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CORVETTE TODAY #196 - Dr. Mark Davis and Six Of His All-Time Favorite Corvettes
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May 8, 2025
Every Corvette owner has a story. And when you have owned over 150 Corvettes, you've got a lot of stories! Dr. Mark Davis was on CORVETTE TODAY #188, which was the Mecum Kissimmee preview show. Mark talked about the 3 prisine Corvettes up for auction at Mecum Kissimmee. Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, invited Mark back to the show to talk about a few of his favorite Corvettes he has owned of the 150+ he's had. Mark's theme for this show are Red-Red Corvettes. He tells you about his favorite Corvette ever and some of the more memorable ones he's had the pleasure to have owned. Every Corvette owner has a story-Dr. Mark Davis' stories are significant and very memorable!
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Corvette owner has a story as a matter of fact we've done two shows with that theme in mind well continuing on that
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theme is a man that I talked to in the middle of November in episode number 188 he's Dr Mark Davis and Mark has owned
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over 150 Corvettes in his lifetime I can imagine the Corvette stories he has well
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Mark is back on the show and he's going to talk about some of the most significant Corvettes he's owned first
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Mark welcome back to the show and I guess I would be remiss if I didn't ask you right off the bat how many Corvettes
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are in your garage right now well Steve first of all thanks again for having me back on your show I
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sincerely appreciate it and you know I want to say too that God bless us with an amazing sports car in Corvette
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America's True sports car and I have to say he's blessed us with you too because you help share the passion that we enjoy
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so much with all us Corvette guys so thank you thank you buddy now to answer your question and this could be
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considered a top secret question but currently in my Corvette Barn I call
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it I have eight Corvettes here and then I have six at another top secret location
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I like that that's really cool all right so tell me about the oldest one and then the most recent acquisition okay the
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oldest one I have right now is one of the three cars that I'm taking to mikum
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CMI that we've talked about on your previous show that's the 1962 red red
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lowest smile first generation Corvette in existence so that's the oldest one I have right now but my newest edition is
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a brand new I took delivery in June at the National Corvette Museum of a 2023
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z63 LZ with z7 race package it's a white
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coupe with black interior red stitching very nice that's my newest edition that's awesome well I'm sure the most
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memorable Corvette of yours would be maybe your first Corvette let's talk about that car first where did you get
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it when did you get it and do you remember why you picked that specific Corvette as your first one well I can
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our topic today is significant Corvettes that I've owned and I must say this is the most significant Corvette that I've
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ever owned in the fact that we wouldn't be talking today if I hadn't bought this Corvette that's right it started
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everything it all began when I was 5 years old I spotted my first Corvette
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and went on from there to start working at the age of 10 my goal was to be able to buy a Corvette by the time I got my
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driver's license at 16 I didn't quite make it but by the time I was 17 I
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bought my first Corvette that first one was a red convertible black top two toop
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convertible 35350 1969 I had spotted it in town it was of
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course at the time used this was in 1972 as I said I was 17 the couple in town
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had it and they had it for sale so that's what I purchased that was a very very significant car because I went on
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to learn everything about it I learned how to drive drive it I went to a little driving school and worked on it myself
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and learned everything about the car inside and out and it proved to me that
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a Corvette was everything that I had dreamed of as a young kid and I have to say it was probably the most significant
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Corvette in my life because it cemented that passion for Corvette which I still have today as strong as it was back then
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absolutely and it was a manual transmission too wasn't it yes it was a 350 350 with manual transmission for
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speed and I believe it had 370 to1 gear ratio and I'll tell you even to this day
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after all the Corvettes I've owned that was just one of the best combinations of drivetrain to learn on and to really
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perform well and matter of fact I have two of those today I have a 69 Coupe and a 69 convertible like that same first
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Corvette that both of these have the 350 350 with manual transmission and 370
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gear and it's just a great allaround good driver it really proved to me that
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Corvette was all it was said to be and then some and that I would have to have one the rest of my life in my life that
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made you a Corvette guy for life for sure didn't it for life and now here we are 51 years later and I've been blessed
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to have owned as you said in your intro 150 or so Corvettes and I love them as much as I did 51 years ago that's
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amazing now let's talk about the mcnamer Corvette that you've owned it's a well-known Corvette and this car is kind
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of what gave you the reputation of being the low mile original Corvette guy didn't it it did you know I was known in
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certain circles as the low M original guy but this really put me on the radar
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of a lot of people I guess you might say for the listeners out there you can Google the mcnamer Corvette or do a
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YouTube search for Dr Mark Davis 2,996 mile Corvette and you'll see all
