The elusive Can Am found pics !

[ANDY M]

Remember the Mark Hamill movie "Corvette Summer"?
There was a thread here a while ago with pictures of that car.
Mark Hamill would like to forget the movie.

[budnate]

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Remember the Mark Hamill movie "Corvette Summer"?
There was a thread here a while ago with pictures of that car.
Mark Hamill would like to forget the movie.

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ummm except the van scenes......

[Mr. T]

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Remember the Mark Hamill movie "Corvette Summer"?
There was a thread here a while ago with pictures of that car.

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[olredalert]

-------The New York Worlds Fair car next to Hamills is probably my favorite mid-year Corvette of all time. Do any of you guys remember it from B/J two years ago??? Body modifications were way CQQL!!!!........Bill S

[PeteLeathersac]

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-------The New York Worlds Fair car next to Hamills is probably my favorite mid-year Corvette of all time. Do any of you guys remember it from B/J two years ago??? Body modifications were way CQQL!!!!........Bill S

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You're so right Bill, very cool and I think it's one of the S.O. (Shop Order) cars....fender exit sidepipes and a cool hood-dome kind've like the ones on '67 SS427 Impalas? . There was a few S.O. cars from this period made for the Bunkie Knudsen, Bill Mitchell, Harley Earl types and their wives too? . I think I remember reading one included an early Type 'O' casting 396....in a '64 car? .

Corvette Summer....wasn't that the show where the kid's school shop teacher turned out to be some big time international car thief? . The car still looks as dorky as it did back then!

~ Pete

[ANDY M]

Bunkie, Harly Earl and Bill Mitchells' Corvettes are here in Columbus, part of the Bob McDorman collection.



Check out the side pipes on the Ozzie Olson car.

[71 can am]

The corvette summer was a very radical custom, no way it could have any practical use on a race track, In my opnion a cool supercar, Has to look good & run good, In other words, A Wolf in Sheeps Clothing, Just stick on the #'s & go raceing, Then put it in the competition class in the Concourse same day. Been there , Done thst.

[olredalert]

-------The blue Bill Mitchell Vette behind the Olsen car went thru our dealership (Classic Motors) way back in about 1977/78. Used it to go back and forth to work on occasion. One of our buyers dug it up down around Louisville in the country.

-------Pete,,,The dome was actually an extended fuel injection lid that came thru the hood. Kind of like the first instance of a "shaker" design although there was no attempt at any cool air deal........Bill S

[PeteLeathersac]

VERY cool these cars....kind've executive perks for the GM boys! . Where's a picture of the 'shaker' dome....too cool this thing! . Is the 396 car there somewhere too and is the original lump still w/ it? . What's the build date of the 396 car....and if indeed a '64 it must predate Z16 production so would be nice to see some in depth look at the components? ~ Pete

[olredalert]

Pete,

--------The "dome" car is the Corvette next to the Corvette Summer car. You can see the fuel-unit lid poking thru but not by much. It also had a one-of chrome ring around the edge of the hole.
--------The sidepipes you see wernt functional as the car was built. It had under-the-car exhaust with turndowns at the aft end that you could hardly see. When Mike Yeager(Mid-America Corvettes?) bought the car at B/J he gave it to a very talented friend of mine up here in Detroit for a bit of fluffing and they came to the conclusion that the sidepipes should be active not passive. Werner Meier (my pal) had exact duplicates except functional made. They cost Mike a fortune but, I guess, its only money!!!.........Bill S