Pizza Delivery: #966

[LGAFF]

I just left a message for the original owner, James Farrell, I guess we will see if Multi-millionaire's deal with common folk. I actually lived in an apartment complex back in 1995 owned by Forbes lister Clint Atkins......net worth of $450M and corvette fanatic. In fact his business partner bought he and another partner 95 Yellow ZR-1s for their brithday, I believe they were some of the last Zs produced.

Clint was very down to earth, when I bought my first vette, a 73, he came over and checked it out when he saw it in the parking lot, nice guy. We will see if Mr. Farrell returns the call, I want to see what the history is on the engine. He is a busy guy, retired but still on the board at 3M, UA, Abbot labs, and about 10 other companies....

[tf95ZR1]

[QUOTE=LGAFF;53858] Any ideas if this means anything or how I can find out if the engine was rebuilt?[QUOTE]

If you know someone who works at a GM Service Center, have them pull up the car's history by VIN. It will report any and all work done on the car by a dealer. Did that on mine and found out that at about 25,000 miles the entire engine was replaced!

[LGAFF]

I tried no more records, and I entire have a service order for a rebuild, but no charges on it.

[LGAFF]

Just got a call form the original owner, he said the engine was rebuilt by chevrolet for free, there was no reason appears it may have been done for training purposes. He also told me the car was speed certified by the Il State Police on I-88 for 160mph. That ticket cost him $1500 and a good attorney to get it reduced to 75MPH in a 65MPH. I asked him if they cuffed him for that, and he said no that they were actually more interested in checking out the car....they took his lic and sent him home.

He mentioned that the car was hard to get and he paid more thn sticker for it.

Nice guy, said he used to take the car or his GN to Great Lakes for fun.

Hans and Don, you will be glad to know he called me from his S65 AMG

[VetteMed]

Cool info, thanks for sharing, Lee

[bdw18_123]

Originally Posted by LGAFF

Just got this e-mail from prior owner...car apparently went from original owner to son-in-law to the previous owner to me............prior owner sent me this e-mail when I asked him if he knew prior owner was a well-to-do CEO..

"Yes, Lee, I knew he was well heeled. That’s why he didn’t hesitate to do a complete ‘update’ of the engine, and paint the car. By the way, did I tell you he got a $600 speeding ticket doing 155mph in the car?"

If you got caught doing 155mph these days, not only would the fine be much higher, but you probably would get thrown in jail and your license suspended!

The pizza box that came with my '90 also had an engraved silver plate with the original owner's name and VIN of the car. I bought my Z from the original owner. He was a manager of an auto sales place, and I guess my white '90 Z had been sitting in the dealership for awhile. They were getting ready to switch the the "new" '91 models and he got it for $51k (according to the original invoice, which I have) after some discounts. I thought that the engraved name-plate was something he had made, but I guess it was something you got when the car was new from the dealer?

Oh, and what the heck is a "protecto-plate"?

[tomtom72]

Back in the old days most vars came with what looked like a credit card in the owners portfolio. It was used for warranty claims.

My 72 LT-1's P-Plate looked like a credit card with a metal tag on it with the car's VIN on it. My 80's & early 90's T-birds had the same thing, except without the metal tag, for the extended factory warr's.

The chevy dealer used to run the P-plate thru what looked like the old manual type credit card machines using the service ticket as the paper and your name & car's info would come up in the "customer" box on the service invoice.

Now I know I'm old when I can remember stuff like that!

[flyin ryan]

Cool stuff Lee . FWIW...I've got a few (3) 'Pizza boxes', two of them have the engraved VIN plate & one does not. The one that is missing doesn't look like there ever was one either, Ssooo don't know.

[phrogs]

You can't blam it on age I know about POPs and Im a young pup!

My 68 corvette has the second owners POP he bought it in 1969.

Originally Posted by tomtom72

Back in the old days most vars came with what looked like a credit card in the owners portfolio. It was used for warranty claims.

My 72 LT-1's P-Plate looked like a credit card with a metal tag on it with the car's VIN on it. My 80's & early 90's T-birds had the same thing, except without the metal tag, for the extended factory warr's.

The chevy dealer used to run the P-plate thru what looked like the old manual type credit card machines using the service ticket as the paper and your name & car's info would come up in the "customer" box on the service invoice.

Now I know I'm old when I can remember stuff like that!

[John Boothby]

Anyone happen to have the pizza box etc for 1990 #148? Or would anyone know who the original owner was? Sold new by Voss Chevrolet, Centerville, Ohio. I have the history from about 1995 to present. I do have a complete pizza box that has no name or vin.