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Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

Quote from the Hemmings article:

"The car was driven by GM design chief Bill Mitchell, and later given to Jim Jeffords in appreciation of the two national driving championships he won as a member of the Chevrolet Corvette Racing Team. It underwent a complete restoration a number of years ago, and is now in the care of Joe Bortz, the noted Chicago, Illinois, dream car collector. "

Those were the days, eh?

Nowadays you'd get a lapel pin or something.

K

I hear what you are saying Keith! Alittle off subject. If you ever heard a Latham Blower on the street you would never forget it!!! An Officer in my Fathers Squaden had a 3 or 4 rotor version on his Chrysler 300 back in the late 60's. It sounded like he had a jet engine under the hood!!!! You could hear that car coming at least 2 miles away (it was at NAS Corpus Christi so nothing to block the sound unless the F-4's were taking off) Only bad thing was my Father always knew when he was running late!!!! Thanks for the memories, I had forgotton about that car it still had tailfins so it must have been a late 50's Model.
I don't think you could drive a Latham on the street in most parts of the county, even back then you would get noise complaints!