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kinds of stories and videos about this car it was just an incredible piece of
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Automotive History that was significant in the fact that it's still to this day probably the most prestine all original
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like brand new lowest mile 1967 Corvette 427 stingray in existence wow now there
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is one supposedly that has a few lower miles on it but it has been disassembled
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and reassembled for the fact that it was bought new to race back in the day and then the guy didn't race it and then
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years later it was reassembled so it has lower miles but it's not a true original car like that mcnamer Corvette truly is
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now why was it called the mcnamer Corvette I name all my Corvettes and I named this one Big Mac appropriately
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after the original owner whose name was Donnie mcnamer okay Donnie was a young
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man in 1966 that lived from Colorado Springs and he went to Vietnam but like
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so many guys did back in the day he survived a tour of Vietnam for our country when he returned home as I said
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lived in Colorado Springs so him and his buddy celebrated their return from the war by going to Las Vegas for a weekend
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he would also often go on to tell before he pass it that was the only time he ever went to Las Vegas in his life but
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he happened to win Believe It or Not Steve he won $5,000 playing a slot machine wow that
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was a ton of money in the fall of 1966 for sure so he returned home as I said
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he came back from Vietnam he lived with his parents and his father was a used car salesman there locally in Colorado
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Springs so he took the $5,000 to his dad and said Dad please help me buy a new
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Corvette and I want a 427 and I want it to be white with red interior he said
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they're coming out with a third generation Corvette and I don't like it so let's hurry and order this car so his
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dad says well I don't think we can get a new 67 427 with $5,000 but I'll try so
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he did and long story short he found a dealer in Lamar Colorado that sold him a
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brand new white 67 Coupe 427 red interior Donnie was a very patriotic guy
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and he wanted this white with red Corvette and as soon as it came home he took the Black Walls off and put a tire
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that was popular in the day that had two blue pen Stripes you may have remembered it Steve yeah so at that point when he
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put those tires on he had a red white and blue Corvette it was somewhat special going back to the the story of
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the car so Donnie drove it for about 10 or 11 months licensed it insured it
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drove it sparingly but after that the license came due the taxes came due
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insurance came due and he just told everybody that he'd sold the car huh he tucked it away in his onec car climate
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controlled garage and kept it there for the next 40 plus years wow and would
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sneak it out at night put a few miles on it to keep it exercised and put it back in the garage so when the odometer got
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to 2,996 Miles he didn't want it to cross over the 3,000 barrier so he never drove
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it again and he literally laid red carpet around it amazing going back to
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the significance of that car it's just a true Benchmark of how exactly a 67
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Corvette rolled off the assembly line in 1967 that's really cool now how did you
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acquire the car Mark I acquired it I actually had a broker calling me that was trying to buy one of my Corvettes
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and he happened to have just heard about it a day or two before he called me inquiring about another one of my
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Corvettes and he proceeded to tell me about it he said you're the first person I've told he then asked me are you
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interested he said all I know is it's white red interior and it's supposed to have only 2,900 miles on and I said yes
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I'm interested under one condition and he said okay what's that and I said I'm the first one there nice and he said
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okay we've got a deal I said good I'm shaking your hand over the phone so I was the first one there Donnie had
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passed away so I purchased it from his estate do you still own that car no it
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was sold at meum Houston in 2014 I sold the car there and I've kept track of it
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since a friend of mine actually bought it who lives near Chicago and he still owns the car today and it's exactly the
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way it was how Donnie left it that's fantastic well Mark let's take our first break when we come back we've got two
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more Corvettes to talk about one is named Ziggy and the other is a red 66
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docomo Steve Garrett with me is Dr Mark Davis we're talking about some of the most significant cars Mark has owned out
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of the 150 plus Corvettes he's owned in his lifetime in segment number two we're
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going to talk about Siggy and also a red 66 Mark let's start with sigy first
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let's talk about it it's a 1958 and it had a unique color combination on it didn't it yes hence the name sigy this
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car was signant red with red interior Steve and the reason that it was so
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significant is that it is believed to be the only all original signant Red
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Corvette with original paint in existence wow yeah 1958 was a unique
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year for paint colors on a lot of cars especially Corvette I think there was three or four colorss that Corvettes
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were painted in 1958 that were only used in 1958 and one of those colors was signant
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red and if your listeners aren't familiar with signant red it's a real creamy pale 50 style red that in the
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Corvette World they call it the tomato soup car because it literally looks creamy
