Welcome to the COMBINED C1 & C2 Forum

[67HEAVEN]

Let the fun begin!

Thanks Rob.

 

[Rob]

You're welcome. Hopefully, this will help get things moving a little more here.

 

[Subfixer]

Works for me... Never know what you'll learn from the C1 guys.

 

[67Don]

Anyone carburated or mechanically fuel injected is welcome.

Come to think, anyone with new fangled electronics and fuel delivery is welcome too.

 

[PTighe]

I'm here!

 

[MidShark]

PJ67
Oooh! What's the story on the '57? (Or is it a '56?) I am selling my '69 Camaro back to it's original owner next week, and will be looking more seriously for a '56 or '57 project car. You are making me drool!

Dick

 

[PTighe]

Oooh! What's the story on the '57? (Or is it a '56?)

It's a rolling '57 basket case I bought 10 years ago for $7K, no engine, transmission, interior or top. I put 5 years and 2500 hours of labor into it to make it a 1st place show car ('A' Modified).

Besides doing the frame off, I installed a new Chevy 350/345 crate engine, with a new Holley 750 double pumper and a M-22 rock crusher 4 speed. Everything was restored to stock with the exception of the engine, transmission and rally wheels. I put a total of $28K into the car and then sold it at Carlisle for $35K, which was a mistake, I wish I still had it!!! :duh

See additional pics below:

http://temp.corvetteforum.net/classics/yellow67/EngineBay/_57basket.1.jpg

http://temp.corvetteforum.net/classics/yellow67/EngineBay/_57basket.3.jpg

http://temp.corvetteforum.net/classics/yellow67/EngineBay/_57basket.2.jpg

http://temp.corvetteforum.net/classics/yellow67/EngineBay/57-3.jpg

 

[67Don]

PJ67, Have you painted the '67 yet?

 

[PTighe]

Have you painted the '67 yet?

Don, I'm almost there. Gotta finish up the new front end, strip the rest of the yellow paint off and it will be off to the shop for a high end DAU paint job. It probably won't happen until fall though, as slow as I am!
Patrick :z

 

[67HEAVEN]

Patrick, considering your move and all the yard work you're doing at the new place, I'd say you're moving right along on the '67.

I missed a deadline with the painter a few weeks ago (blame it on a car trailer in Florida......not here where it should have been) and now I've been bumped to next Friday afternoon for delivery of the body to them.

They're cutting off the four fenders and applying the new ones plus the front lower valance and turn-signal panels.

Two-to-three weeks later, I'm taking the chassis over to the shop for a hood, doors and headlight buckets test fit and body drop. If everything checks out, it's back on to the body dolly for a roll into the paint booth.

Then......back on to the chassis for the trip home.

P.S. The Richmond 5-speed has been shipped. By the time it gets through Customs, etc., it'll be here sometime late next week (I hope).

 

[PTighe]

considering your move and all the yard work you're doing at the new place, I'd say you're moving right along on the '67.

'67, I guess you could call it yard work, but it's easy, considering that I have the landscaper's secret weapon! :L

http://temp.corvetteforum.net/classics/yellow67/pictures.1/bobcat.1.jpg

Speaking of stump pullers, what's the status on your 502 c.i. engine for the '67?

 

[67HEAVEN]

Speaking of stump pullers, what's the status on your 502 c.i. engine for the '67?

The 502 will be the "PIÈCE DE RÉSISTANCE" so to speak. I'm using my old CE 427 bare block as a "dummy" to give me something to mate the new Richmond 5-speed up to.

That way, when the paint is done and the 502 crate arrives, I'll just have to "snatch" the 427 out and s..l..i..d..e that little ol' 502 in.

Why wait? Well I certainly don't need it yet. Patrick, when I started this project the Canadian dollar was at 62¢ American. Today? 71.8¢ And....it's going up a lot more.

When it hits 75¢ (as it soon will), that amounts to a savings of $1,300 (plus $195 tax) on a $US10,000 purchase.

 

[67Don]

Patrick, looking good. Don't spend the whole summer doing yard work. :bang

 

[John Mcgraw]

Thanks Rob,
I think you made a good decision! Even though I am a diehard C1 fanatic, a lot of my friends drive those later cars with the rear axles that are broken in the middle! There just was not enough traffic over in the C1 section to keep it interesting!
Regards, John McGraw

 

[vigman]

Just think of it as the following

There really C-2's with the IRS rusted into position!



LOL

Vig~

 

[iron cross]

These are all STINGRAYS! Where are all the little cars? The ones with trunks!

 

[67HEAVEN]

These are all STINGRAYS! Where are all the little cars? The ones with trunks!

Who's that IN THE TRUNK, Wally?

 

[Muttley]

LOL. Your photo library never ceases to amaze.

 

[iron cross]

Thanks to both of you! But WHERE are the Vettes with trunks? LOL

 

[58Mike]

Before I painted my '58, the trunk had become a home for stray cats. Took me months to get rid of all of them.

Neighbors saw my traps and got me busted. So I had to apply for a permit which carries not only a waiting period, but includes me notifying all neighbors within 100 yards (this is a commercial area in Hollywood) that I intend to trap cats. Boy, did I get phone calls then!

So here's your trunk, but it came at a price!

- Mike Greene