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May 9, 2025
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This video covers what is the story of the legendary Corvette SS, along with the following topics:
- 1957 Chevrolet Corvette SS
- History of the Chevrolet Corvette SS
- How the Corvette SS became a classic
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Many people do not know the story of the Corvette SS and maybe have never heard of it. It was the first purpose-built GM racecar and personal project of Zora Arkus Duntov's.
It was raced in 1957 at the 12 Hours of Sebring by John Fitch. A number of technological features were first tested on this car, including fuel injection. This car will be sold at auction at Sotheby's in Miami in February 2025.
Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, is joined by Jan Hyde, Corvette race car historian and founder of Registry Of Corvette Race Cars.com. Jan gives us the complete backstory of this legendary Corvette. You'll learn about its origins, it's development, it's racing pedigree and the estimated price it will sell for at auction.
Learn about an integral piece of Corvette racing history, the Corvette SS, on this episode of CORVETTE TODAY.
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at auction returning to Corvette today to tell the story is Jan Hyde Jan is the
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Corvette race car historian he's the co-founder found ER and manager of registry of Corvette rar.com and Jan was
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actually on Corvette today number 22 back in September of 2020 to talk more about the registry of Corvette race cars
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but today we are going to be talking about the Corvette SS Jan welcome back to Corvette today my friend hey Steve
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it's a great pleasure thank you Jan let's get right into it give me the backstory on the Corvette SS well Steve
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the backstory is that the museum at the Indie Motor Speedway is going through a
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big renovation and they have decided to sell some seven cars in their collection
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that don't actually relate to race cars that ran at the nd500 and so the Corvette SS is one of
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those cars we talked a little bit about graphics and we have a lot of photos of this car which maybe we can use I want
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to put in a big thank you to Lis galanos who's an author and a storian Who is
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known Sebring backwards and forwards and can he curated photos especially by a
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photographer whose name was Jean busian who showed up at that time and got all these candid shots that you wouldn't
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find from a PR point of view and also to Doug Morton who is an incredible Sebring
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race car historian and has has hundreds and hundreds of photos so having paid our thank yous to them the story really
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begins in 1955 because as we know the Corvette was not
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doing so well before they they had the blue flame 6 and it was overpriced and
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they weren't selling very many of those cars obviously the Corvette SS was a
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creation of Harley Earl who you know was a great stylist but let's go back a
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little bit to 1956 if we could in 1956 Ed Cole who was the chief engineer of
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Chevrolet deved develop a V8 engine it was 265 cubic in and it packed more
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punch and it weighed a lot less than the blue flame 6 which is installed in the
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1953 and 54 models at that time we also know that Zora dun who had racing in his
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DNA knew this car was not selling too well and he prevailed upon Ed Cole and
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the folks at GM they say hey we've got to prove this car in competition or it's
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going to to die and and I don't think that GM folks wanted that to happen the place to race this car was Sebring and
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this was in late 1955 and the 12 hours of Sebring was coming up on March 24th
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in 1956 it was only months away Duna was very very worried there was none of time
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to prepare this car Smokey unic I think we've all heard about him he was a guru
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of race cars in Daytona they sent him a 1956 corette his comment was this thing
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doesn't handle better than a manure spreader it's too heavy it can't stop everything's wrong of course they were
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upset and they didn't want to have anything more to do with Smokey after that but nonetheless zorao legitimately
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was very concerned because he felt that if the Corvette failed the odds were not
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very good he would be very embarrassed it was one of those times I think we all
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try to summon up our courage but Zora honest ly felt that hey maybe it's
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better not me Ed Cole was not a man to sit on his hands he said look I'm going to go find John Fitch John Fitch was
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really America's top sports car racer at that time one of the incredible things
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about John Fitch is he was the only American invited to drive for the
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mercedesbenz race car team and he would have possibly continued but you know
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there was this huge crash at mman in 195 55 and Mercedes dropped out of racing
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right but in any event we have John Fitch they put this car together it's unbelievable they had to build these
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cars so fast that they scavenger frames off of 1955 Corvettes they got rid of
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those bodies and they put the 56 body on which you knew was a big Improvement it had roll up Windows didn't have those
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silly side curtains and all the stuff they got the car into the race and the interesting thing also is there were
