Here's the black '60, next to a silver '59, silver '58, black '57 and white '56. There's a lot more solid axles here than in the museum itself. If I remember right, the museum has a '53, three '58s, and a 62. Pretty pathetic C1 representation in there. I've even got spare parts the museum could use. They have a passenger car 265 on display, and a T10, but everything else is motors and transmissions built in the last 15 years. This might be a nice way for me to get rid of my cast iron powerglide and 283 core - donate it to the museum.

Here's a black '62 from the evolution display. Black seemed to be a popular color on this display for late '50s, early '60s cars.

Here's a bunch of solid axles in the evolution display smiling for the camera. Love them chrome teeth in the grills.

Sharks and Midyears were well represented in the evolution display, along with C4s and C5s. Allen - this 69 had a blue hood. J

Not sure if this was the '53 or '54, but here's a Blue Flame Six, with the triple carburators.

Here's the fuely motor from the '55.

Another shot from the evolution display, a NCRS top flight '61. I helped the owner back in to this space, and he was struggling with the manual steering of the car. I was leaving later in the day, and showed him how I could turn lock to lock with one finger. He and his wife didn't even notice that my hubcaps weren't stock. Victory for MuttVette. Beautiful Black Lacquer paint on this one.

Here's the '60 from the evolution display. I like the '61 tail better.

Here's my next car - a '63 roadster. There was a red four speed car for sale for $23k, with an incorrect hood and non-original motor, but it would have made a good starting point for another Newman conversion.

MuttVette and the C12. My son couldn't believe I could get a picture next to a C12.

MuttVette in front of the Museum. Amazingly, all four taillights are working.

Another shot of MuttVette in front of the Museum and the Callaway C12.

Another pretty wild Shark showcar.

Here's a pretty trick '57, the only other Solid Axle I found running C4 suspension and powertrain. This was a conversion done by the owner, standing on the left side of the picture. The car has been appraised at $75K, and the owner has been offered over $100K for the car. He formed his own frame rails out of flat stock with his plasma cutter. Looking at the car, it's clear that Paul Newman's conversion saves us lots of effort and is much cleaner than this job. Nice car, but some things were a bit too custom. Here's a page with lots more pictures of the car.

He ran out at the Beech Bend Raceway Park drag strip today, running mid 13's at 103. His motor is bone stock, other than smog delete.

Speaking of selling cars, I had a gentleman come up to me while we were talking to the owner of the '57, asking if I want to sell MuttVette. My automatic response was "Hell, No!" He then introduces himself as Tommy Morrison. Tommy, as some of you know holds the current 24 hour speed record, averaging over 175 mph in a ZR1, breaking the previous record that was just shy of 50 years old. I then told Tommy I was a Team ZR-1 member, and showed him a picture of the car he just sold to John Rovner at the Pony Express. Pretty funny, a guy like Tommy Morrison wanting MuttVette. I should have asked what he wanted to pay for it.

Here's a picture from the article in the Sept 4^th Tennessean on the caravan from Nashville to Bowling Green.

Here's the article from the same paper.

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