Aug 15th, Bonhams will auction some cars at the Quail, from Vic Edelbrock's cool collection... and damn, there is not a better time to snap up the Smokey Yunick/Don Yenko Camaro that's Edelbrock has owned for 32 years

The Z06 Bondurant split window 63 is also coming up for grabs, and so are the Brizio Deuce, and the 32 Hi Boy

https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/bonhamscars-offering-up-impressive-vic-edelbrock-jr-collection

one Bring a Trailer user has spent $5.26M on 26 different split window 63 Vettes, since 2021, and has been the top bidder on 92 cars

Probably selling them outside the USA.

https://www.hagerty.com/media/market-trends/hagerty-insider/sotw-1963-split-window-corvette/

odd way to park at the gas pump

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/images-of-vintage-gas-stations-pre-65.1033288/page-34#post-13441334

Dan Blocker, and what I didn't know

’63 split-window Corvette lookin’ like a waggish hepcat. Paul Newman also drove Blocker’s ‘Vette on the track for a few years

He went to the Texas Military Institute, and in 1946 started his undergraduate graduating in 1950 with a degree in English

He fell in love with acting when he was recruited by a girlfriend to play a role in campus production of Arsenic and Old Lace as they needed a strong man to lift the bodies that the spinster aunts had dispatched up from the cellar. (I just posted about the taxis in that movie a week or so ago)

He appeared on Broadway in the 1950-51 production of King Lear. The draft soon ended his apprenticeship, and he served in the Army in the Korean War, making sergeant.

Even after being cast in “Bonanza”, he intended to complete his PhD, but the great success of the series made that impossible, due to the workload of 30+ episodes per year necessitating a 7AM-9PM work schedule five days a week.

Salary, royalties from Bonanza-related merchandise, and business ventures, and an eventual $1-million payout from NBC to buy out the residual rights of each of the three remaining stars made them all rich.

Dan Blocker started the Bonanza Steak House chain in 1963, he died at age 43 in 1972

https://selvedgeyard.com/2022/09/14/dan-blocker-was-no-square-man-there-was-a-lot-more-to-live-for-than-bonanza/#more-44665

small town newspaper ad gets a 63 split window out of storage, and back on the road after 44 years of hibernation/neglect

As Todd Evans explained, "I was browsing a little-known local newspaper that serves the High Desert areas of California and the Lake Havasu, Arizona, area on a Sunday evening when I ran across the ad. 'CAR COLLECTION FOR SALE: 1963 Corvette cpe, 4 sp, SCCA race car w/spares.' That was it, a small text ad with no pictures in a little newspaper. The ad had a few other cars listed, a trailer, and two motorhomes that I didn't even pay attention to. However, it did have a phone number, which, in today's online advertising world, where people refuse to even talk to you unless it is via text or email, was like gold to me.

https://www.motortrend.com/features/1963-chevy-corvette-race-car-barn-find/

if I won the lotto, and bought a gas station /garage /museum, I'd go to Pebble Beach auctions to buy stuff for eye candy to put in that garage. And probably whistle "these are a few of my favorite things"

1935 Miller Ford Indy racer once owned by Andy Granatelli and recently sympathetically restored by Zakira’s Garage

https://www.goodingco.com/lot/1935-miller-ford-indy-car

 

1929 Duesenberg instrument panel

https://www.goodingco.com/lot/c-1929-duesenberg-model-j-instrument-panel

1962 Ferrari 250 GT engine topped with Webers, backed with a 4 spd

https://www.goodingco.com/lot/1962-ferrari-250-gt-engine-and-gearbox/

https://www.goodingco.com/lot/1956-porsche-356-a-european-cabriolet

https://www.goodingco.com/lot/1957-jaguar-xkss-continuation

https://www.goodingco.com/lot/1959-porsche-718-rsk-1a

https://www.goodingco.com/lot/1966-meyers-manx

https://www.goodingco.com/lot/1937-bugatti-type-57sc-atalante-1

https://www.goodingco.com/lot/2004-ferrari-enzo

https://www.goodingco.com/lot/1959-maserati-3500-gt-1

https://www.goodingco.com/lot/1962-volkswagen-type-2-deluxe-microbus-1

https://www.goodingco.com/lot/1960-ferrari-250-gt-series-ii-cabriolet-1

https://www.goodingco.com/lot/1964-sunbeam-tiger-mk1/

https://www.goodingco.com/lot/1967-austin-healey-3000-mk-iii-bj8-1a

https://www.goodingco.com/lot/1963-chevrolet-corvette-327-360-fuel-injected-split-window-coupe

https://www.goodingco.com/lot/1970-iso-grifo-series-i-targa/

a VERY impressive medium size collection (100+ cars) that Tom Cotter got a tour of, with a Talledega, a Daytona, a Super Bird, a 63 split window, and lots more. Thanks Larry W ! Much appreciated!

 

skip the first 2 minutes

they were either fishing for Stingray in Philadelphia, or, they were baiting the hook for Barracuda

https://www.facebook.com/NeatOldStuffAndYesteryear/posts/1486676038205532

great design

https://mr-e-us.tumblr.com/image/636218345444769792

barnfind 63 splitwindow

https://www.corvetteblogger.com/2018/05/27/corvette-delivery-dispatch-national-corvette-seller-mike-furman-may-27th/

they are still out there

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2020/12/rising-from-grave.html

stored since the value went through the roof and they realized they were looking at a retirement program, just sitting there in their garage. This is the first time it's left the garage since 1996

https://prova275.tumblr.com/post/186012684198/found-after-a-27-year-storage-and-another#notes

1955 Alfa Romeo 1900C SS Speciale by Boano makes me wonder if this design influenced the 63 split window Vette which would have been in early design by 1961

https://drive-my.com/en/retro-carss/item/2863-1955-alfa-romeo-1900c-ss-speciale-by-boano.html

they are still out there

http://bigboppa01.tumblr.com/

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2221245881231204&set=gm.2168580603255265&type=3&permPage=1

Said to be parked in a garage for 45 years, and shown to be found buried under junk, but with so much sun damage that it had to have spent the decade before that sitting in direct sunlight, this 63 split window Vette has serious sun damage

it sold in June of 2018. It was found when a buyer went to a garage to buy an MG, and discovered this sharing the garage. About a decade later, the buyer was finally willing to part with it. 97k miles

https://rwautoclassics.com/viewitem/?view=cat&cat=cars&id=6832
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/1963-chevrolet-corvette-parked-in-a-garage-for-45-years-could-be-worth-a-small-fortune

Photography of Michael Furman

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1523156571311851/permalink/1617969671830540/
https://www.wired.com/2014/05/dream-cars-gallery/#slide-1
https://www.facebook.com/Michael-Furman-Photographer-122428634482882/