For Sale is my 1965 Coupe.
Body off restored (except for the paint) completed in 2003 . I purchased the car in March of 2004 approx 500miles after the restoration was completed.
I had the car painted in 2004/2005 the original Milano Maroon (basecoat / Clearcoat paint).
Interior is black...
Well, it's been a longer project than we had planned, we started planning it in the middle of May and started actually working on the car July 3rd and finally today we finished.
Today we had to reinstall the drivers side exhaust manifold which was removed to get the frozen studs out to replace...
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for anyone interested, I've updated my website's Tech Articles page with additional items including some direct links to articles in other places.
There are now 124 articles/links posted up, mainly relating to C1/C2/C3 information but also a few assorted articles for C4's.
feel free to...
Hi all
for anyone interested, I've updated my website's Tech Articles page with additional items including some direct links to articles in other places.
There are now 124 articles/links posted up, mainly relating to C1/C2/C3 information but also a few assorted articles for C4's.
feel free to...
Hi all
for anyone interested, I've updated my website's Tech Articles page with additional items including some direct links to articles in other places.
There are now 124 articles/links posted up, mainly relating to C1/C2/C3 information but also a few assorted articles for C4's.
feel free to...
hi all
it's been a few weeks but finally time for an update.
Because of our clubs annual car show 2 weeks ago and than other obligations by most of us last week it's been a few weeks since we have been able to work on the car but this weekend we got some more accomplished.
Yesterday (Saturday)...
after three months of work on Sundays we finally got the body dropped back down on the replacement frame today!
there were a few things to do beforehand such as last minute installs of the vacuum cannister, a new lower speedo cable plus double checking pretty much every nut, bolt, and screw on...
another good day on the project.
Got the drive shaft installed along with the top of the spare tire carrier and gas tank, new master cylinder and new coolant control valve.
Most important we finally got the rear bumper mount brackets repaired and straightened out. The frame we are using must...
made very nice progress today on the 1980 frame replacement project.
We got the entire front suspension installed plus all the steering componetes, front and rear sway bars, and the helicoil in one of the rear differential mounting holes for the rear leaf spring because the hole had been...
got the entire rear suspension installed today. The rebuilt trailing arms, half shafts, and strut rods from Van Steel came out GREAT and we got those, the differential, new KYB GR2 shocks, and the Van Steel composite leaf spring installed along with the Muskegon Brakes on the rear.
Muskegon...
feels good to have a great progress day!!
this was where we left the chassis last week:
and this is where we ended up today after about 5 1/2 hours of work:
We got all the suspension and the motor / trans off the old frame finally. Now it's just a matter of getting in all the new parts...
Our Corvette club hosts a cruise night on the 3rd Thursday of the month and we just had the most recent one a few nights ago.
I couldn't make it there because of work but around 10pm I get an email with these pictures from another club member.
This happened just minutes after leaving the...
well, I took my '65 down the dragstrip for the very first time today.
Mason Dixon chapter NCRS held their annual "Corvette Challenge" today at the Cecil County dragstrip in Rising Sun, MD. I've gone to this even before for the last 2 or 3 years but one thing or another prevented me from running...
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hoping someone might be able to help out here......
At our Corvette Club monthly meeting last night a member told us about a friend of his whose 17yo son has been saving his money for a long time to get his dream car, a Corvette, and he bought a 1980 recently.
It's a nice driver car and...
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I normally try to avoid posting questions this vague but i can't help it this time.
Local to me is a '71 LT1 for sale. I need to get some rough. general ideas of the value of the car or LT1's in general since I haven't followed LT1 market prices.
So far the only info I know so far...
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JohnZ has generously sent to me six more tech articles that he had written to add to my website's Tech Articles page.
The articles vary in subject matter from back-up lights to swapping intakes, swapping radiators, rear leaf springs, installing rivets and more.
There may be more coming...
Hi all
JohnZ has generously sent to me six more tech articles that he had written to add to my website's Tech Articles page.
The articles vary in subject matter from back-up lights to swapping intakes, swapping radiators, rear leaf springs, installing rivets and more.
There may be more coming...
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many of you take advantage of the tech files I have posted on my website. Because of some technical issues and speed reasons I finally decided to move the site off my own computer onto a real website hosting provider server.
The address of the tech page on my website is now...
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A number of you guys seem to enjoy and make use of the tech articles page on my website.
Just wanted to make you aware that I added a few more articles up this morning and also that I tried to organize the page a little better.
The type of file sharing page within my website building...
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