's the only one that has
10:03
been found at the time was that wiper
10:05
hole we talked about in the past it was
10:07
still there they just spliced the 56
10:09
with your nose onto the original 60
10:12
wiper Cal area there's the wiper hole
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right the dead center I said son of a
10:15
gun and only Cunningham did that and
10:17
that's how you knew that was the number
10:18
one car instantly and probably less than
10:20
10 seconds that's amazing It ultimately
10:22
with the three car and I spent a lot of
10:24
time looking at the two car when Mike
10:25
Pillsbury had it and when Bruce Myers
10:27
eventually ended up with it I thought
10:29
that California multiple times to look
10:31
at the car so it was interesting I was
10:32
very fortunate where we took a lot of
10:34
photographs through a lot of video made
10:36
a lot of notes and preventing in a
10:37
binder so that really helped me quite a
10:40
bit with this newest restoration number
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one car that's cool Kevin let's take our
10:44
first break when we come back we're
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going to talk about what it took to
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bring that number one Briggs Cunningham
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with me is the world famous Corvette
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the Briggs Cunningham Corvettes from
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1960 at Le Mans in the second segment
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we're going to talk about what it took
14:56
to bring back to life Corvette number
14:58
one Kevin you've been working on this
15:00
car for about a year now let's talk
15:01
about what it took to bring it back to
15:03
life and what it looked like back in
15:05
1960 and delivery back from there well
15:08
the car was basically a stock production
15:09
car with some special options on it had
15:12
all the heavy duty options it had the
15:14
optional tank which only made 10 of
15:16
those and they had the heavy duty brake
15:17
and heavy duty suspension and the 283
15:20
290 horse fuel injection motor they took
15:22
the tank and they extended it for
15:24
endurance racing and then they reap and
15:26
extended down to almost probably a 40
15:27
gallon tank believe it or not because
15:29
the afraid they would make the 25 lap
15:31
minimum and they did that on practice
15:32
day back in April 9 1960. well we got
15:35
the car the tank was still in the car
15:36
which was amazing to me and some of the
15:38
really important parts are almost
15:40
Irreplaceable were there it was a real
15:42
challenge I actually were in the car
15:44
Steve for 18 months and we probably have
15:47
maybe less than a month worth of
15:48
tweaking on the car right it starts it
15:51
drives the paint came out spectacular
15:53
I'm very proud of my team for doing it
15:55
you know it's all about your team how
15:56
good your team is yeah I've just been
15:58
very fortunate to have the right people
16:00
that are as passion as I am and we just
16:02
work together like a family which is
16:03
really great that's awesome did you have
16:05
to fabricate a lot of stuff to get the
16:07
car back to what it was like in 1960. a
16:10
lot of the parts I made duplicates of 21
16:12
years ago when we did the three cogs I
16:15
figured you know there's always a slight
16:16
chance the car still may be out there
16:18
here so I did make a lot of templates
16:20
but when I make those crazy looking
16:21
headlight covers which on old cars are
16:23
all red white blue right and the
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16:27
oil cooler and pressure lines and an ad
16:29
jam and Hood louvers and enemy goes on
16:31
and on and on and toggle switches and so
16:34
on engages a custom-made Jones tack so
16:36
it took a tremendous amount of research
16:38
and patience and Fabricators we had a
16:41
wrap around areas where the bumpers
16:43
would only go were removed at the front
16:45
and they had these openings there so
16:46
that would be covered up with a special
16:48
aluminum that was one of the most
16:49
difficult things to have made I must
16:51
have went to at least four or five
16:53
people that said they can do it they
16:54
just couldn't do it really it was really
16:56
frustrating that took me eight months to
16:58
get the right guy to do it and once I
16:59
got the right guy to do it had the right
17:01
equipment it wasn't that bad for him it
17:03
looked simple but it wasn't simple
17:04
wrapping around in one piece was very
17:06
difficult than having it polished and
17:07
masked off and primed and painted fit
17:10
nicely and drilled all the holes got to
17:11
be screwed in carefully without chipping
17:13
anything or scratching anything so you
17:14
could have a lot of patience which we do
17:16
you say my first rodeo you learn from of
17:18
your mistakes yeah Kevin talk about what
17:21
these cars all three of them possessed
17:23
that got them ready to race and made
17:25
them so unique well Briggs wanted to win
17:28
since money wasn't the object he got the
17:31
best of the best he got the best
17:32
Craftsman the best Fabricators the best
17:34
mechanics he bought the very best people
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because he wanted to win Le Mans yeah
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there's not a better race on the planet
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than winning the overall Le Mans for
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example like the movie four versus
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Ferrari we talked about earlier those
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overall winners the gt40s those cars are
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50 million 70 million 80 million a piece
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because they won Le Mans so just knowing
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that the Cunningham car won his class
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Alamar is just such an amazing feat
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especially first time out of the box
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it's just incredible these were heavy
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big cars you know these weren't
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prototype cars these were production
18:04
cars and that record held for over 40
18:06
plus years and the car was driving down
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the street in St Louis the guy didn't
