Memories...those days of dragging with open headers, adjusting points or changing the jet sizes in carburetors. I also remember watching my friend climb out of a 1970s Vette and burn the side of his bare leg on the still hot side exhaust pipe.

I actually have photos of a very very similar looking Vette Drag Racing at a couple of Different Tracks we raced at in Nebraska back in the 70's . We raced B/MP Class back when they still had Modified Production Cars as its own Class. We ran a Camaro SS with a 427. The Corvette we saw around that one summer ( I will look up what year) had no name on the side but looked remarkably the same right down to the Cragar Wheels and the deck lid was blue and Stars and the stripe on the snorkel hood was more rectangular shape with equal amounts of red on each side. The guy who was hauling and driving it had like a 60's model Chevy Cab and sleeper cab with a Car Hauler on the back as was very popular back in the late 60's and 70's. He was with his Wife we assumed, every time we saw him and we think he was from Wisconsin or Michigan ? Maybe Like I said it was in the mid 70's. I know the car had 4spd Muncie because he sheared off some cluster teeth in Qualifying and bought a complete new Gear Set from a guy we knew that ran a Chevelle SS 396 4 spd in Super Stock class. Anyway all of us pitted around him helped him R & R the Transmission and because that's what I did for a living at the time (built standard transmissions for a Transmission Shop) I pulled it down, he and his wife cleaned out all the metal shards and I put the complete gear set, and new cluster gear in and out it back together. ( The Gear set, Sliders and mainshaft were all hardened & Face Plated made for Drag Racing ) and it worked flawlessly and was a little quicker than his old set up. We saw him at Bandamiere at Morrison Colorado later that Summer for a big NHRA Race and he was still running the trans I built and had never touched it since we put it back in. That was at Kearney Dragway @Kearney, Nebraska back when it was just an abandoned chunk of Airport Runway with a little tower and a little camper trailer and a Christmas Tree. Oh those were the dying days of Drag Racing. We never saw them again after that one summer. I wonder what ever happened to that Corvette it was a really nice looking and well built Race Car. Who ever built it knew what they were doing.

To make a long story short . Its an old dragcar. Setup early 70s style. the C-MP on the windows stands for C-Modified production. That is the class it was running in . If it was competitive in that class, it would have been turning 9's in the quarter mile. It would have a straight axle rearend, and most of them had high winding smallblocks with 4 speeds.

wow, unbelievable...i remember in the late 70’s at a dealership in Shreveport then named “RoundtreeCadillac&Old’s” they had a 454ci Corvette i don’t know what year but it had the chrome bumper nose. the entire car was painted in a waving American flag w/ super wide tires around it w/ identical Ketstone or Crager 5spoke chrome mags on it. my dad cranked it because then they would leave the keys in the car. he knew everything about that the car had a big ass cam in it and sounded like thunder coming out the side exhaust. alot of chrome under the hood w/ electric fans. the car was beautiful & badazz at the same time. i could’ve been no more than 4or5 but it was one those moments you never forget. thanks for sharing this post

😍 What a car! 60’s and 70’s corvettes are some of the most beautiful cars ever made.

Wow! That is an amazing find. I had a child's one of 3 edition of a candy apple red corvette in the late 1960's. It was given to my Dad by the company. I don't recall why. I was only 3 or 4 years old. But I got to drive it in 9ur extremely large hall of a business building. Other children beat me up so my Dad sold it. It had been an awesome summer though, driving that thing. I find this totally believable be cause companies were not so cheap with their promotional advertising back then. It had been a mini version of what would be coming out the following year. Thank you for bring back a fond memory of all that sadly does no longer exist in my world. I wish I had at least one of the many photos my now late Mom had taken. This? This helps me visualize it again though 🤗😘

So beautiful.From a different era,a snapshot in time!Fabulous.

YES! It has been at Englishtown when I was young. I know that car! The c/mp coup mod. Saw it race.

