When you know about a car for years and years and years on end, and you know just where it is but cant see it, well you keep asking and sooner or later the day will come when you get to peak in the garage. Case in point is this 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster, not only did we know that it was in this specific garage, my father knew of the car when it was at the gentlemans other house before he moved to this house in the early 90s. We would see the gentleman at shows and out and about in the town and periodically ask about the car, and he would simply say "yep still sitting their on blocks." But it wasnt until the gentlaman really realized that he himself wasnt going to be able to get the car on the road and that his family could use the money for other things, that we finally got the call. And O Boy was it a surprise when he opened the garage door and the first thing you see under a single light bulb light, is the outline of a 427 Corvette hood. Then your mind starts to race, wondering if this is a real 427 car, because he has never really given any specs to the car to us, just always said it was a 66 corvette roadster. So, you can only imagin the first thing to happen once he said "Yall look it over," was to crack the door open and hit that Hood Release lever. Without even hestating the hood pops open on only one side, and my father has to go to the other and with some very lite tapping on the corner it then pops up. The moment of truth as the hood comes, and sure enough their in fact lies a Big Block engine, but is it numbers matching to the car or simple one someone installed some time in the cars life? After spending a little time cleaning the engine pad, that lies in front of the passenger side head, I can see the engine suffix code which I read off to my father who goes straight to looking it up to see if thats correct for this year and make car, while I continue to look for the Car's VIN number stamped on the block. My father after a couple minutes of looking says, "Well its certainly for a 66 Corvette, and it says its a 427/390 Horsepower with a 4 Speed." I, without even looking up at him, say well thats a plus and I have a part of a VIN Number here, the last 4 to be specific. I look up from the engine bay and straight at him and without even saying a word, he ask "Does it Match." At that point im all ready half way back around the car, because the passenger side of the car is so close to another car and I cant open the door to check the Vin Number, so I have to go in from the drivers side. Opening the door and laying across the seats, which I must say havent been sat in since 1976 when  the car last on the road, ever so softly as to not bust the material due to them being so dry and dusty dirty. I can easily see the VIN Tag under the dash and sure enough they match whats on the engine block. While laying their I shout out the Paint and Trim Codes so that my Father could look them, becasue I wanted to touch the seats the least amount as possible so not to damage them. He later reads off that the car was factory Green with white interior. Once he read that off, I Instently knew that the interior of the car had never been touched, and just like the interior the soft that lay under the bonet hadnt been up since 1976 as well and would be very dry as well. After asking for the price of the car, and spending a little more time looking the car over some more, to verify what had or hadnt been touched or changed on the car since being new, we shook the mans hand and back home to get our winch trailer we went, along with air tanks, a jack, and some go jacks to move the car. Because even thow the car was sitting on top of blocks, ever single brake was locked up on the car. So with the assistance of a John Deere tractor belonging to the owner, the car finally seen the light of day after a vary vary long time of just sitting high and dry.