The Spyder hood has been found! Thanks Timmy with SMD for taking this pic. They also found a badge that had come off the car that was also autographed.
That’s Great!!! Look at all the signatures….HEY…LET’S NOT RESTORE THIS HOOD!!!!
Update from the Construction Managment company, Scott Murphy and Daniel from yesterday afternoon: We are continuing to carefully excavate around the 1.5M Vette. With the limited space, heavy rock boulders, and its position with the…See More
Thanks to this guy and all the workers. NICELY DONE!!! Can’t wait for the beautiful 1.5 to surface!!!
If you’ve never been to the National Corvette Museum, you should put that on your bucket list. If you are a car gal/guy you’ll love it, even more so, if you own or previously owned a corvette.
Here are my pictures I took of the 1, 500,000th Corvette on one of my trips to the NCM.
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One of the best looking Vette paint scheme wise.
Awesome look!!!
I actually thought about getting a decal for my C6 with the number on it!!
Current location of the 1.5 Mil Corvette Sad to see it here.
From what I can see at this time the 1.5 millionth car is being uncovered as it was laying beneath the Spyder. Here is an update from NCM:
“When we started digging around the Black Spyder, we found a piece of white fiberglass underneath it and we continued to expose that until we saw that it was the 1.5 Millionth car,” said Mike Murphy, CEO of Scott, Murphy and Daniel Construction. “We had no idea where it was, we just happened upon it. We hope when we move the white car we find the red car that way, because we’ve just not had any luck detecting where it is.” Murphy indicated that they have utilized metal detectors as well as probing rods, and that they remove layers of dirt as they probe but have not had a lot of luck so far.
On Monday, the team worked to continue removing dirt from around the Spyder, then in the early evening decided to carefully pull the car out of the remaining dirt.
“It was free everywhere except underneath there was a concrete slab wedged. We felt we had it in the best position, just like pulling a gun out of a holster. Everyone felt like it was best to take it so it wouldn’t bend and break if we’d had it exposed more,” Murphy said.
The team resumed recovery efforts early Tuesday morning, removing a large boulder that was lodged in the cabin of the Spyder and collecting bits and pieces of the car to help with any restoration or preservation efforts. The Spyder was removed from the depths of the hole around 9am CT, and is in worse shape than even the PPG Pace Car.
April Fool’s Day back in 1964 the Plymouth Barracuda was introduced.
1964 Barracuda
The base price for a ’64 ‘Cuda was about $2,500. The platform was the Valiant A-Body. The engine choices were between two variations of the Chrysler I6 (slant 6), either the 170 (2.8L) rated at 101 hp or the 255 (3.7L) with 140 hp. You could also get a V8, that was the 273 (4.5L) and with a two barrel carb it produced 180 hp.
Lot of Color Options!!!!
Same date back in 1970 the AMC proudly debuted what was perhaps the homeliest car of the era – the Gremlin.
1970 Gremlin. Fastback or ‘no back”
Again on April 1st, what was a innovated car for its time the Amphicar in 1961 was all car and part boat, was introduced. These babies are sought after aggressively.
Love the fins!!!
Engine – 1147 cc straight-4 (Triumph)
The Quandt Group made only 4000 between ’61-’68
Happy Birthday to Walter P. Chrysler who was born in 1875, on April 2nd. Wonder what he would have to say about government bailouts and Fiat?
Walter Chrysler
Regular production began of air-filled tires by Firestone on April 5, 1923.
The 1984 Bugatti Type 105 is a 4-wheeled what if, the car isn’t real of course and is the work of designer Nikita Bridan, though it has to be said, Nikita did a great job of capturing early-80s automotive design. His backstory for the Bugatti Type 105 is below in full:
The Bugatti type 105 was the last attempt to restart the company by Roland Bugatti and its road cars. An attempt to create the first digital super car, it featured extensive computer assists and software to keep the car in control. During early prototype road tests, feedback from reviewers was horrible.
