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It's been so long ago that I'm not exactly sure of this, but it seems to me that I had a similar problem and it turned out to be the dimmer switch on the floor was bad. It was so hot that it "almost" melted the wire connectors. Ol Blue

StrokerOne Great car!! Was the backdrop especially for your photo shoot or is there some history about the Flying Tiger airplane? Keep us updated whith the Corvette life in Italy. Ol Blue

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Tom I have original buckets and one cover. I have two repo covers on it now. BossVette Here is a shot of the car in the race that it was clocked at 187mph on the back straight, before they put the chicane there. Ol Blue

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Dave Check the hood and headlight fit to help determine if there was previous damage from wreck. You also could look under the front and rear fenders to see if there are any bonding strips, (one piece front end repairs might not have them) and see if there are any holes in the bonding strips...

I used to run inserts in the Kustom sidepipe headers on my 63 before changing to Heddman sidepipe headers feeding the factory units. To facilitate getting the inserts out, I had a quarter inch rod welded across the inlet. It allowed me to hook one end of a chain to the insert and to something...

Good progress!! Sorry I didn't think to remind you to change the wheels to larger ones. I changed mine to 8 or 10 inch rubber ones. That was a bad choice because the rubber ones don't want to move around as well as the plastic ones did. But I was able to slide the engine hoist under it and...

celeryman22 You could probably get by with a t-top and take the doors off, but there would be more of a chance of body twist with the doors off. I think I would leave them on or make some brackets out of 1" square tubing to bolt to the hinge piller and the door latch assembly. I was going to...

Timme69680 I just recently took the body off of my daughter's 72 LT-1 convert and used a cherry picker engine hoist. I had already removed the engine, trans and gas tank, and slid the frame out from under it using dolly's under each wheel. If you go the route of using a cherry picker, make...

LanceB I just remembered a problem that caused my gas mileage to go way down years ago. There is a small vent hole in the top of the fuel pump. I had a leaky pump diaphram which caused a little gas to be squirted out of that vent hole. It didn't puddle anyplace but my gas mileage dropped...

LanceB Did you change the speedometer drive gear in the transmission to match the new rear end gears? If not, your odometer will be off. Gears are only around $4 or $5 at Chevy, but they come in a pack of two. Ol Blue

Thanks to all for your replies. Yeah, I agree on the problem of never matching the silver, but I was wanting to "get by" in making it look a little better until I can get the time to completely strip the paint. I'm doing a body-off restoration of my daughter's 72 LT-1 convert and don't want...

I've not used POR strip, but I've used Captain D's spra n strip successfully on a couple of cars. Ol Blue

I used white waterproof grease. I didn't want to use something that would get thick when it got cold. Ol Blue

71 UK Vette You might consider changing your center pull emergency brake system to an under the dash 1965 unit. That would give you some room for a small pad between the seats. There is not a lot of room there, but it's workable for fairly short drives. I even put an extra set of seat belts...

I need to do some touch up on my Silver 65. Does anyone have a line of where to get laquer paint or is it impossible to find? Thanks Ol Blue

I was just at a Chevy dealer to price a bunch of LT5 parts, including.... B-ignition module Part # 11103841 listed at $861.74 Spark module Part #16080211 listed at $77.98 Coil packs (4 requred) Part # 10467067 list at $230. GM Partswarehouse online has much cheaper prices, but their shipping...

I'm not totally sure this is necessary, but I was told a long time ago to ground a Corvette when painting it, so I always do that with a chain. Ol Blue

IH2LOSE Take a look at The Corvette Image products. www.corvetteimage.com I've seen some of their press molded parts and they really look good and are the right color. They even have a complete front end available made up in a jig so it has all of the bonding strips and everything is the...