Holy crap ! I saw this car race at martin 131 dragway in the 70s in martin Michigan ! It's proper name is "four star general", and this car would launch wheels up every time .I would love to own this car and do the show car scene and maybe a few exibition runs only with it .I remember seeing it race against hell on wheels drag military tank replica that particular day .hell somebody out there must have it on old 8 mm film as there were always cameras at these races . It would be cool if someone found this footage and posted it to you tube.

This video left me with more questions than answers.

Love the story intresting documentation makes the car more special thanks for sharing

It's stories like these that we will all be talking about in the future as our grand kids are filling up there spaceships. Right on !! Glad she will be coming out and about again for all to see.

Story of a Shelby Mustang and a Shelby Maverick in N. Va. Manassas area. Father worked as a body man for a local Ford dealership collected them during the gas crunch in the 70's. The Mustang was a Trade in. Needed a rear 1/4 panel. He bought it , got the 1/4 into prime and sat on it. Drove it once in a while around the neighborhood just to keep thinks working. When he past away, the family had to redo the home owners Insurance. Needed to up the Insurance on the garage becouse of the Shelby. They showed him the car, he gave an estimated value of the mustang and what they should insure the Garage for. They were taken back at what the Shelby was worth. The Insurance guy explained how Rare and Expensive Shelby's were. Hearing that they asked about another car covered up in the Garage. It was a Shelby Maverick from Mexico. The Insurance guy told them to double the Value of the Shelby. Never seen them, but talked to plenty locals that used to see the guy drive it around the neighborhood. Now his Son does from what I understand.

My best friend just died from cancer in January, and there is a ready-to-restore 1970 Boss 302 in the garage. It was his first car that he got in high school, and he still had it when he passed at 55. How many people still have THEIR first car?

Did the final details ever emerge regarding what this car started as? Someone said the trim tag looked like a '69. That, together with the ZL-1 engine is intriguing. Escaped ZL-1 test mule? Or, if the car is truly a '71, I believe those heads were also used on '71 LS-6 Corvettes... Endless possibilities for a part swapping racer. A thorough investigation should reveal much. If VIN tag is gone, partial VIN should be on frame.

"I'll always be riding....with private Malone" 🤣

My last year of high school and I was going to the prom. I'd just washed my F-150 and was about ready to leave when my cousin showed up in his black 1964 corvette stingray. He tossed me the keys and said "Have a good time". And I/we did.

Rumor has it that P Virg is still waiting for Barrett Jackson or Mecum to give him a call. 10K car and a Million dollar story!!! 😂🤣😂

I was hoping to see a restoration 😔

thank you for sharing the video and story.

That Vette was a beast car in it's time. Still is..

ha ha love those old 70s Cragar mags. I had a set of those at one time in the 80s.

Great video!

I had a friend who left me a ford pinto - and his glass eye- he’s bad-ass

I take it back 68 and 69 corvettes had a push button outside door handle and no stingrays

Wish you would have given more info of what was under the hood. Great vlog & I bet it was a beast back in its day 😎

I use to watch this car race at Tompkinsville Kentucky and I think it raced at beach bend at Bowling Green Kentucky . I don't thank the car is famous the guy just said things that were not true, the car was not a rag top as he said. It was a good looking car but not fast enough to win the the race at a very small track. But it was something see a corvette pulling a corvette. If you look the photo of the car pulling the wheels in the lower right hand of the sign it has Kentucky on it. If I remember right the car was out of Louisville Ky. This was the early 70's . The two men look like they were in their 50's. The car ran two or three years around here . The car had to have more than 24 miles as he said in video.

24 miles. Thats a quarter mile at a time. Lol. Really cool find and history.

This is a beautiful piece of history and I hope he restores it to it's full and original state . 👍

I don't remember seeing what looks to me like dominator holleys that long ago, they fresh looking. 6.60s ,had to have raced it on an 1/8th mile track. I don't believe a factory vette rear suspension would stand up like car in pics, looks like an old ladder bar set up to me. I like it but, some stuff ain't adding up to me , good story with hidden details I'm sure, good find to play with. Big block heads in box,who knows the combos the car has seen

Everybody has a TREASURE Car that they are GOING to RESTORE. Few get the task completed.