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three other Cor vets that were part of this entry also it was called Raceway Enterprises because GM did not want to
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tell the world they were behind this but in any event they had four cars in here and there was the five six and seven
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cars which did not finish but fit's car was a little bit extra prepared I think
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he had a four-speed transmission a little hotter motor and he was in a class that turned out to be a one of one
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because Ford Thunderbird was going to do an entry and they dropped out at the last minute wow so long story short John
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fit and Walt hanskin all they had to do was finish but they did fish was an intellect he said we got more than we
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expected and more than we deserved however the interesting thing is that
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the folks at GM they know how to tell stories and they said wow we won a 12-hour race in our first time out this
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is terrific that was the impetus to go all out instead of going to win a class
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there was nazerati there was Ferrari and jaguar they're going for the number one they said hey let's build something
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super special a prototype that was the Genesis of the Corvette SS it was
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originally called experiment project 64 Jan let's take our first break here and when we come back we'll talk more about
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4231 I'm your host Steve Garrett with me is Jan Hyde we are talking about the famous Corvette SS that's going to be
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auctioned off at sbe's Miami in February of 2025 Jen a lot of elements of this
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car were borrowed from other brands weren't it that's correct General Motors say hey we're pretty hopped up by
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winning a 1956 let's develop a car to win the whole thing the prototypes at
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the time were Ferrari Maserati and jaguar thanks to what Fitch knew about
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the Mercedes because he raced with them and he was an engineer Also may not be
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aware of a pretty sharp guy the chassis was built quickly from scratch but it bore a lot of traits from Mercedes but
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not withstanding the Corvette SS was again done on a very short timeline and it was riddled with problems leading to
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failure that put that car out of action for good as we shall C by happen stance
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an offshoot of the Corvette SS became the precursor of the stingray look the
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offshoot came from a car called The Mule dunov thought wow I know that this car
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is going to be styled to the max but this race is coming up and we don't know much about Sebring and how it's going to
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work out so he took the initiative to build a car it was kind of rough looking
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but it would mimic the Corvette SS in most respects mechanically and all that
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so this car was called The Mule and again with no time to lose Fitch was stationed at Sebring and they gave him
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this car and he spent January February and March pounding around that track
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finding every possible defect I mean the brakes weren't very good it wasn't handling and it could overheat so what
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they had to do then is go back to GM and order parts that they would make and put
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a part number off it ship it back down there put it onto the car go run it out again and try to get it ready for the
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race which is in March 23rd 1957 it's worth a minute to talk about the mule
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because we're all familiar with Bill Mitchell who pioneered the stingray look he took over for Harley Earl when the
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Corvette SS failed and we can get into that a little bit this mule was hanging around and Bill Mitchell again was a
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pretty Dynamic guy and he said wow to buy that thing and he paid for it pay GM
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out of his own pocket and he designed this body that was the precursor of the
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stingray he hired dick Thompson who was one of the big Corvette Racers of the
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time to drive it and the car was incredibly light it weighed only 18850 lbs it was lighter than a standard
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Corvette by about 1,000 lbs and Dick Thompson won the Seca C modified
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championship in 1960 yeah so Harley Earl and his stylist back in Michigan were
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going over every detail and they were did a great job they chose to make the
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body out of magnesium because it was lighter and save weight but here again
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because they don't have a chance to test things out magnesium conducted a lot more heat when they got the Corvette SS
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down or even a short amount of time the cockpit heat became a real problem and you know when you're driving a race car
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the last thing you need to be is not be comfortable right dur during the time that the SS was being worked on back in
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Michigan Zora dunov was buzzing all over Sebring when he could and he sought out
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the great Sterling moss and Juan Miguel fangio said hey you know I like you guys
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to try this car out you know it may be a little bit crude but give it a go each of them agreed okay we're going to get
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into this thing and they went out and each of them beat the lap record at Sebring wow that's how good this car was