18:09
know what he had it was just a wonderful
18:11
story you know I'm just so fortunate
18:13
that all three cars have survived I
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would never think in a million years
18:16
these cars would survive yeah it's
18:17
amazing these cars were just Beat to
18:20
Death what was converted back to A
18:22
Streetcar they got to know what he had
18:23
now it's the class winner the other car
18:24
was severely customized and just sat in
18:26
the warehouse since 1976 and before that
18:28
it was hot rodded locally the car was in
18:31
Florida pretty much the entire life
18:32
after Le Mans the other car was counting
18:34
a junkyard that's crazy so the number
18:37
one car is now done talk about how many
18:39
hours it took to restore and what
18:41
happens next with that Corvette I would
18:43
say we have over five thousand man I was
18:46
in our car that's not even including the
18:47
research itself and hunting down the
18:49
parts and finding the right people that
18:51
could make things you know a lot of
18:53
stuff we did in-house but just getting
18:54
the right people that know what they
18:56
were doing did it right took pride what
18:58
they did meant everything to us I got
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the car done a certain way and three-car
19:02
proud of that car this car is equally as
19:05
nice the car sold out at auction at RM
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Sotheby's back in May of 2021 sold for I
19:11
believe was 785 000 which is a lot of
19:13
money for a car like that everybody's
19:15
got a lot of history could have went for
19:17
more I've been offered more for that car
19:18
when I had it in my possession but they
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went to the Cunningham family that's
19:22
unheard of that's really cool that it
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went back to its original owner's family
19:26
that's really great one of the daughters
19:28
she's in her 80s is the baby daughter of
19:30
Grace Cunningham wow I could be any more
19:32
pleased I could pick anyone else in the
19:34
world to have that car that the family
19:36
themselves Grace was just an icon and he
19:38
was very well respected very well
19:40
mannered loved people loved racing of
19:43
course love racing anything anything
19:44
with wheels or a sale anything would go
19:46
fast he was there yeah absolutely right
19:48
well buddy let's take our final break
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and when we come back in segment number
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three we're going to talk about what is
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going to happen with these cars and
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you've got a big announcement for us
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Hunter Kevin McKay from Corvette repairs
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in Long Island New York we're talking
22:42
about the three Briggs Cunningham
22:44
Corvettes from 1960. in this final
22:46
segment Kevin you've got a huge
22:49
announcement talking about all three of
22:51
these cars tell us what's going on with
22:53
these three Corvettes see this has been
22:55
a dream of mine since 1993. that's 30
22:59
years ago finally all three cars have
23:02
been located two have been restored
23:04
years ago one has not been restored
23:06
we're pretty much done with the car are
23:08
we have a couple you know like I said
23:09
less than a month's worth of work on it
23:10
and we're going to debut the car at
23:12
Amelia Island in 2023. we're so excited
23:16
having these three cars together one two
23:18
and three 63 years in the making they're
23:21
going to be unveiled in the Ritz Club in
23:23
the hotel they're going to be parked in
23:25
a beautiful room and the movie The Quest
23:27
will be shown do you got to get an
23:29
advanced ticket I would probably get it
23:30
online as soon as you hear this
23:31
announcement because it's going to fill
23:33
up very quickly limited seats Michael
23:35
Brown's coming in to MC and another
23:37
German name Tom Cotter you see him quite
23:39
a bit on TV all the time he's the
23:41
bonfire Hunter as well he finds a lot of
23:43
stuff both great guys they both have a
23:45
lot of knowledge with Bruce Cunningham
23:46
and the Le Mans effort but having those
23:48
cars together in the race form back in
23:51
1960 is truly going to be breathtaking
23:53
and what is the date of that debut March
23:56
3rd at 7 pm in the evening time they
23:59
show the movie for about an hour and a
24:00
half and it'll probably be questioned
24:01
and answers maybe before and after I
24:03
wish it was tomorrow I'm so excited a
24:05
lot of fun and anybody can come see
24:07
these cars isn't that correct absolutely
24:09
they're going to be shown on Sunday at
24:11
The Concourse event we're doing a Le
24:13
Mans reunion I believe we have either 10
24:15
11 cars are going to be displayed with
24:17
great race history obviously the three
24:19
Cunningham cars will be there we have
24:21
the only 62 LeMans car will be there and
24:23
we have the only C2 Le Mans car that
24:25
will be there and we have a few c3s a
24:27
few C4s c5s and so on I know Mr Lance
24:30
Miller is bringing a c5r and I know
24:32
another couple the Customs are bringing
24:34
a Callaway LeMans car and the 67 Le
24:36
caught the only C2 that went to Lamar
24:37
will be there as well the rebel LeMans
24:39
car will be there we got some other
24:41
surprises on Sunday but it's just an
24:43
amazing event coyote does an outstanding
24:45
job promoting it it's just a beautiful
24:47
you've never been there I would highly
24:48
recommend it I wouldn't miss it I call
24:50
it the Pebble Beach of Florida it's just
24:52
that's spectacular it is they have a
24:54
Cars and Coffee there on Saturday
24:55
there's some classes there also coming
24:57
up besides the viewing the quests in the
24:59
cars there's some other classes I think
25:00
Jeff Gordon is the star of the show
25:02
probably Henry's Motorsports will be
25:03
down there as well to support him so
25:05
it's just going to be a fun fun weekend
25:06
and just keep out fingers goes for the
25:08
weather the course and coffee event on
25:10
Saturday I think it's like five six
25:12
hundred cars just an amazing event
25:13
that'll be fun we're really excited
25:16
about it I'm glad you're coming down yes
25:18
I will be there was a difficult to
25:20
coordinate getting all these three cars
25:22
back together again after 63 years well
25:25
once they were found like I said the
25:27
number two car was found first that car
25:29
was just completed I believe 1987.
