NSW Corvettes
Technical Tips => Pre 84 => Topic started by: johnny86convert on May 21, 2003, 06:38:48 PM
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just got the latest package from my favourite shop in the world............I got two little black books, one original colour dealer brochure for my 88 conv and low and behold the a copy of the original shipping document with all the options and even the date and time and the final dealer it went too......................sorry for being vette obsessed but just had to share my good fortune ;););););)
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I'm impressed! and dare I say it you are too!!! Good for you Fella! ;35
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thanks dave, hope we meet someday mate ;);)
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I guess I can possibly to held to blame for not introducing you two guys at Canberra on the track day. Dave was the guy with the silly smile on his dial and water dripping out of every orifice.....from his car that is.:22
That skid pan looked like fun....I still have the video too Dave.
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The skid pan was fun, tho I'm still cleaning muck from my Corvette as a result. Can't wait to see your vid of all the stuff you got Brutus. It was a really good weekend I had there in Canberra, missed most of the night life put on by the Canberra Club, but managed to catch up with loads of old friends from school instead. :drink
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Dave....what year vette have you got...tell me about it ;););)
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It is quite a story John. I bought it in 2000 after playing too many playstation games! No really I have always loved American cars and always thought a Corvette was way out of my league, until... I met a bloke who imports wrecks, I was actually after a Comaro, and he says come and look at his wrecked Corvettes, all in various states of dismemberment and ofcourse LHD. I bought a 1979 LHD with no engine or gearbox. It was stuffed! Literally with spiders and mould and junk. The first few months of having it in my garage most of my friends and to a certain extent myself, all thought I was quite mad! I'm not bad with a spanner and thought I would do some of the conversion myself, other bits by professionals. I got quotes and was horrified at the costs involved. I'd worked hard to get a mortgage and I wasn't going to give that up! I then, by more luck than anthing else, met a really good bloke who I can honestly say is one of my best friends now. He had converted two C3's in his garage, turned up at my place after work one day with some oxy acetaline equipment and started cutting holes in my beloved Corvette! He said "Now you have started!" And he was right, I decided it was no good fearing that "ghost in the machine" and to do the job, no matter how long it would take. The rest is history, I converted it, had it engineered and registered, and more recently painted it myself! Am I proud? You bet I am!!! I have done all the work on my 79 Corvette (except for wheel alignments and I had the dizzy regraphed recently!) I love these Corvettes, no matter what year!!!! Can't get enough of them, and I don't mind helping others with theirs and hearing other peoples stories and things they get for theirs. Like the documentation you recently managed to get your hands on!!
I got flogged in every drag race at Canberra, didn't care! I found out recently Corvettes of my ilk have a stall converter of 2200rpm (correct me if I am wrong!) When I put the transmission in mine I had never had a care with auto so knew nothing about them, so put a standard one in which from memory is a 1200rpm stall. So it bogs down a bit off the mark.
I am dreaming of some new heads as the bottom end of the motor is pretty tuff. 4 bolt mains and flat top pistons. A lot of people reckon ya don't need four bolt mains on a street engine, but I did 'cause I felt like it!
Hope you like my story!:22:drink:22
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dave.........THAT WAS A GREAT STORY MATE...BIG CONGRATS.......after doing a body of resto on my last vette ( 71 big block ) with enormous amounts of help from mates I know how proud you should feel ;););););)
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I still reckon Dave deserves an encouragement award!:o
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Cheers Guys any encouragement goes along way and really appreciate the help I got from my friends. Although a lot of them are not into Corvettes I punished them lots!!! After getting it on the road nearly two years ago, some friends reckon they have only just started talking to me again!!!! Why I otta!!
Johnny - how long did the body off resto take? Now that is a big job, well worth bragging about!! ;35
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Sounds like I need to have a Corvette day at my place soon so everyone can free their soul and eat BBQ snags....sorry the pool is a bit cool right now, but I could fire up the spa instead.:20
You should see the gathering of cars here on the weekend with just my son's mates here. It's gotta be my turn soon.:b2
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bob..wait till black beauty is ready and a barby we will go heheheheheh........DM it took five frustrating,late nights, copious amount of swearing, too much money and we just about replaced, rebiult, re panel beated,re ordered, re chromed, re cleaned the whole bloody thing, in the end I quite hated the car, but then fell in love with her,YEARS I hope the c4 coming treats me better....please please please vettegod be nice to me lolololololololol
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Five bleedin' hearted Years John? Now that is a very big effort!! Wish I'd been there to see it!!!
Brutus - Stop teasing me, lets do it soon!!!! Heheheheh hahahaha:22;34;laugh:22;laugh;34
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;34...tomorrow then.:b2
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:o it!!
I'm going to Bella Vista, Iwas hoping you were too!! Put you in a wheel chair and it's the only time I'd get to push you around!! :20
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Looks like too much rain for either at the moment. I hope it's a lot drier for you at the show than it is here right now. 6.00am and it's persistantly precipitating here by the bucket load.