69 Motion Phase III GT Vette, found & restored - Page 4

**livettes** · #31 12-16-2003, 02:56 AM

The owner is a very nice man named Jim Tarkington, He owns a group of new car dealerships in Searcy Arkansas,Trumann Baker Chevrolet,Dodge ect. I saw this car several years ago when he first brought it in to his shop(very rough) and then again not long after the restoration was completed (very nice).I will try to get with Jim & take some photos to post in the next week or so. He lives about 90 min. south of me.

RONNIE · #32 12-16-2003, 11:39 PM

Cool I'd love to see it now that it's finished. One of jims guys (Ithink his name is Heuy or somthing like that) was supposed to email mee some pics when they got it all together but i never heard from them. Guess no news is good news. he must have liked it. Tell Jim to get on this message board. I'd love to here how it all went.
Pics would be great!!!!!

**livettes** · #33 12-21-2003, 02:25 AM

I have taken several photo's of Jim Tarkingtons 69 PhaseIII GT. However the file for each indivdual photo is too large to attach. I will have to get some help & try to post them at a later date.
Ronnie, if you did the body work on this car you did a great job.
Jamie

JoeC · #34 12-21-2003, 10:37 AM

Jamie,
Email the pictures to me and I can post them.

55chevy · #35 12-21-2003, 05:20 PM

Hi Jamie. We met at SCR6. I looked at your Vette right before you left out to head home Sunday. Have you gotten started on the restoration yet? Send me some pics of you have any. I can post those Phase III pics for you if you want to send me those too. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif[/img]

RONNIE · #36 12-22-2003, 12:45 AM

Thanks. Jamie I'd love to see them!! Did you go there and take pics? Where is the car? In the showroom? Thats what Jim said he was going to do with it.

**livettes** · #37 12-24-2003, 02:06 AM

Ed
Thanks for your interest. I pulled the body off the frame the day after I got home from the reunion. The restoration is going pretty well. I have been working nearly every night & weekend on the car. I have the frame & suspension pieces dissembled, sanblasted & powder coated. I have reworked the flares & rear body panel& have all the body work done to the rear section of the car & in primer I have all the glass work roughed in on the front cap. I have not stopped itching since the first week of September.
I have taken a number of photo's & will try to send some to you. Gary (the brush) also ask me to send some to him & keep him updated on the progress.

**livettes** · #38 12-24-2003, 02:24 AM

Ronnie
The car is in his airplane hangar right now. I know Jim did display the car in his showroom for some time but it has been in the hangar both times I have looked at it.
Jamie

RONNIE · #39 12-24-2003, 02:35 AM

Jamie thats great! Did you get those pics up yet? What kind of vette do you have and do you have any pics of it online??

**livettes** · #40 12-24-2003, 03:17 AM

I am restoring a 68 big block coupe that has all the Phase III stuff on it. Body panels, valve covers, intake, carb, & breather ect. I have traced the car back to the original owner who said he had ordered all of the pieces from Motion & had them installed by a local shop in Philladelphia in early 1973. Gary (the local brush) looked at the car at SCR6 and confirmed what the original owner had told me, that everything was Motion but the work was not done in their shop. As Ed and a few others can attest the car was pretty rough when I got it. Only 36,000 actual miles 1/4 mile at a time. Hope to have complete for SCR7. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/

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