Citing a huge lack of feedback and a lack of consistency in the assists, led to the car having horrible dynamics.This eventually sealed the fate of the type 105, Bugatti laid dormant until the 110 EB.
I was sorting through the data on the AGCRMR site and took a look at the viewers for today.
It was very cool to see that car lovers from all over the world take time out of their busy day to stop by my blog and read some of the posts. So here’s a SHOUT OUT all the international car junkies that stopped by today.
So a HUGE “THANKS” to registered viewers:
Thanks/Merci – Canada!!
Graças – Portugal!!
Tack – Sweden!!
Merci – France!!
Gracias – Brazil!!
Thanks – England!!
Dzięki – Poland!!
Dank – Germany (where my son some born)!!!
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Another week gone and March Madness in upon us. Nope you are going to find any brackets here, just your Auto Factoids for the week.
Big day on the 17th of March. That’s when Geneva attendees were treated to the first of what would become world iconic car. The Porsche debuted back in 1949. Volkswagen or not it is still going strong.
1949 Publicity shot
Although Porsche was in production a few year before this debut. Most of the first Porsche’s contained Volkswagen parts, as the Beetle was the first car the Porsche built.
A few years before the Porsche debut (about 115 – 1834) Gottlieb Daimler was born in Germany on the 17th of March.
Two more March birthdays show up on a search. Those are for Rudolf Diesel in Paris in 1858 and Andy Granatelli in Dallas, TX in 1923, whom just passed way on Dec 29, 2013.
Head in to the store for my second time today (happens when you don’t follow the list as close as you as should) and I spotted this iconic car, the one, the only Firebird Trans Am.
I’m not sure why I took the pics like this – maybe balancing the bag of groceries and my Android and an impact.
Clearly this car is a driver and that is perfect in my book. Love the original honeycomb wheels and that hood scoop!!! That 4.9 on the scoop indicates there might be a turbo under that bird sticker!!!!
Should look something like this:
4.9L T/A Pontiac V8
The choices were the 4.9L T/A Pontiac V8, the Chevrolet 5.0L V8 and 1981 the highly desirable 4.9L Turbocharged Pontiac V8.
The Pontiac Firebird Trans Am featured in the first “Smokey and the Bandit” movie was a 1977 model. An Arena article on Friday about car movies incorrectly said the car was a 1976 model. In the movie, it was intended to be a 1977, although car buffs …
The six-part web series has Stewart channeling his inner Burt Reynolds complete with an enormous mustache that would make any man jealous. He’s also got the iconic Pontiac Firebird Trans Am to play with and the hat to make the transformation complete.
The Oldsmobile Motor Works is destroyed by fire 3/9/1901. Started by a careless work, all but one of the curved dash prototypes were lost.
Fire started by a worker.
One day later and 26 years (1927) Sir Henry Seagrave sets a speed record over 200 mile per hour.
Built by the Sunbeam car company of Wolverhampton that was powered by two aircraft engines.
March 12th has a lot of birthdays:
– Johnny Rutherford in Coffeyville, Kansas – 1938
One of nine drivers to win the prestigious Indianapolis 500 mile race at least three times
– Giovanni Agnelli – 1921
Not to be confused with his namesake grandfather the founder of Fiat. But Giovanni the grandson was responsible for massive expanding Fiat to Russia and South American.
Giovanni Agnelli
– Clement Studebaker – 1831
A wagon and carriage manufacturer. With his brother Henry, he co-founded the H & C Studebaker Company, precursor of the Studebaker Corporation, which built Pennsylvania-German Conestoga wagons[1] and carriages during his lifetime, and automobiles after his death.
Clement Studebaker
On March 13 in 1948 Honda Motors was formed.
March 13, 1974 the Arab oil embargo ended.
March 15, 1960 Mercury debts the Comet.
Dubbed as Fords first compact car, it came in 2 or 4 door configuration as well as station wagon.
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