25:31
that's when I first saw the car at
25:33
Monterey I was just blown away not
25:35
knowing there was still a couple more
25:36
out there and then when we got the three
25:38
car back in 2001 actually we found the
25:40
call before that but it took us seven
25:41
years to get the car from the jumping
25:43
because I just didn't want to sell it
25:44
didn't know what he had I was going to
25:45
tell it was a Cunningham Le Mans car but
25:47
we finally got that car and then the one
25:49
car just kind of fell in a lap my vision
25:50
for 30 years wow it would be nice if
25:52
those cars did survive and if they're
25:54
out there until they've been put back to
25:56
its original formal race delivery and
25:58
then show it to the public because
25:59
that's what it's all about right tell
26:01
them the story telling the history
26:02
getting people together I just wish that
26:04
some of the drivers were still around
26:05
today when Mike found the number two new
26:08
car he was fortunate that Cunningham had
26:09
a museum that in California and he
26:11
visited with priest Cunningham and Mike
26:13
went there with a bunch of photographs
26:14
where he came out of the junk and
26:15
halibrate wheels on at the wall Barn at
26:17
the tank in it and Briggs says what's
26:19
the VIN number of that car and Mike says
26:21
well it's right here it's been number
26:22
four one one seven that was the last
26:23
Cunningham car built and Grace went into
26:25
the file cabinet he pulls out the
26:27
original dealer invoice for the car he
26:28
says yep it's one of all cars that's
26:30
incredible that blew me away when I
26:32
heard that story Kevin are there any
26:34
logistical tips that you can offer the
26:36
listeners and viewers for them to book
26:38
travel arrangements to come to see the
26:40
unveiling of these cars yeah most of the
26:42
hotels in the area are probably booked
26:44
but if you're going to fly fly into
26:46
Jacksonville you're not too far from
26:47
Georgia you'll probably get some really
26:49
reasonable rates in Georgia there's some
26:51
better breakfast places you could
26:53
probably go online and search around and
26:55
if you're local you come for the day
26:56
that's fantastic buddy wrapping up is
26:59
there anything else you want to say
27:00
about the Amelia Island weekend and the
27:02
event coming up well just make sure your
27:04
batteries are charging on your camera
27:05
you'll be taking a lot of pictures we
27:07
got some crazy surprises and I can't
27:09
tell you about because it's going to be
27:10
a surprise it's going to be a lot of
27:12
people come down just for this event
27:13
because I think it's going to bring the
27:14
crowd in this is the 100th anniversary
27:16
of Le Mans they started Lamar in 1923 so
27:19
we're looking forward to it but yeah
27:20
we're really really excited about it
27:22
that's fantastic I can't wait to come
27:24
down and see this this will be
27:26
Monumental this will be historic of Epic
27:28
Proportions this will be great I want to
27:31
mention one more thing here if it wasn't
27:32
for Lance Miller and Erwin Croy allowing
27:35
us to be the caretaker for the number
27:37
three class winner car for the last 18
27:39
months and that was a tremendous help
27:41
for us because if we had a question
27:43
about something we just won't go over to
27:45
the three car and look at it took a
27:46
picture another picture or measurements
27:48
and what else we had to do so because I
27:50
really want those cars as exactly as we
27:52
possibly can make them these guys were
27:54
just gentlemen Kevin here's the keys you
27:55
know what you have to do take it and we
27:57
did these cars look like twins they
27:59
really do one's got a three one's got a
28:00
one I can't wait to see them this will
28:02
be so fantastic buddy thank you so much
28:05
for coming back on Corvette today and
28:07
talking about out the debut of these
28:08
three cars coming back together we will
28:10
see you March 3rd 4th and 5th in Florida
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down at Amelia Island can't wait looking
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