The Corvette was an advertisement/show piece, the same as the 429 BOSS cars were. While it's tow vehicle was a standard off the show room Corvette, the racing car was a General Motors one off vehicle. Unlike the BOSS 429's, only one "General"was ever built.

The car trailer really dates this car, it has dexter style wheels , man that's old . The car is totally cool on every level , great find

What a very nice video , not the sort of video i would watch but i really did enjoy this

I'm not a Chevy fan at all... but God do I love a great story. And I love cars so much that who gives a shit what company it is... I just love the passion, good luck buddy

Regardless, that's a history ride! Let it ride free! Hope to here more and see it drive.. Bad Ass Corvettes should never die, just have another chapter to tell..

Nothing beats a GM w round tail lights and split bumpers! My 1st hot rod I bought for 3500 was a 71 z28 lt one. It had 25000 miles and sold ten years later to Manny Fitzgerald for 19.5k I had 85000 miles on it. He repainted orig blue (electric) and is selling it for 40k obo. Nothing beats a heavy chevy

That's an incredible find what a car

I had a friend who said he and a friend had stolen an old corvette that was new back in the 60s when they took it and they had it stashed but I never knew where. They didnt know what they would do with it. They are both dead now and who knows whatever happened to it or where they stole it from. All I know is they were both from NW Iowa.

I had a great friend that died from cancer and left me his 1995 extended cab long bed chevy truck in his will. It is real a real ruff truck but he wanted me to have it. So I will never part with it. It needs a lot of work still but it dose run and drive good as long as it don't get to hot.

Similar situation to thats happening to my family my grandfather had a 68 Camaro SS that was plum purple and said shaky puddin on it, it was very well known where I live and my grandfather had sold it just before my uncle was born almost 50 years later that car has now been found and a friend of my mom from high school is trying to restore it back to the original that my grandfather had it as

GET TO THE POINT ALREADY!!!!

The manly urge to want to restore the car yourself just because you can and not because your an enthusiast of the car and then instead not take it to a museum even tho it deserves to be preserved in a museum as a piece of history for history nuts to enjoy

I have come to the conclusion that there are more cars in people's barns than on the road. If I hear one more person say how rare a vehicle is I'll scream.

Cool story to hear about. Thanks

Much respect to Vette owners..

Doesn't look like it needs 'restoring'. A good wash/ pressure wash, polish and interior clean + new battery and a service with new tyres /brakes and it'll likely be fine..

They should keep both corvettes together😭

This car needs to go to the Freedom Factory

What a sweet find!

If they were good enough friends that he could take the corvette when he died then why does he know absolutely nothing about it

Great work! Very informative! So satisfied now!

A 40 plus year old car with a paint code that doesn't match the present paint color - who would have ever thought? Wrong color is not exactly a "red flag" moment. My last Corvette was black when I bought it and had previously been painted 5 different colors - it was less than 15 years old. The paint job was crappy and flaking off when I got it, making it easy to tell that each new color had been painted over the last. As a coincidence to this video, the Corvette I had before the black one came new in Safari Yellow and was Red when I bought it. A later owner restored it to it's original color. The red was much prettier. Now if we were talking about Daytona Yellow, my opinion would be different.

Very interesting story. Experts can be wrong. But there are cars that have been faked because of high prices. I was told of a local Corvette owner who claimed his 67 small block came from the factory with a big block stinger hood. He was the original owner. He said that it was delivered from the dealer with the stinger hood. Many said it must have been the dealer who installed the hood. He refuted that claim. Then some said it must have been installed at the factory when they ran out of small block hoods. An ex GM St. Louis plant supervisor said it was possible but there would be no records to prove that it happened. Short of an ex employee saying this is was happened it could not be proved. It really divided many Corvette people over this. In the end it's an owner saying this is factory and how the car came.

