Welcome to Weiner Wednesday! We take a look at good Corvettes gone bad and the “weiners” that took them there. Weiner Wednesday treads a fine line between good and bad, art and trash, virtue and evil, you pick your poison.
This 1974 Corvette decked out like a WWII fighter with “nose art” is simultaneously interesting yet hideous. The gnashing teeth, torpedo bomb side pipes and blacked out, “canopy” with painted window panes is drab and ungainly.
The Ford taillights, (T-Bird or Galaxie?) are heavy handed and heinous yet curiously evoke jet engines when the era of airplanes this car tips it’s hat to, were powered by props.
Not only does the car pay homage to old school fighter planes, but cross pollinates that with gasser drag cars hence the name “Glasser.” An interesting combination.
According to Wiki, WWII airplane “Nose art is a decorative painting or design on the fuselage of an aircraft, usually on the front fuselage.
While begun for practical reasons of identifying friendly units, the practice evolved to express the individuality often constrained by the uniformity of the military, to evoke memories of home and peacetime life, and as a kind of psychological protection against the stresses of war and the probability of death.
The appeal, in part, came from nose art not being officially approved, even when the regulations against it were not enforced.
Because of its individual and unofficial nature, it is considered folk art, inseparable from work as well as representative of a group.
It can also be compared to sophisticated graffiti. In both cases, the artist is often anonymous, and the art itself is ephemeral. In addition, it relies on materials immediately available.”
Take all that and ditch the independent front suspension for a primitive beam axle, add moon disc caps out back, jack the thing up and hit the drag strip. In that arena, this thing would be hellacious flying down the strip.
In everyday life, it’s awkward and goofy, but like we said at the top of the piece, to each his own. Speaking of owners, we reverse googled the two images of the car and came up with zero information about the car.
Anybody out there know this ‘Vette? Let me know in the comments below.