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like a bowl of Campbell's tomato soup W it's a very hard color by the way to duplicate if you are restoring a
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Corvette and once again going back to the significance of this car which I Nam
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sigy is the fact that it was believed to be the only signant Red Corvette in existence that had 100% of its all
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original paint wow and it was just a little cream puff it was a 283 230
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3-speed signate red with red interior it had only 37,000 miles a friend of mine
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who's a National Corvette restore Society Regional director at one time and has been a judge for multiple years
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purchased it from the estate of the original owner and and then I purchased it from him I went on to take it to have
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it judged it won a Bloomington Survivor award there's only been three
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1958 ever to win the coveted five-star bow tie preservation award by the ncrs
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wow this is one of those three and not only is it one of the three it's the only five-star bow tie Award winner in
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Signet red of course man so it was just a very significant car and for people
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that own 58 or were restoring 58 to actually see hey that's how that color
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really truly looks and looked in 1958 it was a fun significant car and I
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must say too the ladies seem to love that car nice and they only made like 1,400 of signant red didn't they yeah I
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think actually was 1399 I think they made okay there was some other colors that were unique to 58
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like Panama yellow and then there was a tan as well so it's one of those rare Corvettes that you hardly will ever see
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one but once you do you know hey that's a tomato soup car that's funny do you
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still own that car Mark no I sold it in 2021 at meum Indianapolis along with
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some other red red survivors very nice speaking of red red survivors we've got another C2 here that we're going to talk
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about what's the spec on this Corvette oh well going back to nick names as you
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tend together I name most of my cars and my wife has fun helping me but this next
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car we're going to talk about was very significant so significant that I named it Zora after the Corvette Founding
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Father Zora Arcus dun the reason it was significant this car is believed to be
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if not the lowest mile one of the lowest mile 1966 stingrays in existence of
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course it was the first year for 427 in Corvette and this car was a
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1966 Corvette convertible 427 390 horsepower four-speed red and then this
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is the kicker it had red leather interior oo yes and you know red with
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red leather was rare back in the 60s most guys in the 60s wouldn't order
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leather interior Le alone red leather interior one of the significant things of this car is it was ordered new by a
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female that's why it ended up with red leather interior oh very nice and it's won a lot of Awards as well hasn't it
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it's probably the most awarded 66 Corvette in the world it also had won an
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ncr's five-star bow tie preservation award I took it on to win Bloomington
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Survivor gold and Benchmark it also won Best in Class at the second ever Green
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Brier Concourse de Elegance in preservation class and was on the cover of their magazine and it was also used
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by them in their promotional marketing for their Concor the Elegance so it was a very very special car and I must say
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it was a beautiful car the red with red leather convertible with black top it was stunning had to be a show Shopper
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that's for sure yes absolutely and a little story about the car I told you that it was ordered new by a female
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hence the red leather interior I had a couple letters that I'd received from the original owner and I must say she
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was a little Spitfire she was from the Pittsburgh area and a wealthy lady that had a Lakehouse in 1965 she had a 65
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Mustang that she would keep at her Lakehouse and drive around and play with she heard in the fall of 1966 that
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Corvette had come out with a 427 Corvette that would outrun her Mustang so she had to have one so she ordered
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this car red with red leather interior and replaced her Ford Mustang and then
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she would go on to say in her letters and fast it was she said I got two speeding tickets in the car and almost
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lost my driver's license that's awesome now where is that car today Mark that
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car I sold it did in the red red Survivor collection of meim Indianapolis it was bought by a private Corvette
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collector to be honest he was Anonymous and I don't know where that car is today gotcha gotcha well buddy let's take our
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Corvette owner has a story I'm with Dr Mark Davis who has owned over50 Corvettes in his lifetime in this final
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segment we've got more red red Corvettes mark let's get the first one up here and talk about the backstory on this red C2
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absolutely glad to Steve and continuing as you said with the red red theme I
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tend to like red red cars but I do like other colors as well but this next car we're going to talk about was another
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significant Corvette as per the theme of this show and the significance of this car is it happens to be the only red red
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1965 396 known to have ever won a Bloomington Survivor gold and Benchmark
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Awards wow as I said it was a 1965 red red convertible 396 both tops
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with a foure what made it special it's the only one in red red a 396 to ever
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win those Awards so it was very special I may say this too as a young kid I always thought that 1965 was a special