I can't help but notice that the top of the tunnel ram is on backwards. With the front of the motor tilted up, as most are, the top is angled to make the carbs level not lean back. Very strange...

Wish I had a Vette. Sporty with huge balls!

Keystone wheels look killer

Nice video Thank you 😊

Save yourself some time....he gives NO information about the motor or anything important for that matter....horrible

4:34 Vette pulling a Vette now I've seen everything pretty awesome car drag racing & low miles.

I shared this video with my grandma. She just laughed and told me to pass the bong.

He took it and the LT1 to the Street Rod or Hot ROd National show in the last year or two...

Great story. Long live the Corvette!

Dude the 69 corvette are fire that model my dream car is a 1969 Chevy corvette stingray split window

After my buddy passed, i found a 78 Chevette in the garage.

This music gives me serious metroid game boy vibes! :)

Whatever happened to the matching tow Corvette? It would be cool to reunite them.

I wanna know what happened to the hood clearly in the picture when is was at the track if was the opposite of when it was stored

wow, love that car!!!

Truly the find of a lifetime.

Oh my God oh my God I grew up loving Corvettes since I was a kid

I saw the model set ,thought it was a deal 2 vetts and a trailor

Mr. Rick Hendricks has a large selection of corvettes he could probably do the job Has a lot of pull with GM I know he would keep the cars together.

At first I thought it said When man locked deceased friend in garage I was so shocked

Wjj should made a series video of this category

First thing I thought was thanks for the history of the corvette and that it's a much loved American icon, can't believe I went 59 years with out knowing that

There are 100's of these classic cars converted to drag racing cars passed around to different owners you can find them for sale all the time they are not worth much because of the modifications been done to them only place you can drive them is on a drag strip. When a new owner buys one only really paying for the performance parts at most they race the car for a few years and grow bored of the hobby sell the car to a new owner. If you go to any drag strip test and tunes or maybe drag racing events see lots of these all kinds of cars. Lot of chargers, novas, corvettes, 60s pickup trucks, Originally someone bought the car off a lot and just made it into a drag race car it's done today with modern cars but not as much as before. Maybe there were teams that raced in national events NHRA had stock classes which had to have almost stock looking car.

i would keep that paint style looks so cool some guys have all the luck lol

The guy's name was "P vert" lmao!

On the GM papers it says the car was made in Detroit, Mi and I live in Michigan and I have seen this car in multiple different barns all across Michigan, I have been trying to track down the owner and give him or her a price but every time I go to the barn we’re the car was it’s gone and I spend another two weeks looking for if

Nice like to find the model from that be a great part of my collection

Nice score

If your so called friend died and never told you about his race car /project car trust me . . he never tought of you as a real friend.

It looks like evel knievel's corvette

Corvettes are made to be maintained and enjoyed....clean er up and take er for a spin.

Bad ass hood scoop

Why is the bonnet scoop different in the original photos to the one found in the garage

i hope the 2 cars can stay together somehow

Plot twist, its really the "General" Lee

love those Keystone Classics

did you guys take that intro tune from a rush song?

Take it to the National Corvette Museum!

Is there any documentation to prove he was given or bought the car in question?

I seriously doubt a factory built race car would have rubber gas lines connected with standard screw clamps.

I've been Hot. Rod magazine reader okay a picture observer for along time and that car does look familiar but I could be wrong ,I'm a dodge Challenger person but I've alway thought of owning a vette because the look more like a true sport car low to the ground...

I had a 1971 Corvette. 454 Auto Air Power Windows. 1981 until 1988. Got married.

Threat level what? Midnight!

IF I HAD A CORVETTE WITH 20 SOME MILES ON IT , THE LAST THING I'D BE THINKING OF IS REBUILDING IT!

you no I'm 60 & I remember seeing this vet race ..quarter mile the GENERAL ?? I love in pgh pa..P.I.D.race way aka

Amazing automotive engineering.....