Started by Tyla · Fri 2003-04-04 (23 years ago) · in Customized C3's
rockcrusher67 wrote: I personally think we have had 2 great administrators. As far as i know that is all there has been on this site. There was somebody out Co way a couple of years ago selling repo body parts for the Corvette Summer car. Yes this ad is misleading, sounds like this is the real thing.
Thats good news.
bad link on the website....
"Randy"
rockcrusher67 wrote: I emailed the seller, asked him to explain the car not being right hand drive. See what he has to say.
Thats good news.
bad link on the website....
Website working [temp site] and email is good. Korky would love to hear from his friends. He built one or two Corvette Summer replicas while in semi retirement in Arizona for a few years. We are putting a new website together for him with all his movie and custom cars, he is back in Los Angeles now. If you have an interest in his cars, or his work, please let him know. If you want "Corvette Summer" parts, I believe he has the molds; he never sold the cars or rights to the cars to the studios. I will update exactly where the cars are on his new site. Korky owns the rights to the intellectual property associated with those cars.
www.korkyskustomstudios.com / korkyskustom@gmail.com
KORKYSKUSTOMSTUDIOS.COMRichard "Korky" Korkes - Korkys Kustom StudiosThanks,
JM / former employee.
BTW - Korky has done more famous cars than most people know. I was moving a red caddy convertible one day and I wondered who the car belonged to, I looked in the glove compartment and there was a wallet. Opened it up and a DL... Marvin Gaye. Built or worked on so many cars… Farrah Faucett, Elton John, Sony and Cher, Green Mamba jet dragster, Piranha Corvettes, NFL helmet carts, MLB Cap/Ball carts, Harry Bradley’s car, Bat Cycle, Batmobile (korky other guys are the true builders of the bat car at Barris' shop) and the list goes on and on and on…. Watch for his new site with all his cars. There is a designer putting the website together now. (7/09)
rockcrusher67 wrote: Well he emailed back and claims there were 3 cars built. the other 2 were right hand drive and both used in the movie. Says they are both worth $1,000,000 each, the 1 he is selling was built for show and promotion use only.
Thats good news.
bad link on the website....Website working [temp site] and email is good. Korky would love to hear from his friends. He built one or two Corvette Summer replicas while in semi retirement in Arizona for a few years. We are putting a new website together for him with all his movie and custom cars, he is back in Los Angeles now. If you have an interest in his cars, or his work, please let him know. If you want "Corvette Summer" parts, I believe he has the molds; he never sold the cars or rights to the cars to the studios. I will update exactly where the cars are on his new site. Korky owns the rights to the intellectual property associated with those cars.
www.korkyskustomstudios.com / korkyskustom@gmail.com
KORKYSKUSTOMSTUDIOS.COMRichard "Korky" Korkes - Korkys Kustom StudiosThanks,
JM / former employee.
BTW - Korky has done more famous cars than most people know. I was moving a red caddy convertible one day and I wondered who the car belonged to, I looked in the glove compartment and there was a wallet. Opened it up and a DL... Marvin Gaye. Built or worked on so many cars… Farrah Faucett, Elton John, Sony and Cher, Green Mamba jet dragster, Piranha Corvettes, NFL helmet carts, MLB Cap/Ball carts, Harry Bradley’s car, Bat Cycle, Batmobile (korky other guys are the true builders of the bat car at Barris' shop) and the list goes on and on and on…. Watch for his new site with all his cars. There is a designer putting the website together now. (7/09)
Auction for autographed Corvette Summer items from Korky, now on Korky's website!
dreamer wrote: My system crashed,or something."T" I love your wrap around spoiler,I've seen something like it but can't remember where.I want to make a diary,or video of what I'm doing.We bought a new T hink V.A Dell that cooks.My camera takes good pictures but the attachment box will only hold 130Kb my pic's are …
Okay, here's something you're sure to have never seen before. It's a newspaper article from 1983 with photos showing the CS car and replica shop teacher's suburban that plowed into a lake off the highway. This is one of the earliest verifiable sources that prove that the primary movie car went to Australia. Up until a few years ago when I began my research, there were only rumors about what happened to the other car. I have since gathered documentation that supports perhaps more of the history of the primary car in Australia, than the backup car that is here in the US.
