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That front crossmember had to come off, along with the bumper support and that exposed the grille area. A little semi-gloss paint and it looked better. A little gloss paint on the front crossmember and engine. The new aluminum water pump arrives but it's cast iron so it went back. Couldn't...

Had a small leak in the under-car Hooker headers so I took them off and searched for the hole. It was the filler plate in the collector that seals the four runners where they join. Took the headers to several shops, including a race-car fabrication shop and they all told me it would be cheaper...

The original plan was to use the rear bearing grease tool to re-pack the wheel bearings. While it was apart, replace the rusty parking brake parts with a stainless kit. Once I discovered the bearings were toast, moved on to plan B. Plan B was to buy all the tools and rebuild my own trailing...

Thanks Jane Ann, It's pretty boring stuff but hopefully there are more old folks out there who have their car gathering dust in the garage.

I scored an L-88 long hood at an Eckler's open house weekend. It was offered for less than half-price so I bought it and tried to mount it on the car. The hinge mounts were wrong and so were the latch plates. I cut slots in the hood frame and removed the plates, cut the plates out of the...

I managed to work on the car from time to time but it was small stuff. Bought a spoiler from a friend who didn't get around to installing it. Moulded it in while repairing the busted up glass under the stock spoiler. I never liked the egg crate grilles on the 70-72 Corvette. Ecklers sold a...

I graduated from night school in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in English and my wife asked me what I wanted for graduation. I said I wanted a Corvette and she let me go out and buy one. Found a green convertible four-speed 427-390 big block with 90,000 miles on it. Started fixing it up but...