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CORVETTE TODAY #222 - Corey Peterson Talks About His Corvette, Believed To Be VIN #001 From 1953
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Jul 12, 2025
This CORVETTE TODAY show is very unique! The very first Corvette ever built was thought to be crushed years ago. Enter Corey Peterson, the man who found what is to be believed as the 1953 VIN #001 at a repair shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Corey did extensive research and found recommended modifications from 1953 still on this Corvette! Corey purchased the car and has the documentation to back the claim that this Corvette was the first one built in Flint, Michigan in 1953. It's a fascinating story that Corey tells your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett! Don't miss this episode - find out more about the first Corvette ever built! It's still in existence and it's story is told on CORVETTE TODAY.
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world. Today's show is a very unique one. This show talks about the very first Corvette ever built in 1953. It's
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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, Steve. It's my pleasure.
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I'm glad you're here, buddy. First of all, Corey, you've been researching Corvettes for a long time. Tell me more
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about your Corvette background. Well, I've been interested in Corvettes pretty much all of my driving life. When
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I was a kid, I had a 55 Chevrolet, and I got a 396 engine back in ' 66. The 427
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had just been barely debuted, but I was just elated to have this great big engine, and I was going to put it in a
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55 Chevrolet. Well, I got thinking, why would I want to put it in that big and
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heavy of a car? I looked around and I found a 57 Corvette for 275 bucks, my
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dream car, and I put that 396 together and made the baddest hot rod a kid could
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ever have. Wow, that's pretty cool. Now, how did you come across this 1953 Corvette VIN
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number one? Weren't you originally doing some research on early model Corvettes at the time?
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Indeed. I'd like to break up the early Corvettes into two facets. We have the
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experimental cars and we have the production cars. So, in essence, we have three experimental cars that were built
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from the five 19,000 series chassis. 19000 was the numerical grouping for the
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Corvette project before the Corvette name even came about. It was called the Opal Project. If you'll think back,
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Morris Ali was contracted to build five chassis. These were the new 102in
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wheelbased chassis, I believe, a Harley Earl concept. They built five chassis.
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They were numbered 852, 853, 854, 855,
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and 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
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production cars, which are pretty much confined to car number one through nine.
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Now, in the pre-production cars, 852 was built into the Motorama show car debuted
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at the Waldorf Histori Hotel. Mhm. That car was a showpiece. That is the
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car that ultimately ended up getting involved in the famous body burn tip.
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852 was a secondary show car because they started the Moto. They didn't have
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enough vehicle coverage to get the Corvette name out. So they built a
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second show car to follow the Moto Show that started at Dinner Key in Miami, Florida, and ended up in Kansas City mid
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June of 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 the front fenders to exhaust engine
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heat. No chrome on it. Very, very basic, a rather utilitarian looking car with
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the dog dish hub caps and the black wheels and tires. We've all seen pictures of that, right?
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Then we get into the production cars. So, we've got the three prototypes or
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experimentals, 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. Car
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number three also went to engineering, but it was assigned ES127-2.
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That's a General Motors engineering number, and it's separate from the Chevrolet engineering cars. Car number
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four was a new car that was sent out to J. Spencer Weed. J. Spencer Weed was a
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friend of Henry Dupont's daughter who 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. Car number five, also went to the
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DuPont estate in Wilmington. And that was D Crawford Greenwall. Crawford
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Greenwall was the CFO for the DuPont Corporation. He was Henry DuPont's right
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hand. Car number six went to Henry DuPont himself. 3953
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was assigned to car number seven. Car number eight was ES1 128-2
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and car number nine was ES129-3. Now that gives just a basic background
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of the placement and the whereabouts of the first nine production cars and the
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only three completely built prototypes or experimentals. Yeah,
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have I confused everybody yet? No problem, buddy. No, I've got it all down. Now, traditionally, GM destroys
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these early model cars. What do you think happened to this one that it escaped the crusher?
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Well, I hear throughout history, people say that General Motors destroyed these
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early cars. The only reference to destruction is a work order or a General
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Motors document that calls for EX52 to go to the proving grounds for a burn
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test. The body was separated from the chassis and the chassis went back to
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styling the top and interior and interior goods. The chassis was stretched and was assigned 857
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for the Nomad project. The Corvette Nomad was built on the first
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experimental chassis after it got stretched and went to styling. Number two, that car when it was terminated
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from its use at the Moto Show, they decided rather than having this
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unsightly 856 test car out at the proving grounds without any chrome trim
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on it, a very crude coarse looking car. They chose in December of 53 to pull the
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body off of 853 and put it onto 856.