Yes, that's a crane lifting the transport truck out of the lake, and a diver getting ready to plunge in the second photo.
Hello all, I just joined today after finding this site Googling 'Corvette Summer'. I had heard about the crash but never saw pictures before. Interestingly, the rear bow tie lens shows what looks to be 'Corvette' instead of 'Sting Ray' from the movie car. Any thoughts on that?
Greg
djunod wrote: Somehow the setting had gotten bumped down, probably by the restore that they had done. Anyway it back to 500K, so upload away.
Keen eye...yep..one of he two real deals had "corvette" the other had "Stingray"
...We Are The Music Makers & We Are the Dreamers Of The Dreams...
Cheers,
P.
Tyla wrote: my digital camera set on "best" my pictures are huge, David likes 'em big but I still knock them down to about half what the camera uploads them to my computer at. I use "ulead" photo editor does almost everything "adobe" does for free.
This is a drawing I just finished for a good friend of mine. He told me the other day that the movie Corvette Summer changed his life and is why he got into Corvettes.
dreamer wrote: dreamer I'm sorry but I seem to have gotten' everyone on the wrong subject again.Was there a mako hood without the dips?It almost looks like they took the light doors off and slanted back futher.The summer car's snout looks makoish but I think smoother.I was looking at the hood dips last night,and …
The movie inspired many of us, I never get tired of the corvetteforum Mullets calling this the buttfugly-est vette of all time...might be but they remember it...it made it's mark....in a way my custom mako build is at least in part inspired by this car...
...We Are The Music Makers & We Are the Dreamers Of The Dreams...
Cheers,
P.
Tyla wrote: I still believe the front clip of the CSC is far closer to a cut up stock than a mako clip, I will play in photo shop and see if I can ghost one over the other, go back to the first page of this thread I posted pics of each the CSC is no maco clip, the hood dips in the Maco in my opinion make the fr …
Check this out!!
Pictures of the car that went to Australia and wound up in the water, now completely rebuilt(and slightly changed)
http://www.smoothcustoms.com.au/images/files/CORVETTE%20SUMMER.pdf
dreamer wrote: dreamer I'm Not sure if it's the dips I dislike or the fact that they do nothing.Honestly,it's not that I hate them,it's that I can't figure a CSC type light placement with them there.I know the dips say maco,but mine look like an afterthought.when I get a scanner I'll show you what I'm workin'on.
Great find!!!
This a picture of the one in Mike Yager's collection.
Has Stingray on the back.
Last words in fatal accidents for 49 of 50 states are "Oh Sh*t!" Final words in Wisconsin are "Hold my beer, I'm gonna try somethin'..."
djunod wrote: I don't understand the dips either. They aren't on the real Mako. If/when I ever get the CNC Mill, then I'm going to make grill-like panels that fill them in like on the real Mako.
Dang it Marv...
Keep your paws off of my car.....
"Randy"
Tyla wrote: DREAMER: If you wanna get an idea of the dips with CSC headlights look at Davids car, and I don't want to offend but the angel of the lights don't match the angle of the dips so it doesn't look like one or the other belong on the same car,so in the case of Davids car it might just look better withou …
I heard the one at Mid America had a new owner. Was sold sometime in June and left in the collection until around September then went into a private collection. Can anyone verify this? Website lists it as sold. Was for sale for 80K IIRC. Anyone know who bought it? Anyone here???
dreamer wrote: dreamer I'll be stripping my hood next weekend and maybe decide then.The dips don't seem to flow as smoothly as the other body lines.If they were slanted into the srounding hood smoothly,kinda' like an ogee into the front of the scoop.Maybee we should raise the spoiler.I cant help it!Every time I s …
In looking at the Aussie pix again it looks like that one still has the moon roof t-tops. You can see them in the pix where it is painted gold. They are sitting on top of the car. Cool!
dreamer wrote: dreamer I like the 4 headlight deal.
