only two made

Dwight Southerland · 10-13-2013, 09:33 PM

My first class racing was done in the summer of 1968 with a '57 Chev 150 business coupe and a 283 two bbl. I raced about six times that summer at a little dragstrip south of Ft. Smith, AR. Three of those times a soldier from nearby Ft. Chaffee showed up with a maroon '67 Corvette 435hp-427 roadster with some JC Penny slicks mounted on white steel wheels stuffed into the compartment behind the seats. He would put the slicks on and run mid - low 12s all day through the side pipes. During the same period of time, a friend of mine in Little Rock had made friend with another soldier stationed at the Air Force base at Jacksonville, AR who also had a black 435hp-427 roadster and even got to drive the car a couple of times. I rode in that car twice. X-Tech, if you say only twenty were made, then I have personally been around two of the twenty! I did not know the cars were that rare.

10-13-2013, 09:33 PM	#14
Dwight Southerland VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Arkansas - In the middle of everything. Posts: 2,001 Likes: 64 Liked 780 Times in 194 Posts	Re: only two made My first class racing was done in the summer of 1968 with a '57 Chev 150 business coupe and a 283 two bbl. I raced about six times that summer at a little dragstrip south of Ft. Smith, AR. Three of those times a soldier from nearby Ft. Chaffee showed up with a maroon '67 Corvette 435hp-427 roadster with some JC Penny slicks mounted on white steel wheels stuffed into the compartment behind the seats. He would put the slicks on and run mid - low 12s all day through the side pipes. During the same period of time, a friend of mine in Little Rock had made friend with another soldier stationed at the Air Force base at Jacksonville, AR who also had a black 435hp-427 roadster and even got to drive the car a couple of times. I rode in that car twice. X-Tech, if you say only twenty were made, then I have personally been around two of the twenty! I did not know the cars were that rare.