Pizza Man Corvette at auction

[Paul Merolla]

I was at a buddy's place Friday evening, and there was a Mecum auction from St. Charles, IL on....much to my surprise, there was the Pizza Man 'vette! They were pimping it as the grand finale on Sat. or Sun. so I didn't get to see it go across the stage, but apparently it went to $120k and didn't sell.
Jim S., were you there?
Here's the link:
http://www.mecum.com/auctions/lot_de...=FP0912-137274

And my picture of the TV:

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by Paul Merolla

I was at a buddy's place Friday evening, and there was a Mecum auction from St. Charles, IL on....much to my surprise, there was the Pizza Man 'vette! They were pimping it as the grand finale on Sat. or Sun. so I didn't get to see it go across the stage, but apparently it went to $120k and didn't sell.
Jim S., were you there?
Here's the link:
http://www.mecum.com/auctions/lot_de...=FP0912-137274

And my picture of the TV:

I remember seeing that car run a lot. Seems like his name was Earl? Can't come up with his last name. :-( I'm old. Good running little car.

[gsa612]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

I remember seeing that car run a lot. Seems like his name was Earl? Can't come up with his last name. :-( I'm old. Good running little car.

The guys name is Earl Britts fr. Sioux Falls SD. Remember the car from Marion SD. There's a thread under the nostalgia section on the car. gsa612

[Jim Hanig]

I remmber Earls corvette very well ,He raced at T V Souix City and many other place,s won a lot of modified races back in the day. Jim Hanig

[mcink]

Earl Britt was the builder/owner
Owned Earl's Pizza in Sioux Falls, SD

[james schaechter]

Originally Posted by Paul Merolla

I was at a buddy's place Friday evening, and there was a Mecum auction from St. Charles, IL on....much to my surprise, there was the Pizza Man 'vette! They were pimping it as the grand finale on Sat. or Sun. so I didn't get to see it go across the stage, but apparently it went to $120k and didn't sell.
Jim S., were you there?
Here's the link:
http://www.mecum.com/auctions/lot_de...=FP0912-137274

And my picture of the TV:

I live about 10 minutes from there, but no. That is a cool car though!

[BLAZER]

Originally Posted by Jim Hanig

I remmber Earls corvette very well ,He raced at T V Souix City and many other place,s won a lot of modified races back in the day. Jim Hanig

Are you the guy that raced a 1948 4 door hudson? I believe you owned a bee farm and had some dakota buffalo roaming the range?

[JRyan]

Blazer,

Jim done good with the bees and the buffalo 'til them damn rustlers came along. It was relatively easy to brand the buffalo, but he never got the hang of brandin' the bees so he moved to Texas. He'd like to move back to SoDak, but his wife bees wantin' to stay where its warm.

Didn't Earl get his supply of 292's from the buses that used to run in Sioux Falls? Lots of years and lots of memories of watching that car run.

Jerry

[Eddie Rezac]

I knew Earl back then, he gave me a lot of pointers about running at national events. I believe that he ran the GMC 270 truck engine, bored to 4 ", which made 301 ci. That engine came in trucks, and buses with the 4 speed, GM hydro-matic. That is the trans, that was developed into the famous B&M stick, hydro, and was used by a lot of famous gassers, back in the day.
Eddie Rezac

[Ed Wright]

Eddie, I figured you would remember this car, being from your part of the country.