bossvette
Gone but not forgotten
it all started at Cruise-fest this year when my Wife drove 81KIXX back to Ohio from BG, She wanted a Vette of her own so we started looking I would find one and She would back down at the last minute; all the lookin' and no action got me going. I decided to raid the 401k and buy myself a project car. I was going to buy a forum members car (77 vert) from the Baton Rouge area but the transport was too expensive. I kept looking and found a 68 vert on Ebay about 100 miles away, bought a old dirt track race car trailer from a co-worker and bought it early Sunday morning. She was sitting by me when I was bidding and gave me the OK even though it was more then double what I had planned on spending and more then the 77 plus transport 
She then was talking about buying one for her but not wanting to spend "her" money. "you can't take it with you" I laughing told her "if she died I would have a new Z06 for the funeral procession on her."
We did a search for Pace cars and Collectors editions which is what she wanted and found a newly listed Collectors edition with a reasonable "but it now" price and she bought it.
the 82 arived on tuesday delivered by the seller
and I picked up the 68 yesterday
The trailer was delivered Monday night and I didn't have anything to pull it with to get registered let alone get the 68 so one co-worker loand me his trailers plate and another took me up to get it in his 4WD truck. We didnt have an adapter for the lights and planned on buying one on the way, since the first half of the trip was on 2 lane we were Ok just before we hit I69 I realized I had left the new plate on the front seat of the S10 :W:W
We pulled into a gas station to get a map to take an alternate route and discovered the trailer had a plate on it although it expired in 2004, much better then none . While looking for a map Brad found his adapter for the lights, plugged it in and nothing worked. We said "Oh well too late to turn back" and pressed onward to Battle Creek Mi.
While loading the Vette we discovered about 4 wasp nests and Brad sprayed them with rust-lick (the only thing we had) as he sprayed he got some on the the connector and the lights started working even his dome light (it had never worked before) we hit the road and arrived back just in time to get it inspected by BMV.
Here is a picture from the auction if you look real hard you will see it doesn't have a windshield which was replaced Monday.
so the saga begins with it going on the lift for a quick look at the brakes If I can fix them quickly I will drive it till winter on weekends if not it will go in the barn till I sell the 76 to finance the project.
She then was talking about buying one for her but not wanting to spend "her" money. "you can't take it with you" I laughing told her "if she died I would have a new Z06 for the funeral procession on her."
We did a search for Pace cars and Collectors editions which is what she wanted and found a newly listed Collectors edition with a reasonable "but it now" price and she bought it.
the 82 arived on tuesday delivered by the seller
and I picked up the 68 yesterday
The trailer was delivered Monday night and I didn't have anything to pull it with to get registered let alone get the 68 so one co-worker loand me his trailers plate and another took me up to get it in his 4WD truck. We didnt have an adapter for the lights and planned on buying one on the way, since the first half of the trip was on 2 lane we were Ok just before we hit I69 I realized I had left the new plate on the front seat of the S10 :W:W
We pulled into a gas station to get a map to take an alternate route and discovered the trailer had a plate on it although it expired in 2004, much better then none
. While looking for a map Brad found his adapter for the lights, plugged it in and nothing worked. We said "Oh well too late to turn back" and pressed onward to Battle Creek Mi. While loading the Vette we discovered about 4 wasp nests and Brad sprayed them with rust-lick (the only thing we had) as he sprayed he got some on the the connector and the lights started working even his dome light (it had never worked before) we hit the road and arrived back just in time to get it inspected by BMV.
Here is a picture from the auction if you look real hard you will see it doesn't have a windshield which was replaced Monday.
so the saga begins with it going on the lift for a quick look at the brakes If I can fix them quickly I will drive it till winter on weekends if not it will go in the barn till I sell the 76 to finance the project.
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4LT GS Roadster
