As Built at St Louis???

[Richard M.]

Anyone here loose a pencil in March of 1959?........

After removing the nose of "Bride of Frankenstein"...more pics here:

http://home.comcast.net/~richmz/site/?/page/1959_Corvette_Restoration_Project_-_Part_2

I noticed this artifact of the body build. Someone left it on the little shelf before attaching the side fender. If you own it let me know and I'll send it to you.

Also took some photos of views you don't normally see..... of the fender and rocker reinforcements. These are aluminum, which changed to steel later in the MY. On the long rocker reinforcement, there are a combination of spaced code characters in red stencil. It appears to be reading:

Reynolds
Aluminum * AN - 327 6061 - T6 QQ -A

or something close like that.

Rich

[Alan S.]

Re: As Built at St Louis???

Hi Rich,
I guess you should be careful how you use the pencil so you don't wear it out. I doubt if it's being made in reproduction.
I enjoyed looking at your site! What INCREDIBLE LINES on "Baby Bootlegger"!!!!
My wife has a nephew in Holland Michigan who restores classic boats also. He's part of a business named The Wooden Runabout. Seeing your projects reminded me very much of what I see him working on.
Regards,
Alan

[Richard M.]

Re: As Built at St Louis???

Oh, yea.....a wooden BOAT= Bring Out Another Thousand. I like old wooden boats as much as Corvettes, but my heart is in the fiberglass(cars that is)......easier to get in one and go for a spin. Boats are fun too but harder to have fun with, don't have windshield wipers, and can sink. Almost lost a 22' '48 Chris Craft Sportsman in a lake that had been in salt water earlier in it's life. The prop shaft log silicon bronze screws turned into nails from electrolysis.

I couldn't read a date code or manufacturers stamp on the pencil, but I doubt it's a service replacement. I'm thinking of leaving it in there for posterity when I install the new front end fg.

Rich

[Paul J.]

Re: As Built at St Louis???

Rich,

Bring Out Another Thousand...perfect. I was discussing a boat with one of our attorneys several years ago (he entertained us on his boat a lot), when he said " so you think you want a boat, well you need to be sure. Put on your best casual clothes, turn the cold water on in the shower and step in, then start flushing dollar bills down the toilet. If none of this affects you, then go buy a boat."

Paul

P.S. A consultant friend once gave me an instructional computer game dealing with tricky boat manuevers, like moving in strong currents near the dock and riding the swells through a shallow channel. Every time you bounced the boat off the dock it went "cha-ching!"