Grand Sport #1

[firstgenaddict]

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[sYc]

Now you are talking. One of my top 2-3 cars of all time. I remember seeing one back in the mid '70s. Awesome

[firstgenaddict]

Wish I would have been at Ameilia Island a couple of years back... 5 Grand Sports in one place...AWESOME.

[olredalert]

-------Funny story, We restored GS1 the first time at Classic Motors back in about 1978 or so. At that time the only guy who even showed a smattering of interest in the car at the price my boss thought it was worth wanted the car red! So it was painted Ferrari red with red leather interior, and was sent off to Wisconsin. I think we took about 15 cars and some cash in trade. NO.1 has since been restored to a much higher degree of originality than our 1st attempt, but our first attempt was absolutely beautiful. Its in that form that the car appeared in Corvette News after they saw it at Bloominton Gold that year. Cant remember who has it now but it is certainly the worlds most valuable Corvette. The 200mph speedo was missing and thru a really weird bunch of circumstances I fell into the original speedo that came on the car. It had been sitting on the mantle of one of the former owners as a rememberance of the car............Bill S

[sYc]

Yep, RED, that is the car. Saw it at Blommington, maybe '79, as I remember everyone was trying to unload '78 Pacecars. No market for them, as GM built too many of them and the interest rate had shot up quite a bit. A buyer's market for all Vettes that year.

On a side note, as we all came out of Red Lobster Saturday evening, a friend of ours was shocked to see his '63 split window fuelie car had been stolen from the parking lot. No insurance, and never found.

[hvychev]

Man Bill, you sure have done a lot in this hobby!

[Xplantdad]

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Man Bill, you sure have done a lot in this hobby!

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I second that...Hey Bill, why don't you share some more of your cool stories with us?

[TimG]

Bill, I believe that the car had just come from Richard Siever of Austin, TX in 1979. Richard was a strange fellow that owned, raced and damaged the car in the early or mid 70's. Branches were growing around the car as it sat in dilapidated condition in his front yard, local Corvette guys would come look at it and sit in it. I know a number of folks that looked at that car only knowing it was some type of factory race car. Richard got a bit strange later on and would sit in a tree with a gun guarding GS #1 and a '63 fuelie coupe. I think he sold it to the Janesville collector or the person that sold it to him. You may be able to shed some light on exactly who bought the car from Richard. I still hear stories about GS #1 on occasion. I saw the car at Bloomington in '82 and have the Hemmings add offering it and many rare cars for sale in July of '82.

[firstgenaddict]

In a mid to late 60's Hot Rod there was an ad in the back for 2 Grand Sports at $5500 each. My dad's Hot Rod Mags are in the Basement, I'll have to look the next time I am over there.