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Drove mine today. Twentyeight degrees out this morning. Dark out (5:AM) off to the General Motors Indy stamping plant. Always a fun 22 miles to work. Second time this week. Gotta keep her in shape. I did notice the oil guage was pegged at almost 70 lbs. Thats higher than I remember it being. Dropped down to about 35 at idle. Got off work, took the T-Tops off and enjoyed the warm 50+ degree sunny weather. My 71sb purred like a kitten. I am going to learn to post pictures one of these days.
I've had my 68 since 1972 and now that I have completely restored it, I can honestly say that I enjoyed it more before I did the restoration.
Now I am afraid to drive the damn thing for fear that a rock will chip this or someone will scratch that. I put 1100 miles on it last summer but restoring it has taken the fun out of driving it. In hindsight, I wouldn't do it again.
Start driving, sure it was a shock driving a fresh out of the shop car into a Kentucky rain storm. The trip ruined my new top care tag and since then I've taken out a fender lip that bothers me every time I see it. I'm going to get around to trying a fix myself have plenty of paint left over.
But you know what my favorite car at any NCRS meet is the old beat up one with the warts and scars of driving. So I've thrown in the towel and look forward to the aging of my car into my twilight years.
I just hope in 2027 I can still get gas to take it out like some of you guys in your 70's do now.
Kurt I understand how you feel , but ask your self this if your planing on keeping it what is the enjoyment of owning it,( one or two awards) then your just saving it for some one els ! You said you restored it ,so if you start enjoying what you did why cant you do it again or just maintain it. The week after I totally restored my 55 we took a trip across country , that's why I did the 55 so that we could enjoy a new 55 on the trip. 22 years later and 100K miles more we keep the 55 looking as new as I could by caring for it and we still took a top flight in 05. If I was to sell it after 25 years of fun to get the bigga bucks what's 10 or 15K to me, I got more then that in enjoyment. 25 years was worth 15K to put a resale paint job on it. You only get ONE ride in life .
If I cant use my Corvette and other classics I don't wont them , I'm not spending 30K or more for a truck and 10K more for a trailer and the gas towing a Corvette around the country to just save it for some one els . But that's me , others do what turns them on! Driving a beautiful restored new Corvette is what turns me on.
Please don't take my statement as being mean or disrespectful
Fantastic looking vett and pic. Driving it is what it's all about, I saw it great vett I had a 57 FI Auto. p/w, p/t for 31 years I restored and drove the Sh**t out of it sold it 15 years ago for 68K that's how nice I kept it all original.
I remember my dad telling me stories about when he was in flight school in Colorado. He had a '64 fuelie that he had a spare rearend for. He'd drive it to and from Chicago with a 3:08 and change over to a 4:11 once he got to Denver. He used to tell me how he'd blow away 409's and such because the fuelies were the only things that really ran at altitude. He used to run the car at a track in Trinidad, Colorado (where he bought the car in the first place)and then switch rears and drive home for the holidays & stuff.
One of the best times I ever had....I had a set of Allen's Chambered exhaust pipes on my '70 LT-1..the car was rather loud, to say the least. Some kid pulled up next to me at a light in a Jap car with a garbage can size muffler and with the big bass just boomin' away. I had the tops off and the rear window out, and his bass was drowning out my 750rpm idle. So, I just gently revved it up slowly, and you know how around 3000, LT-1's just kinda come alive? The kid ended up rolling up his window and turned his radio down. Light turned green, I dumped the clutch at 3500, and he saw nothing but smoke. He didn't even try to keep up with me. It's the simple things in life that make it fun, ya know?
I had the same type of experience with my '64 365 coupe several years (hell I guess it's been more like 20 yrs ago). I was stopped at a red lite and beside me, this Must**g pulls up with a young guy who thinks he can whip anything on the road. Well being much older I poised myself to not let him even know I was paying any attention to him. The light changed green and he lets 'er rip, I wasn't even in the throttle and stayed even with him thru first gear. Then I put the hammer down for about 500 feet and then got out of it. At the next stop lite he pulled back up alongside and gave me the thumbs up. It wasn't a race,it was a demonstration.
I have a question about weight distribution in a 63 coupe. I used to drive a 110 mile round trip a couple days a week with the vette hauling lion cubs in an incubator. The journey included high speed interstate travel and miles of steep winding roads through the hills of north Jersey. I found the best placement for the cubs and incubator was up against the rear bulkhead and shifted slightly to the right for best balance. Has anyone had a similar experince with weight distribution in a coupe?
As an aside, my journey would include a ritual stop at a Sunoco station where the owner had an original daytona blue 63 coupe with, from what I could tell, was a 65 FI unit. I got to be friends with him and later heard he sold the car in the late 70s. Well, 25 years later and half a state away I'm interviewing a women for an admin position and she sees my corvette photo and we start talking. Turns out she and her hubby once owned that blue coupe. Thats a coincidence in a state more densely populated than Bangalore.
Then there was the run up the parkway with the shotgun in the back when the lions got loose but that's another story and inappropriate for this venue.
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