well, Baby, the '65, won't be lonely anymore.
this afternnon the flatbed followed me home and we unloaded the '78 project car into the garage.
I threw a bettery in her, checked to make sure there were actually fluids still in her and got her to fire up. She doesn't want to idle worth a damn, but she starts and runs. Now I get to tear the engine bay apart and freshen it up like I ALMOST finished doing with the '65.
Now there are currently two projects sitting in the garage. The '65 is waiting on the distributor, I'm waiting on the parts still to finish the carb, and I have to reinstall the donut gaskets back into the exhaust.
Hopefully i'll get the donuts in the '65 in tomorrow so than I can drop Baby down off the jackstands.
The guy let me bring the '78 home and he handed over all the documentation that includes the original window sticker, past registrations, title applications, service records, everything - and I haven't even paid him for the car yet!!
I'm only the 3rd owner on this original 9,389 mile car! it's really a shame she was negleted so badly during her limited milage life but nothing that can't be brought back to looking good again
The reason is that because it's an out of state car and it needs to be in this state so an inspector from DMV can come to the house and verify the VIN number so we can go to the DMV and transfer the title. We agreed I'd pay him once the title clears and they issue me a current new DE title on the car.
Wow! two years ago I was dreaming of owning a corvette sometime in my life and now there are two of them in my garage. We don't even need to mention the irony that it wan't too long ago that i couldn't even change the oil in a car and now i bought a deliberate project car!
Well, at least Baby won't get lonely out there alone in the garage anymore.
this afternnon the flatbed followed me home and we unloaded the '78 project car into the garage.
I threw a bettery in her, checked to make sure there were actually fluids still in her and got her to fire up. She doesn't want to idle worth a damn, but she starts and runs. Now I get to tear the engine bay apart and freshen it up like I ALMOST finished doing with the '65.
Now there are currently two projects sitting in the garage. The '65 is waiting on the distributor, I'm waiting on the parts still to finish the carb, and I have to reinstall the donut gaskets back into the exhaust.
Hopefully i'll get the donuts in the '65 in tomorrow so than I can drop Baby down off the jackstands.
The guy let me bring the '78 home and he handed over all the documentation that includes the original window sticker, past registrations, title applications, service records, everything - and I haven't even paid him for the car yet!!
I'm only the 3rd owner on this original 9,389 mile car! it's really a shame she was negleted so badly during her limited milage life but nothing that can't be brought back to looking good again
The reason is that because it's an out of state car and it needs to be in this state so an inspector from DMV can come to the house and verify the VIN number so we can go to the DMV and transfer the title. We agreed I'd pay him once the title clears and they issue me a current new DE title on the car.
Wow! two years ago I was dreaming of owning a corvette sometime in my life and now there are two of them in my garage. We don't even need to mention the irony that it wan't too long ago that i couldn't even change the oil in a car and now i bought a deliberate project car!
Well, at least Baby won't get lonely out there alone in the garage anymore.
. Linda finally has her own vette!!!!!!!!
and I am soooo happy for her. Congrats you two and have a great weekend!
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