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Now it said dispose of or scrap the takeoff body of 856, the coarse crude
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body. It said to scrap the frame or chassis out of EX53
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or 853. 852 show car. 853 show car
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respectively got assigned experimental numbers EX52 and EX53.
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I don't see anywhere where 856 ever got an EX56 VIN number, but if I find a
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document, I'll change my mind. There you go. Now, this Corvette was designated number 3950, and it was
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driven 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 exactly what
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happened. What they did is the car went directly from the production facility in
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Flint to the Milford proving grounds. Harry Bar took the car and drove it a
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bit and did a personal comparison of the car 2 days later. I don't have the documents in front of me, but was within
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the first week after the car was produced and kind of comparing car number one with car number 856, the
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experimental S mule car. Got it. Now, you went to the GM Heritage Center and you found 22 work orders or
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changes that were made to number 3950, which is VIN number one, didn't you? Let me correct that just a little bit. I
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managed to get hundreds of documents over the past 15 or 20 years. They were
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sourced from everywhere on the planet from people who have done corvettes and collected information. And yes, some of
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it was sourced from the Heritage Center through a good friend of mine. These documents have just been really, really
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helpful. But let's step back just a bit. John Ambert. He was one of the founding
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fathers of the National Corvette Restorer Society. Let me include John Abert was part owner of 53 Corvette
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number three which was ES127. Got it. John was inspired to do a lot of
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research on that car. He was able to unearth a tremendous number of documents
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from a General Motors attorney who was instructed by Jim Perkins. Jim Perkins
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brought the attorney into his office and he said, "With all the pressure that I'm getting from the Corvette community,
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draft a letter that gets you into any property, any building, any archive, any
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file cabinet, any holding of General Motors and see what you can find on
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Corvette history documents to kind of get the Corvette community off my back.
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you draft the letter, I'll sign it and you wear blue jeans and t-shirts to work. So this attorney, he did in fact
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get this letter. He told me that no one has ever been given that latitude of
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search within General Motors Corporation. Don't hold me to it, but I think it was in the late 80s when he did
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that. M now fast forward John Amler left the area and Howard Kers find car number
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three for sale when Ed theabod put it up for sale in Monterey California in ' 87
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they bought this car the Monterey auction what really inspired to do an
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indepth research program he reached out to this retired attorney and they managed to get a lot of information put
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together I got a lot of information from John Aworth largely published lished in
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the story that got published in the Corvette Restore magazine in the summer
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of 93. It's called The Earliest Corvettes. There is a text and documents
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that spell out the history of exactly what I'm telling everyone right now. I'm
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almost shocked by the people that come up with disputing ideas and it's spelled
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out in this article and I have researched it and I haven't been able to find anything that's not correct in that
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story that was published 30 years ago by John Award. Wow. Well, I tell you what, let's take
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Corey Peterson. Cory owns VIN number one Corvette from 1953. In this second
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segment, we're going to talk more about this car. Corey, originally you found this car in a shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
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and it was owned by somebody on the West Coast. Now, this Corvette was originally thought to be VIN number two, but it
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actually turned out with these 22 different changes that were suggested to be made on the Corvette, it actually was
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VIN number one, wasn't it? That's what my research ultimately proved out. The
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car was the Lloyd Miller shop in Oklahoma. The previous owner of the car
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was actually on the East Coast. He knew that Lloyd Miller had done a complete
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restoration on car number three. Lloyd was the one that restored car number three for lesser Howard Kirch and John
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Amort and he knew the car intimately. So this fellow who got the car I own now
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and he in his heart believed that it was car number two when he found it and it
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was based on good sound research on his part. Well, the car gets to Lloyd's
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place. Lloyd gets started on it and the car gets disassembled. the paint and
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stripped down to bare fire the like the owner's daughter took ill. It shifted
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gears for him. His daughter ultimately passed away, sorry to say, but he kind
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of felt the car. The car got pushed off to the side in Lloyd Miller's place and
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basically forgotten about. Lloyd had put the word out to those of us who are
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interested and curious about the early early cars and said, "The owner thinks it's car number two. I'm not convinced
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that it is. He said, I would love all of you guys who have researched some of this stuff. When you get a chance, come
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and look at the and offer your opinion. Laurenberg, who has since passed away, a
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very good friend of mine, he and I used to do a lot of research work together. And Lauren went to Tulsa. John went to
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Tulsa. We all had a chance to see the car and offer our opinion of what we
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thought we saw. But I picked up on something that neither John nor Lauren picked up on. The floors under the seats
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had been lowered. It looked like they been cut out and maybe an access door
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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
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have the seat bolster lowered anch and a quarter and 3A 3/4 of an inch and I'm
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thinking the floor looks to be lowered right at of an inch. I out to a design
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staff engineer for General Motors friend of mine and I said in styling what is the a point for seat placement he says
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it's the platform that the seat sats on the floor we did seat lowering that's
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what really got me convinced that 3950 was car number one
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yeah also the fuel door was redesigned talk about that for just a quick second okay part that confused me was when I
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was looking at the fuel door configuration. It was the type you would see on late 53 and 54 run where the gas
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door lid lifts up and over the top of the fender. The early design 53 folded
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down into the cavity of the gas filler box and it obstructed access to the
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filler cap. This had the later design and I thought that should not be on car
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number one. Well, as I got looking back through documents, I found the document
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that says, "Install new design gas filler box and hinge cover assembly on
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car 3950." That was just a confirmation smoking gun for me quite frankly.
