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Missing since 1974, Michigan State alums launch statewide search to find long-lost car
"This is a mission from God, so we're going to keep searching." - Dennis Kline
7/14/19LANSING, Mich. — Sometimes the best ideas and most perfectly laid plans come together over a cheap pitcher of beer. That's what happened for a group of engineering students at Michigan State University in 1969, earning them an Oldsmobile Cutlass that they souped-up and turned into a competitive dragster.
Fifty years and several leads later, many of the guys who were involved in the program find themselves deeply entrenched in a mission to see if the car still exists.
It all started in the late fall of 1969. The student chapter of the Michigan State University Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) would gather at a bar in Okemos, Mich., called Monty's to unwind, talk about cars and drink some beers.
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And Sept 25, 2018 Hot Rod
Project W-31: A Hands-On Lesson in Drag Racing for a Group of Michigan State University Engineering Students
Americans love to wax poetic about 1969—Woodstock, the moon landing, cool cars—but it also was a tumultuous time to be a young male. Postwar prosperity and optimism gave way to assassinations, the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, and general cultural confusion. But for a revolving door of Michigan State University (MSU) engineering students, 1969-1973 was a seminal period. Through an interesting sequence of events, they managed to convince Oldsmobile, MSU and its chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), and a host of suppliers to support the preparation of a race car on a shoestring budget.
continued https://www.hotrod.com/articles/proj...ring-students/
Last edited by Cosmic Charlie; Jan 23, 2020 at 03:37 PM.
All vehicles legitimatly scrapped in Mi hav their # logged & forever unregistatable has this states & adjoining states DMV been thoroughly researched
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I know exactly where the baby blue 67 425 that was used to move Earth past the farm implements got relocated
when th agg engineering Barn was torn down & th giant geers & pulleys also
know of this vehicle by reputation only and to the best of my knowledge have never seen it
A 70 that was bought site unseen off Onadaga rd at a stone house & sold to someone from chicago 20 years ago is only 1 of 2 possabilities that I can think of
Will ask chi - guy from wayback with all th '70 s ....but no way....pissin in the wind......
Rumor has it this car was a body only no vin number donated for the project...out the back door so to speak. therefore it was probably never street driven or registered, unless documents and numbers were faked/added later.
Rumor has it this car was a body only no vin number donated for the project...out the back door so to speak. therefore it was probably never street driven or registered, unless documents and numbers were faked/added later.