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going to be mechanically but they also had some great misgivings because I said
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hey they knew the real car was still being worked on in fact people say it
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was still being worked on in his trailer on the way to Sebring and they said wow
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this thing's going to arve way too late it's not going to get worked out and they were 100% right dunov recruited
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someone called Pierro trufi he's written books on racing he was an Italian called
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the Silver Fox and he said pack your bag and get over here we're going to drive the Corvette SS nice anyway arriving The
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Day Before the Race turned out the Corvette completed just 23 laps a bushing in the rear suspension had
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collapsed it couldn't be fixed but there were other problems to they on break balance issues and all kinds of things
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so that led to unfortunately the demise of the Corvette SS what ultimately
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happened to the SS well here's what happened they said okay no big deal you know we learned our lesson but we're
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going to go prepare for LOM that's where we're going to be able to have a chance to race this car and impr prove it again
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against the Prototype and again I'm not sure people knew at the time but the track at Sebring which is made up of
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airport runways and asphalt and all kinds of things it pounded the heck out of cars and people felt that 12 out
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receiver and if you could get through that you had a better chance of lons but that's just another thing right and again I don't want to go into this right
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now but I did a little homework on a man named Alec UL l m who started the race
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at Sebring and it's a fascinating story because he was such a interesting engineer race car Pioneer guy and Seca
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and so the Sebring race and we might talk about a little bit later became The Crucible for Corvettes when they
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developed Corvettes over the years very shortly after Sebring was April 1957 GM
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pulled the plug they said we are getting out of sports car racing and it turned out that put the Corvette SS out of
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commission it was toast it would never race again the official word was safety
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but the real reason was much more Sinister because the threat of corporate
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breakup at the hands of US government was a real threat there were anti-rust
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Watchdogs out there they noted Steve that GM controlled 50% of the market wow
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in fact what isenhower was President of the time and his secretary of defense
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formerly was president of General Motors and his name was Charles Wilson his quote was what's good
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for General Motors is good for the country now this was some serious serious issues race fans are very upset
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about this to the day but you know when it comes to a big corporate issue it dwarfs everything else yeah so GM being
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a public company what they typically do they sent these things to the crusher you know what that's a good place for us
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to take a break Jan let's take our final break we'll talk about the crusher and what happened ultimately to the SS
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4231 I'm your host Steve Garrett with me is Jan Hyde Jan and I are talking about the legendary Corvette SS that will be
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sold in February 2025 at Saab bees in Miami in our last segment Jan you said
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fate intervened because the Corvette SS was destined for the crusher this has got to be a great backstory what
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happened to the Corvette SS and why did it not go to the crusher well again we can thank dor arus
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dunov for that while he played a great part in engineering and designing the SS
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there's probably something emotional in Zora there's a lot of emotion in Zora to be honest with you he was concerned
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about this GM being very profit and loss oriented say you know we can't have this thing hanging around it's going to cost
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us money he managed to dodge those folks for a while he hid the car and he also
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reached out to the folks at the Indianapolis Speedway Museum it was kind of getting started at the time also
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right and he prevailed on them to to take the car some people say he hustled out in the darkness of night I don't
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know about that but the car was moved to the Indie Museum it has been there until
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now when the in museum as we mentioned is selling off some cars to help in a big makeover the nice thing about the
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Indie museum is that they were very willing to lend the Corvette SS for
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display so a good part of the story is a happy part because instead of just
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sitting there Under Wraps are in a corner they were willing if you showed up and I guess you had to sign and Ure
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it and make sure it was going to not get hurt and all that bring it back of course the car did get around now I
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can't talk about all of them but I'm very attracted and emotional about this car if you haven't figured that out by
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now we raced a straight axle Corvette in vintage races and that took me out to
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Monteray in 1987 Steve Earl hold the montere historics and I think that was a
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75th anniversary of Chevrolet and believe it or not they reunited John
