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My father passed away in March. My mother is trying to sell his corvette. His old mechanic has the car at his shop which is actually in Milton, FL about 20-30 minutes east of Pensacola, FL
He's had the car repainted in the original two tone silver over charcoal with the two tone stripes that separate the two colors painted on rather that stickers like it was originally. It's also got a clear coat. The paint is in great shape and is only a few years old. The car was always garage kept. He's got a dashpad on the car. The interior was originally gray, but he changed it to black. The carpet is new black carpet, the seats are black leather covered purchased from a kit and installed by a local shop as well as the carpet. The plastic bits in the interior were painted/dyed black. The steering wheel if memory serves correctly needs to be recovered. The interior is good, but not great. The car has a Blaupunkt CD head unit with new speakers on some sort of speaker enclosure that runs all the way across the back of the area behind the seats (it's only a few inches deep). He bought almost everything that he got for the car from Mid-America, or possibly Ecklers.
He also purchased a new weatherstripping/seal kit and had that installed by a local shop.
The car has less than 1000 miles on a new ZZ4 crate engine The motor is using the original Crossfire injection and steel tube headers. He also had a "level 3" chip put into the ECU with a 160* thermostat. The car comes with the original engine which my mother has at her house on the pallet that the crate engine came on. After he had the motor put in he had the transmission rebuilt to handle the extra power. I'm not sure who did the rebuild, but the shop owner where the car is located probably will. THe shop owner is the person that did the engine swap and all of the other work except for things like the actual tranny rebuild that he sent to a tranny shop. My father also had 3.55 gears put into the original rear end. Many, many years ago he had stainless calipers put on. The car has tires that were put on in the last 3 years or so with very few miles, so they are like new. I believe they are Eagle GT4's in the original size of 255 60 15.
My mother is asking 16,000, OBO.
The car is quite fast.
Unfortunately I don't have any pics since the car is there and I'm in Houston. In case you can't picture the paint scheme, this is what the car looks like in a picture that I found on the net
The shop owner is Don. Here is the address.
D & S AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE CENTER
6848 HIGHWAY 87 N, MILTON, FL 32570
Map to the shop
From Pensacola it's easy to find. Take either I-10 or 90 east, take the '87 exit and go north.
I'll do my best to answer any questions that you have or you can drop by and see the car and talk to Don. Like I said, he did all of the mechanical work.
He's had the car repainted in the original two tone silver over charcoal with the two tone stripes that separate the two colors painted on rather that stickers like it was originally. It's also got a clear coat. The paint is in great shape and is only a few years old. The car was always garage kept. He's got a dashpad on the car. The interior was originally gray, but he changed it to black. The carpet is new black carpet, the seats are black leather covered purchased from a kit and installed by a local shop as well as the carpet. The plastic bits in the interior were painted/dyed black. The steering wheel if memory serves correctly needs to be recovered. The interior is good, but not great. The car has a Blaupunkt CD head unit with new speakers on some sort of speaker enclosure that runs all the way across the back of the area behind the seats (it's only a few inches deep). He bought almost everything that he got for the car from Mid-America, or possibly Ecklers.
He also purchased a new weatherstripping/seal kit and had that installed by a local shop.
The car has less than 1000 miles on a new ZZ4 crate engine The motor is using the original Crossfire injection and steel tube headers. He also had a "level 3" chip put into the ECU with a 160* thermostat. The car comes with the original engine which my mother has at her house on the pallet that the crate engine came on. After he had the motor put in he had the transmission rebuilt to handle the extra power. I'm not sure who did the rebuild, but the shop owner where the car is located probably will. THe shop owner is the person that did the engine swap and all of the other work except for things like the actual tranny rebuild that he sent to a tranny shop. My father also had 3.55 gears put into the original rear end. Many, many years ago he had stainless calipers put on. The car has tires that were put on in the last 3 years or so with very few miles, so they are like new. I believe they are Eagle GT4's in the original size of 255 60 15.
My mother is asking 16,000, OBO.
The car is quite fast.
Unfortunately I don't have any pics since the car is there and I'm in Houston. In case you can't picture the paint scheme, this is what the car looks like in a picture that I found on the net
The shop owner is Don. Here is the address.
D & S AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE CENTER
6848 HIGHWAY 87 N, MILTON, FL 32570
Map to the shop
From Pensacola it's easy to find. Take either I-10 or 90 east, take the '87 exit and go north.
I'll do my best to answer any questions that you have or you can drop by and see the car and talk to Don. Like I said, he did all of the mechanical work.
