Laguna Seca Raceway California Boatillac Purrvertable 1979 01

Hot off the slide scanner and editor. It may be hard for people to believe, but admission for my early visits to the Historic Auto Races at Laguna Seca cost less than a month of California rent. At the time. This Cadillac is pre-dented with welding through-and-through.

 

The text on this Cadillac's windshield included a redacted-by-me Orange County, California phone number and read something like this:

 

4 SAIL

Chapparal 2-J Quartreporte

Boat De-Lux Jones Town Sedan

Steel Body, Chassis #002, Ex Moss,

Hill, Gurney, Unser, Cunningham, Shelby, Pete Green.

One of two built. Other car lost in

Vienna museum fire. Car is offered in

original, as-raced condition. Car has

been in an air-conditioned vault in the

Black Hills of South Dakota for the

past 15 years. Car has original secret

G. M. automatic, twice pipes, and

even gets A. M. It requires very

little to be a 100 pt. car. Prof.

maintained, sail anywhere.

PRICE: $1,000,000 GOLD and your first born

-OR-

G.T. 40 trades considered.

(714) ###-#### Se Habla Zambian, serious calls only

SPECS - SPECS - SPECS - SPECS

ENGINE: 390 V-8

TRANS: SECRET G. M. AUTOMATIC

FRONT SUSPENSION: INDEPENDENT

REAR SUSPENSION: BOTTOMED

BRAKES: YES

REAR END: FINNED

MILEGE: BETTER DOWNHILL

"RRACING HAS BEEN BARRY, BARRY GOOD TO ME."

 

If you don't share your stability and your economic success with the poor, the poor will share their instability and their poverty with you.

— Omaru Sisay

 

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Source: scanned Kodachrome 25 slide creating a 5,500x2,800 16-bit TIF file.

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