Barn find advice

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As found. . .

 

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Moving Day. . .

 

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Moving Day (Part 2). . .

 

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Moving Day (Part 3) . . .

 

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Early Restoration. . .

All the chrome buffed out to like new with some hard elbow grease.

Car had a luggage rack on it at pont point because there were holes in the deck. I just happend to have a correct fitting luggage rack lying arround!! What are the odds of that!?!?!

The years in the barn striped the paint off the emblums. . .but the metal was still good so i just repainted them.

Pulled the intake, blasted, primed, and painted.

More photos later.

 

[Huskerman]

Great find! Looks like it is fairly unmolested....should be a lot of fun getting it going again..........

 

[White75]

Man that is a beautiful vette. Doesn't look like you'll have to do any paint/bodywork.

 

[Bolisk]

Thanks!!

The body is fairly clean, no major damange that I can find. There is some damage arround the wheel wells, and the passneger door got opened to hard one time and crack the door panel on the hinge.

Frame is straigh and near mint. Bird cage is very solid.

She's got 20 footer paint. Lost of small blisters and some cracking. . .but nothing that has to be taken car of right away. I'm going to worry about mechanicals and the interior first. Then one day I will get arround to paint. In the mean time I'm going to have fun with her. . .and it will be great not having to worry about her getting scratches.

 

[Toms007]

Sounds like a nice project. And an eventual nice driver.

 

[2VettesMike]

Perhaps your clutch is stuck to the flywheel and/or pressure plate? That can happen even if the shifter is in neutral.

-Mac

Not possible unless the trans is frozen up. Don't believe me put a manual car on a hill, turn off the engine, put the trans in neutral, let out the clutch, take your foot off the brake and watch it roll away.....

Great car, I'm partial to 72's....

It cleaned up well. What was the factory color before the change to non-factory black?

Thanks,

Mike

 

[bill81vette]

very nice!!!!!

 

[Mac]

Not possible unless the trans is frozen up. Don't believe me put a manual car on a hill, turn off the engine, put the trans in neutral, let out the clutch, take your foot off the brake and watch it roll away.....

Great car, I'm partial to 72's....

It cleaned up well. What was the factory color before the change to non-factory black?

Thanks,

Mike

If I'm driving it to the hill, the clutch isn't jammed up so your test isn't relevent.

I've seen an old car that was parked for a couple of years, left in neutral. When we decided to fire it up, when we turned the key, the starter couldn't roll the engine over. When we tried to push it outside, it resisted for a second and then, with an audible cracking sound, it broke free.... and the starter was able to turn the engine over. I didn't take it apart and the only thing we could come up with was that the clutch had jammed/rusted in place.

-Mac