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Guys you have to remember that Tulsa was a hotbed of auto racing back then. The Gulf corvettes were wrenched on here very often. I remember stoping by and drooling over them at a Gulf service station that is now a Churches fried chicken outlet at I-44 @ Peoria. Bob Creitz and his chief mechanic Mike Sizemore would also have them at their shop over on Admiral. Creitz was a well known drag racer at the time. I grew up with Mike and Pat Sizemore. Bob Creitz lived across from me back in the early 60's. There was so much to see in and around Tulsa back then.

I just figgure the Blue L-88 vette was delivered here for Gulf to prepare to race or something like that. I got to see a lot of neat stuff back then. I was always out looking for neat cars and crusing the "resless ribbon" most every night.

If it rolled on wheels and was fast I probably saw it at one time or another. I grew up on 15th st. and remember a pair of SCCA race ready new 68 Z-28's at a alignment shop less than a mile from where I lived.

When I was younger, King Dave a pin striper lived on the other side of my block. He always had some of the neatest custom cars on his driveway to pinstripe and I would ride my bike around there and watch him for hours. That is probably what built my interest in cars so much when I was not even old enough to drive yet.

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