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