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Yeah. And the amazing thing is this car sat in Lloyd Miller shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma for almost 20 some odd years,
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didn't it? That is correct. When the previous owner's daughter took ill, his interest shifted. Quite honestly, Lloyd and the
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previous owner lost contact for that 20-year period. Wow. The other funny story that I think
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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 a part, loaded that up in the car. I started digging through what I got, what I don't have,
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what I need to get. There was no engine or transmission. I emptying out this one cardboard box and I could hear nuts and
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bolts, little things rounding around in there. I dumped it upside down on the floor and then I pulled the flaps up and
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underneath one of the flaps was the VIN number. I think I was shaking like a leaf. You know, it was just an amazing
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find. That's really amazing. And you bought the car from the original East Coast owner and then got it from Lloyd
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Miller's place in Tulsa back to your home in Salt Lake City. Correct. Yes. In essence, I had to buy it from
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each of them. I didn't know how to sneak up on the previous owner. I certainly
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didn't want to play down the importance of the car. I first approached him. I
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said, "You have this. It's obviously a unique early early car. The car really
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should be moved forward, should be put together. If you're lacking anything for
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putting it together, I'd sure like to network with you and help you get everything you need to get the car put back together."
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He didn't express much. And I said, "Well, the other side of that would be if you're ready to pass the torch, I
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would be the keeper of the car. If you could come to terms with it, I think I would sell." And so based on that, I had
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to approach the body shop owner, restoration shop owner for the storage and paid balance on the car, and I
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certainly had to pay the previous owner. So, I bought it from both. That's interesting. Well, Corey, let's
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I'm your host Steve Garrett. With me is Corey Peterson. Corey owns the 1953 VIN
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number one Corvette. In this third and final segment, we're going to talk about Corey's plans for the car. Corey, you're
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going to do a full restoration on this car. How's that going to go? Well, what I want to do, there's a lot
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of people that are curious about the origin of the car. I like for people to
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see it in its raw form. When I got the car from Lloyd Miller's shop in Tulsa,
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the car was stripped down to bare fiberglass. I found an appropriate engine. I had the original information
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on what the engine should say. I went ahead and did in essence a restoration
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engine for the car and a transmission that was out of a 54 Corvette that's
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functional. It's not dated right, but it serves the purpose of getting the car out and about for people to see. Those
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who are doubters and naysayers, I want them to physically look it over and see
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it before anything gets sugarcoated. I suspect that I'll move forward with a
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restoration, but there's no real hurry. It's never too late to pay the car.
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There you go. So, what does this car need in order to get it back to its original form? Well, that's another thing that's a bit
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of a question. I am choosing to leave every 3950
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identifiable modification intact on the car. I think it would be a gross mistake
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to undo those changes to get it back as it would have been as it rolled off the
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assembly line back in June 30th, 1953. I think it would destroy some of the
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heritage of the car. So, I'm going to leave those few changes that are subtle from appearances and some of these
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changes ultimately got entered into the assembly line and they made these changes on all the subsequent builds of
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the cars. Gotcha. I know you have no time frame or timeline for the restoration of this
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car. What are your plans for the car after you've done the restoration? I don't know. Look for something better.
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I've had a lot of people say, "What do you do after this?" Yeah. You know, I love all Corvettes. I just
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acquired a 63 split window and it's the epitome of what we would want for a
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luxury cruiser. I've launched a restoration. My friend Rex Marshall is restoring the car for me. It's a black
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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.
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That's awesome. The 63 split window is what got me into Corvettes when I was a little boy. So, I'm anxious to see that
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restoration. Now, is John Amwart gonna work with you on this 53 VIN number one car?
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John Amwart is part owner of the car with me. We have worked together. Every
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aspect of this car, every minute of it has been shared with John where John has shared with me. We've worked on it
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collectively. That's wonderful. Well, Corey, thank you so much for being on Corvette today. I
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appreciate your time. All the best of luck with this VIN number one from 1953.
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