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year and the fact that you know that was the first year of a big block and the only year that 396 was put into a
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Corvette I was going to say the 65s had a lot of first in them didn't they 65
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had a lot of first not only for Corvettes but for the automotive World in general as I said it was the first
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year for a big block engine ever put in a Corvette which debuted as a 396 with a
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425 horsepower rating it was also the first year for such items as disc brakes
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Teakwood steering wheel power antenna Goldline tires I believe comfort and
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convenience group as I said there was a lot of first in Corvette for that year and speaking of that 396 when they put
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the 396 in the Corvette they had to make some extra room for it so they had that
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new bulging hood on a 65 396 that was just kind of cool as a kid if you saw
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one you'd think wow that's not a normal Corvette it's got something bulging out from under that hood it's got to be
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something special yeah you know you just can't beat a good midyear C2 Corvette Mark you can't I mean there's nothing
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like them and if you've driven them they're very special to drive yeah and it was just cool the fact that 65 was
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the only year for a 396 and I think they only Built something like 2150 some of them wow and they were just
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very cool they had a unique sound unique feel and believe it or not I've had so many of the 65s I think I've had four or
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five 65s and they even have a unique interior smell when you get to know them
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so it's kind of cool yeah it's really cool now you touched on some of the awards that this car has won let's talk about the awards it's one and some of
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the national accolades as well yes as I said it's the only red red 396 1965
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Corvette of everyone Bloomington Survivor golden Benchmark and in 2009 it
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was displayed at the Bloomington gold special collection which was very cool
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in addition to that sports car market magazine founder and publisher and TV
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personality Keith Martin I'm sure you know Keith oh yeah he declared in one of his magazines back when it was in the
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special collection that it was probably the finest example of an original 1965
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396 425 convertible in existence obviously this was a very special
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historically important corette yeah absolutely all right so let's go from a red C2 to a red C3 you've got another
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big significant C3 Corvette for us another big red significant Corvette this was a
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1968 also red red 427 435 convertible
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that I appropriately named Red Baron and again speaking of low miles and low mile original this car was all original of
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course it was a two-top convertible it had the of course the 427 435 and is
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believed to be the best low mile all original and most award-winning 1968 427
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435 in existence in red red wow so very special car it had been used and
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continues to be used at multiple judging training seminars to train judges on how
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68s were built they were a unique bird in the fact that it was the first year for C3 so there were quite a few things
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a little different on the' 68 that changed in ' 69 and later years the judges are all always really interested
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in seeing one that's all original and still in presstine condition so that
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they can study and learn from that car yeah this had a rare build spec on it too didn't it it did in the fact that it
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is red red two toop convertiable 427 435 so they didn't make very many that way I
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mean I'd be willing to say there was maybe only a handful red red 427 435 convertibles left yeah absolutely and
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this one happened to have only 27,000 very wellmaintained documented original
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miles and was simply in just Immaculate presstine all original condition the
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convertible top has been pictured and studied for the judge's manual because it was so pristine and so like new that
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it's been used as an example that's really really cool where is that car now Mark that car was sold also at a meum
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auction in 2021 it went to a gentleman in Florida who has several Corvettes and
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he's continuing to keep it preserved and calls me from time to time to check in and let me know how it's doing and also
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ask me preservation questions on what he should do and shouldn't do and I want to also add that that car talking about the
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significance Steve I think there's only been 11 1968 Corvettes to have ever won
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an NCS five-star bow tie preservation award and this is the only one in red
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red to have ever won that award and only one of 11 to have ever won the award in general so that's very special and I
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also might add that it also has won a preservation class award at the Green Brier Concourse the Elegance along with
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Bloomington Survivor gold and Benchmark Awards it was also displayed in
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Bloomington gold special collection of shark Corvettes in 2019 once again just
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a very special and significant piece of Corvette history that's just fun to look
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at very cool buddy this has been so much fun listening to hear you talk about all these Corvettes you've own this has just
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been absolutely fantastic thank you so much for taking the time to come back on Corvette today Steve thank you again you
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and Corvette today I really appreciate all that you do for our passion and I meant what I said in the beginning God
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