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Fitch and Zora dunov with the Corvette SS there the thing that was kind of
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amusing to me because I enjoy thinking about people and their personalities John Fitch drove that car around on the
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pace laps Zora was not allowed to drive the car and yet it was his creation and
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this probably got him a little bit steamed but I think he and Fitch got along but there might have been some
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strains of resentment going back when Zora took himself out of the 1956
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project and Fitch stepped in yeah but anyway I had another encounter with a Corvette SS in June 2013 Tony pello had
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taken over svra it's a big vintage Racing Organization and Tony has huge
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Ambitions and he prevailed on the Indie Motor Speedway to have a big vintage r
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weekend and so the Corvette SS which was at the Museum was rolled out we got a
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good chance to interact with it at that time another time was more recent couple
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more times on September of 2022 Lime Rock they jumped the gun on the 70th
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anniversary of Corvette they had an event there in 2022 a year early and
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they did an incredible job but there are some fellas who just really knew their way inside GM and they got race cars and
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all kind of displays going on in fact Mark Roy the president of GM came there he's the coolest guy and so they brought
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the SS to what they call Lime Rock historic Festival 40 finally last
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September of 2023 not 2024 there was a great event in Pontiac Michigan at a
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place called the M1 Concourse Steve if you haven't been there you might want to try to check it out it's a track that
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was built on like 80 or 90 Acres it was formerly a GM plant that some folks got
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a hold of and they rezoned it and they have it's like a Motorsports Country Club they have all these garage
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Condominiums around there and they have a racetrack and so they can drive around the track and also keep their prize
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possessions there it's really cool we had the Corvette SS there now we are up to present and and the Corvette SS is
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going to go for sale yeah I was going to ask you Jan saes has this estimated at5
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to7 million do you think that's an accurate assessment of the of this car yeah I think people have said the market
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for car especially cars like this is quote paper thin the auction companies though are pretty sharp they know what
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they're doing I'm not sure you might have seen it but they've already come out you can find it on the internet they
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come out with their hype about this car to their credit usually the auction companies say oh this car won it won
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that and blah blah blah blah blah but in this case never W anything and got stopped on tracks but the cool thing
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about this is it's extremely authentic it took place in a pivotal time in
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Corvette racing history and the personalities involved you know from Ed Cole to Harley Earl to Jor dunov and
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John fit and Bill Mitchell these are huge personalities and they all had some
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kind of an imprint on this car I for one feel very gratified to have this car but
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the price tag might be an issue all they have to do is maybe bring bring in some Shield biders or whatever it is I don't
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know about hou I think they're going to do a good job and I think whether it's 5 million or 6 million or 7 million my
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hope is the GM Heritage collection which not sure you've been to but it's a
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wonderful place it's expanding relocating from Sterling Height to Grand Blanc Township that's where the stingray
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racer sits the Corvette SS and the stingray racer are really joined at the hips because as we said the stingray
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racer is built on the underpinnings of the Corvette SS so if GM can Prevail and
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I don't think $5 million or $7 million that's a speed bump in their budget right I think that would be a nice thing
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but I'm saying this strictly out of sentiment I'm not being practical but that's my feelings and then on the other
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hand I think that the folks at the Corvette museum it's a great place for a
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display there and instead of having to put up the money I'm sure consistent with the IMs Lending out this GM would
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be happy to lend the Corvette SS out for display at the Museum I'm going to end up with this I don't know about you
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Steve but when I look at this car and if you see a picture of me next to this thing at the M1 Conquest I got my hands
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wrapped around this thing I could almost make love to this car I'm kissing it it just brings out the best feeling you
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cannot look at this car and say I hate that if you're talking about a symbol Goodwill and what GM and everybody else
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tries to do on a social Med media I think the Corvette SS is a home run so
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if I can finish it at that I hope that that's satisfactory that's a great place to finish Jan thank you so much for
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being back on Corvette today my friend it has been too long let's make the next one a lot closer to this one okay great
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