NSW Corvettes
General Discussion Area => Corvette Related Chat => Topic started by: Slingray on June 04, 2013, 10:42:19 PM
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Hi everyone,
I just wanted to say G'day and introduce myself, I had the pleasure of meeting many of the club members for the first time at tonights meeting and signing up as a NSW Corvettes member. My name is Scott I'm a 31 year old I.T. Consultant working for Adobe and I've been in love with the Corvette ever since a family holiday to the U.S. at age 5 and seeing a red C3 blow past of Australia's Wonderland. I'm, now old enough and ugly enough to afford my dream car and was recently fortunate enough to find an 78 Pace Car Edition (#117) with a 38k miles on the clock and in a well maintained yet original condition and couldn't help but stretch the bank account and buy the car. I haven't left the garage since.
I'm really looking forward to the next Rally and getting out and seeing everyone's cars and enjoying a drive with the best of the best American muscle cars ever made.
Thanks,
Scott
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My baby
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Welcome to the club Scott. Congrat’s on the purchase of the 78. Nice ride. :thumb:
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Very smart looking Pace Car
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Nice welcome along
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Great to meet you last night Scott. Welcome aboard to you and your very neat looking '78.
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Hi Scott the vette looks great even better to drive no doubt !!!
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Very nice Scott, welcome to a great club. Enjoy
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good looking vett
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Greetings Scott.
That Pace car paint design does stand out
She looks good
Bfit
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(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cO95F8_Jwss/UHCMat3nHWI/AAAAAAAADzk/s7u5IMjxS5Y/s1600/great+scott!.png)
A lovely looking car!
Be sure to take it out to a few meets.
s
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78 Pace Car Edition (#117) with a 38k miles on the clock and in a well maintained yet original condition
Nice looking car Scott, I look forward to seeing a true survivor.
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Nice ride, congrats
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Thanks a lot everyone for the warm welcome, I'm excited to be a member of the club and have been sporting my Corvette NSW polo shirt like there's no tomorrow. I've just been made aware of the 12month cooling off period before I can club reg the car so I won't be joining you for any runs with the car until that time unfortunately but am really can't wait to get out and see everyone else's machines and be a part of the a run.
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Scott
You could go full rego
There is not to many changes to the car and you can keep it looking original .
Bfit
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Scott, I've sent you a PM
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I've just been made aware of the 12 month cooling off period before I can club reg the car
That depends on the club, you could try ringing around a few clubs to see what their requirements are, basically any US car club or even hot rod clubs.
s
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That depends on the club, you could try ringing around a few clubs to see what their requirements are, basically any US car club or even hot rod clubs.
s
Toungue in cheek
The NSW RTA & affiliates
accepts just about any car even ford
Bfit
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The NSW RTA & affiliates accepts just about any car even ford
Some clubs have requirements, one wants you to attend at least 3 of their shows, as mentioned above one wants a year cooling off, I know one that won't accept 17 inch wheels because their car only came out with 15's max., they said they may let 16 slide but 17 is out of the question. When I asked why they said, let's say someone from another club reports the car, they could have their historic club licence suspended. The RTA does specify the car must be as close as original as possible and it just depends on the club as to what they deem to be 'close'.
Here's a list of NSW clubs.
http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/registration/downloads/vehiclesheet/historic_vehicle_clubs_policy.pdf (http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/registration/downloads/vehiclesheet/historic_vehicle_clubs_policy.pdf)
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Scott
Did you buy her local or out of the US
Has it had any to the required work done to get it on the road?
Some of the requirements are quite draconian in nature
And some are just straight up safety issues.
Never the less we have to abide by the law.
Seat belt, head light and indicators need to comply and rightly so.
You don’t want some one running in to your rear, because they don’t get the American system on brake and indicator system.
And there is a tire depending on how does the inspection you may have to change those.
To Australian rated tires, if the types have been sitting on the car for 25/30 years then you are back to the safety thing again.
Any think you need to know just post it and you will be swamped with info.
