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.
Back in 1863 Mr. Henry Royce was born in Alwalton, England on March 27th.
Mr. Royce
The Royce 10
The Royce 10 was a 10 horse powered car. It was produced at the Trafford Park, Manchester plant in 1904 and sold fro 395 British pounds. You could a variety of ‘power plants’ for this first offering. Those included 15, 20 and 30 hp models. (They were named the Royce 15, Royce 20 and Royce 30.
On March 29, 1980 Audi debuts the first all wheel drive (4 WD) Quattro.
1980 Quattro – Not a bad looking car at that!!!
Thanks for reading.
Tim
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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)!!!
Feel free to post up a note and just say “Hey” or find me on Facebook – Average Guys Car Restoration Mods and Racing (AGCRMR) and send me a few pics of your ride!!!! Doesn’t even have to be your ride (Pls NO JOY RIDING !!!)
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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.
News of a new reality show for aspiring car designers sponsored by Chevrolet got me to thinking – could the next-gen Corvette come out of a reality show?
The new TV series, Motor City Masters, will pit 10 aspiring car designers against one another on truTV testing both their exterior and interior design capabilities.
The 10-episode show, hosted by Brooke Burns, former star of Baywatch and Melrose Place, will be based in Los Angeles with a series finale in Detroit.
Show participants will be judged in areas such as creativity, execution and the forward-thinking in their work. After a series of elimination rounds, the top two designers will face off in front of members of Chevy’s design team.
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