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stepho1975
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Hi everyone!
I've had my corvette for a while now, and its still in pieces. I joined this website hoping to find encouragement and excitement to motivate me into finishing this thing in a timely manner.
Here is a little bit about me, I am currently going to school to learn the art of welding. I drive a 1993 camaro z28 (and a 95 nissan sentra, that i'd rather not admit lol), and my project car is a 1975 Corvette. I am not concerned with keeping it original, which is good because the engine isn't. I have traced the block numbers and I believe the engine came from a 1971 el camino. It has headers, and edelbrock preformer intake and carb. Unfortunately it also has a badly rusted bird cage. I plan to drive the car, and take my lovely girlfriend out on dates in it, so I'm not expecting it to win any awards.
here is what the car looked like when I bought it: (slideshow)
here is what it looked like in february of this year: (slideshow)
Those pictures are almost current. I've made a little more progress but not nearly as much as I should have. Part of the problem was that I wasn't sure which direction to take. I contacted a corvette junk yard and talked to the owner. He said the easiest way was to take the birdcage off with the back half of the car and just replace the whole thing... $1500. The other option was the birdcage by itself for $900. Well I went to the yard and had a look around. I wasn't too impressed with the yard, being that it is corvette exclusive and every piece of metal is valuable I expected to find the cars under tarps or something. Almost none of them had the roof on or windshields or anything, leaving the birdcage completely exposed to the elements. Leaves were piling up around the birdcage. Not a good environment for steel. So I didn't find any birdcages that were in a whole lot better shape then mine. All of them would need patching as well. So I am going to go ahead with patching it.
I've had my corvette for a while now, and its still in pieces. I joined this website hoping to find encouragement and excitement to motivate me into finishing this thing in a timely manner.
Here is a little bit about me, I am currently going to school to learn the art of welding. I drive a 1993 camaro z28 (and a 95 nissan sentra, that i'd rather not admit lol), and my project car is a 1975 Corvette. I am not concerned with keeping it original, which is good because the engine isn't. I have traced the block numbers and I believe the engine came from a 1971 el camino. It has headers, and edelbrock preformer intake and carb. Unfortunately it also has a badly rusted bird cage. I plan to drive the car, and take my lovely girlfriend out on dates in it, so I'm not expecting it to win any awards.
here is what the car looked like when I bought it: (slideshow)
here is what it looked like in february of this year: (slideshow)
Those pictures are almost current. I've made a little more progress but not nearly as much as I should have. Part of the problem was that I wasn't sure which direction to take. I contacted a corvette junk yard and talked to the owner. He said the easiest way was to take the birdcage off with the back half of the car and just replace the whole thing... $1500. The other option was the birdcage by itself for $900. Well I went to the yard and had a look around. I wasn't too impressed with the yard, being that it is corvette exclusive and every piece of metal is valuable I expected to find the cars under tarps or something. Almost none of them had the roof on or windshields or anything, leaving the birdcage completely exposed to the elements. Leaves were piling up around the birdcage. Not a good environment for steel. So I didn't find any birdcages that were in a whole lot better shape then mine. All of them would need patching as well. So I am going to go ahead with patching it.
You'll find plenty of good help in the C3 section.
Jane Ann
Thanks for the encouragement guys! I'll definitely keep you updated with pics as we progress.
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