Bfit
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You don’t want some one running in to your rear, because they don’t get the American system on brake and indicator system.
They will allow red blinkers but I really don't get how someone can hit you in the rear, if you're blinking they're more likely to notice a brake light than a blinker light.
My guess is they weren't concentrating, on their phone, etc. and use it as an excuse to try to claim it wasn't their fault.
s
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They will allow red blinkers but I really don't get how someone can hit you in the rear, if you're blinking they're more likely to notice a brake light than a blinker light.
My guess is they weren't concentrating, on their phone, etc. and use it as an excuse to try to claim it wasn't their fault.
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take into consideration that a high percentage of colour blindness involves the red spectrum
and when it is combined with the back ground colour of the car it may not be seen at all
depending of various condition.
It may suit most of us who are keen on American vehicles to leave them as imported .
Then there are quite a few Australians who don't give a ___T what we think
Then the government steps in and sets the standard.
Bfit
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take into consideration that a high percentage of colour blindness involves the red spectrum
True and most colourblind people have trouble differentiating between red and green.
Do you know how they overcome this with traffic lights?
Next time you look at a set of lights you will notice a tinge of yellow has been added to the red, the one in this pic is almost orange.
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8095/8476905343_d7c35b704f_z.jpg)
Orange lights are basically yellow.
(https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUyOUV9KsHaV7DBUwLcTFJ-4HQQbdqa9gPfcOh6-aKV2QbBmst)
They also did the same with green lights, look closely and you'll see a tinge of blue has been added to the green.
(http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200711/r196707_748817.jpg)
Thus colourblind people are actually spotting the differences between orange, yellow and blue.
Not sure if it was done back in the 60's and 70's but I suspect today's brake lights would be the same.
Even still, a flashing light whether orange or red would still be visible from behind.
s
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Yes mate that is correct
the problem with traffic lights is compounded by the black background
it was found in the 60s that children were having problem seeing red and green on black boards
the combinations caused the problem.
and now those finding are being applied in our cars etc
Bfit
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it was found in the 60s that children were having problem seeing red and green on black boards
Ah, so that's why they're green these days, easier on the eyes.
I also recall my high school back in the late 80's was doing all their printing on light green sheets instead of white, they said it was more relaxing for the students.
s
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Mate I cant comment on that one
I was out of high! school in the 60s
I actually enjoyed those school days
every day was a challenge to see just what you could do the irritate the teachers
Bfit
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Back to the original topic......... Great ride Scott. Hope you can come to an arrangement so we get to see that beautiful C3 up close soon. Naturally as a member you are always welcome to join us in the 'shopping trolley'.
Regarding colour blindness and traffic lights. The conversation is steeped in ignorance and BS. First hand knowledge. :grr: :laugh:
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Thanks all for making me feel very welcome. At present I am looking at preparing the car for full registration and evaluating the work required to pass the 1972 ADR requirements.
The car has held Club rego in Victoria and as such it hasn't had any compliance work done to it thus far. From my research I've compiled the following list of modifications required to compliance a C3 in NSW, you may be able to comment on some of these items, your experience is greatly appreciated.
Here's my list:
I'm going to perform a rear tail light re-wire, swapping the reverse lights for amber blinkers and re-wiring accordingly. I will then fit a small LED strip light above the license plate and wire it up to acts as a reverse light.
I believe I need to fit different low beam lenses so that they dip to the left.
I believe I also need to fit additional turn signals to the front end. Do you know if this is normally performed by installing small additional lights and housings into the front bumper or is there a better method?
I also believe I will need to swap the seat belts for ADR complianced belts.
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Seat belts talk to Geoff ( sirfixalot this forum )
On the front low beam lens change
And a white clearance / park light . You can fit it behind the grill or in the original indicator lens with a divider so you have amber and white in the on lens ( that will keep the original look )
The back is as you indicated, will give a good result
You can fit extra light to the original reversing lens To keep that original look on the rear
Bfit