1969 ZL1 Vette?

[1903USMCUnertl]

I used to work at Hechler in the early 90's (1992-1996) and a lot of the key people involved with the yellow car were still around at the time. The salesperson who retailed the car (Hoyt Rotella..since passed), the mechanics who used to work on the car (Mikey Toler and Dick Burton..both passed), the asst service manager (Lloyd Spence...still here I beleive) and the General Manager (Ted Patrick...who later bought the dealership...passed).

It was interesting to get their perspectives on the car. At the time it was there it was more of a pain in the ass than anything else...it sat inside the showroom and people were always asking to hear it run or climbing into it. It was hard to start and stunk up the dealership (fouling maybe) when it needed to be moved. It also apparently used to bring the Zone people over (the Richmond Zone office was about 3 miles from the dealership) and they were always nosing around. The funniest one to me though was how when it started up it almost rattled the window glass out of the building when reved up.

Hechler had a long straight service bay and apparently when the mechanics worked on it...they were always trying to "holeshot" the car through the service department. Lloyd mentioned one day they almost broadsided a customers car when a mechanic was backing out of a lift area.. after that the "holeshots" stopped.


Cool car