1965 Chevelle L79

[leach]

Kim Howie just called me said that Jerry Doolittle was not his cousin it was first owners brother my mistake. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/hmmm.gif[/img]

[scuncio]

That is some nice paint for being 45 years (!) old.

[WILMASBOYL78]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: leach</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Kim Howie just called me said that Jerry Doolittle was not his cousin it was first owners brother my mistake. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/hmmm.gif[/img] </div></div>

Makes sense...most of his relatives have disowned him anyway [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[leach]

Kim is trying to get the picture from 1969 of the show after guy had it painted that Black Pearl color and picture of both brothers from the early days standing by open hood of the car. Yes it is the paint from back then it is a 10 foot car but you get close you can see imperfections but it sure looks great for a car painted that long ago. Jason spent a lot of time buffing to get the dirt out of the paint from sitting all those years in that garage but at least it survived as a great car that will turn heads at car shows.

[leach]

Kim Howie just sent me picture Jerry Doolittle brother 1st owner and the last owner of 32 1/2 years at age 17 when his brother street raced the car
This picture was before his brother died in the hunting accident in 1965

[leach]

When Kim picked car up from Jerry he snapped picture of that one above Jerry would not give it up but he still had original dual snorkel way you see it in the picture when they raced it with snorkels knocked off and holes cut in base to let air in better only extra hole was when I ordered new reproduction snorkel Jason took the one tube off this original to fix it correct compared to way they making repro ones.


Pretty dumb thing to do thinking they were helping get air to the carb [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/hmmm.gif[/img]

[SuperNovaSS]

Cool vintage photo. Why is that dumb Barry? It very well could be but I have had a bunch of vintage air cleaners with similar mods. Usually done with a hole saw though.

Jason

[leach]

Here is 1973 title from Jerry Doolittle where Kim bought car in 2006 and 1969 pictures where Steve Romsey 2nd owner took 2nd place in car show at Veterans show after Wayne Larson painted it Black Pearl lacquer paint that year which car still has that paint on the car since then(10 foot car)

[WILMASBOYL78]

looks like it had some 5 spoke wheels back in the day...cool stuff.

wilma

[PxTx]

Barry, what were the mag wheels on it back then? You are lucky to have some old pics!