Looking for history on this Vette

[whsell3]

Ok, let's see, I will start off by saying I do not own the car, but the guy who does will not be painting it. Geesh! The car has some kind of custom built frame under it, and yes the body is spaced up from it. Kind of looks dumb for a Vette, but I guess thats how they did things back then. The Joe Borrelli guy I talked to told me all of this on the phone before I was able to tell him about it. He said Joe's Paint and Body wasn't around very long. I tried anywho, and no Bob Castro in that area either. That is the problem with some of this stuff it is hard to trace. I did find out that the guy has the VIN numbers for the car, but he said they came in a little tool box or something?

[tom406]

OK, I'll say it: How likely does everybody think it is that this New Jersey Corvette drag car with VIN's removed was either stolen and then turned into a drag car, or fraudulently reported stolen ($$ collected) then taken racing?

If you open that tool box and register the VIN with the DMV, I'll bet we'll get one of those "my Vette was stolen 30 years ago and now I'm getting it back!" write ups.....

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OK, I'll say it: How likely does everybody think it is that this New Jersey Corvette drag car with VIN's removed was either stolen and then turned into a drag car, or fraudulently reported stolen ($$ collected) then taken racing?

If you open that tool box and register the VIN with the DMV, I'll bet we'll get one of those "my Vette was stolen 30 years ago and now I'm getting it back!" write ups.....

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???!!! I think that's highly unlikely.
Even OJ says; "If I did steal that corvette, I would not carry around the VIN tag to ID the car as stolen for thirty years!!"
Let's keep playing the "wow, what a great find" card.

[whsell3]

The guy who owns the car says he has a good title for it to. I know he also had it at an early York US 30 reunion looking for history on it. I don't think he would have taken a car he thought was stolen to a show, but I guess you really don't know the history on something until you start digging. Anything is possible and it could be a title and VIN plate from another car. Maybe that is why the custom frame is under it? I would have never in a million years guessed the story of my funny car would of have turned out like it did. It seems alot of shady activity went on back in the good old days.