Well, I can verify firsthand that the car is still at Mid America. Saw it yesterday and took lots of pics. Will post when I get home. Better go see it while you can. It will be gone soon and most likely won't be available for public viewing. It's going into a private collection. Lots of other very impressive cars there as well!
Tyla wrote: in days of better health I have worked with a dude who built a whole c4 'vert body to use on a veedub pan, my health wont allow me to make a mold bigenough to make a crash helmet for a fruit fly right now... Cheers, T.
what did they do, sell the car???
"Randy"
CS Fan wrote: I know this thread is a few years old, but I humbly admit to knowing more about the CS movie cars than probably anyone else on the planet. If anyone has a question about the cars, feel free to ask. I am also the first person to ever create a screen-accurate replica. Since molds were required to make …
Yes, Mike Yager (Mid America's owner)has sold the car. He is redirecting his energy to Corvette concept cars, GM styling cars and historical race cars to fill his collection. He already has some great new cars in the collection including the 64 World's Fair Corvette and the 64 Bunkie Knudson Corvette as well as XP-819 and CERV-1(currently being restored)
Definately a must see collection!! And best of all, it's free!!
CS Fan wrote: I know this thread is a few years old, but I humbly admit to knowing more about the CS movie cars than probably anyone else on the planet. If anyone has a question about the cars, feel free to ask. I am also the first person to ever create a screen-accurate replica. Since molds were required to make …
Yes, Mike Yager(Mid America's owner) has sold the car. He is refocusing his collection towards Corvette concept cars, styling cars and historic race cars. Already gracing his collection are the 64 Worlds Fair styling Corvette, the 64 Bunkie Knudson styling Corvette, XP-819(currently being restored) and CERV-1 as well as lots of other one of a kind must see cars. The best part is... It's free!!
CS Fan wrote: I know this thread is a few years old, but I humbly admit to knowing more about the CS movie cars than probably anyone else on the planet. If anyone has a question about the cars, feel free to ask. I am also the first person to ever create a screen-accurate replica. Since molds were required to make …
Yes, it is sold.
CS Fan wrote: I know this thread is a few years old, but I humbly admit to knowing more about the CS movie cars than probably anyone else on the planet. If anyone has a question about the cars, feel free to ask. I am also the first person to ever create a screen-accurate replica. Since molds were required to make …
Yes, the car is sold. Mike Yager (Mid America's owner) has refocused his collection to include more Corvette concept cars, styling cars and rare, historical race cars. Already gracing his collection are the 64 Worlds fair styling Corvette, the 64 Bunkie Knudson styling Corvette, XP-819 (currently under restoration) and CERV-1 as well as many other interesting, one of a kind cars.
The best part is that it's free to see!!!
CS Fan wrote: I know this thread is a few years old, but I humbly admit to knowing more about the CS movie cars than probably anyone else on the planet. If anyone has a question about the cars, feel free to ask. I am also the first person to ever create a screen-accurate replica. Since molds were required to make …
Yes, the car is sold. Mike Yager (Mid America's owner) has refocused his collection to include more Corvette concept cars, styling cars and rare, historical race cars. Already gracing his collection are the 64 Worlds fair styling Corvette, the 64 Bunkie Knudson styling Corvette, XP-819 (currently under restoration) and CERV-1 as well as many other interesting, one of a kind cars.
The best part is that it's free to see!!!
CS Fan wrote: I know this thread is a few years old, but I humbly admit to knowing more about the CS movie cars than probably anyone else on the planet. If anyone has a question about the cars, feel free to ask. I am also the first person to ever create a screen-accurate replica. Since molds were required to make …
Yes, the car is sold. Mike Yager (Mid America's owner) has refocused his collection to include more Corvette concept cars, styling cars and rare, historical race cars. Already gracing his collection are the 64 Worlds Fair styling Corvette, the 64 Bunkie Knudson styling Corvette, XP-819 (currently under restoration) and CERV-1 as well as many other interesting, one of a kind cars.
The best part is that it's free to see!!!
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