Bay Area Safari
Vintage Edition

   In this vintage edition of Bay Area Safari we step back in time to the late 1970s. Here we focus on Bay Area resident Bill Chizar. Bill’s day job was driving one of the dawn o’clock San Francisco Chronicle blue trucks, delivering the morning paper to the area’s newsstands. Bill also was one of the early participants in Steve Earl’s vintage events. Something in those days you could do as a hobby, with a decent trucker’s union salary.
   In the late 70s Bill heard there was an old Testa Rossa somewhere in the area. He tracked it down. When he found it, paying about 8k, it was licensed for the street and powered by a Corvette engine.
   The photos here were taken by Bill, and during restoration by Steve Patience at his shop in Hayward.
   All the shots really place what owning and prepping a TR was like in a much earlier time.

   Our friend at Hemmings, Dan Strol, put together a fine excerpt from Metal Memory on Bill Chizar's TR 0718 titled: An interview with the newspaper delivery guy who bought a Ferrari Testa Rossa for eight grand.
I thought it would make for a fun link from here.
   Just tap the photo of 0718 in front of Bill's apartment in the late 1970s.