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Originally Posted by manbridge 74
From another forum regarding Woit....
His Corvette had a suspension failure on the freeway and hit a concrete K-rail. He also built a lifted 4wd Oldsmobile that he drove around the Hollywood Hills canyons.
And...
“Charlie was the wrench! He worked at the gas station on Crescent Hts and Sunset. He worked on some of Bud Ekins and Steve McQueens vehicles that regularly went down to Baja for the desert races. He was friends with both families, childhood pal of Joe Michiels.
Late 70's he was living in Canyon Country on Gazeley Street a couple of miles from me. On Sundays he would sell gold panning supplies at the Saugus Speedway swap meet. Interesting guy and probably far more to him than most knew. Avid miner, owned a placer mine called the Gentle Buzzard Mine.
He died on Vasquez Canyon Road near the 14 and was interred at Forest Lawn.
I only saw the Corvette a few times of times on Mulholland. I saw the lifted Oldsmobile around the valley quite a bit going up down Sepulveda and the 405 when it was actually still a freeway.”
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Cool! I was still editing all of the iPhone typing errors up top, and just spotted this. It is nice to get the guys story right. Thus another appreciated contribution. So the garage was one of the gas stations.
I remember back in that era, Gas Stations had real certified Mechanics, and did real car work. They also used to park their hot cars on the lots.
I have seen the other Canyon twice, and Vasquez in one other source. So you saw his Corvette. It would be cool to get more info on that car. On a page or so back, one of the real Mulholland racers posted up the black and white, but didn't say if it was Charlie's car or someone unknown.
If I really dig into my stuff, I could probably find something on just about any Corvette doing any kind of competition events. I don't remember Charlie's name coming up in anything outside of Mulholland, that I have ever read, but then I find all kinds of stuff that I have read years ago, that I don't remember.