Mine just went to storage and I am needing a corvette fix!!!

[brotharon]

Hello.

I am moving because the military is sending me to some training for a couple of years and rather than move my in-the-middle-of-a-restoration corvette all over the country I decided to put it into storage. I have been collecting up tips and ideas to add to my own ideas about how I want this car to look when it is done, and there are a ton of great ideas on this site so I decided to join up.

My car is a 1975 coupe with the base SB350 / TH400

I do not know what else to say other than that...I am trying to learn so I am reading what people who have been there are doing more than anything else.

PICTURES!!!

 

[mrvette]

Welcome to the motley crew.....

U R at the right site, as there isn't a stock vette in the crew.....

there is nothing stock about my '72 vert, from wheels to roof, nothing, at all...

:hi:

 

[SuperBuickGuy]

welcome - where in Washington?

 

[brotharon]

Thank you for the welcome.

If you couldn't tell...I am not planning a NCRS restoration on this car.

I am from the Lake Stevens area in Washington...just east of Everett, but I am currently living in Augusta, GA and am moving to Monterey, CA in about 6 weeks...

 

[mrvette]

Thank you for the welcome.

If you couldn't tell...I am not planning a NCRS restoration on this car.

I am from the Lake Stevens area in Washington...just east of Everett, but I am currently living in Augusta, GA and am moving to Monterey, CA in about 6 weeks...

Keep you moving, don't they???:huh2:

 

[brotharon]

Depends really. I have been stationed in Georgia for the past 4 years, but I have been deployed to various crapholes or away from home for conferences or training for much of that...so it is kind of a lose/lose situation. As long as I can get my vette past the restoration and on to the tinkering and fiddling stages before I retire I will be happy :banghead:

 

[SuperBuickGuy]

I'm in Woodinville - go to Lake Stevens all the time.... though I would like to discuss with you, sometime, why every trailer I've bought there (2) have had loose lug nuts on them.... seems odd, but perhaps you can shed some light on it?

2 years in California without your Corvette? that just seems wrong on several levels.... what does it need to be used there (besides an alarm and a contingent of Seals to protect it)?

 

[mrvette]

Depends really. I have been stationed in Georgia for the past 4 years, but I have been deployed to various crapholes or away from home for conferences or training for much of that...so it is kind of a lose/lose situation. As long as I can get my vette past the restoration and on to the tinkering and fiddling stages before I retire I will be happy :banghead:

Stay safe and keep your dreams alive.....:drink::thankyou::bestwishes:

 

[GT6Steve]

I was just offered a decent 79 for four grand, think I should get it? Transmission seal leak and bad AC...:drink:

 

[brotharon]

I'm in Woodinville - go to Lake Stevens all the time.... though I would like to discuss with you, sometime, why every trailer I've bought there (2) have had loose lug nuts on them.... seems odd, but perhaps you can shed some light on it?

2 years in California without your Corvette? that just seems wrong on several levels.... what does it need to be used there (besides an alarm and a contingent of Seals to protect it)?

LOL, I have no clue why the trailers have loose lugs...maybe it is a ploy to keep you performing preventative maintenance on trailers?

I stripped the entire interior out of the vette...and didnt have the time or resources available to get it back together before the time came to leave. I also have no desire to use my vette as a daily driver.

BTW, are we talking Navy SEALs or harbor seals?

 

[SuperBuickGuy]

I'm in Woodinville - go to Lake Stevens all the time.... though I would like to discuss with you, sometime, why every trailer I've bought there (2) have had loose lug nuts on them.... seems odd, but perhaps you can shed some light on it?

2 years in California without your Corvette? that just seems wrong on several levels.... what does it need to be used there (besides an alarm and a contingent of Seals to protect it)?

LOL, I have no clue why the trailers have loose lugs...maybe it is a ploy to keep you performing preventative maintenance on trailers?

I stripped the entire interior out of the vette...and didnt have the time or resources available to get it back together before the time came to leave. I also have no desire to use my vette as a daily driver.

BTW, are we talking Navy SEALs or harbor seals?

Dunno either can be quite annoying if provoked, in any case, you're probably better at judging the effectiveness of either
I hear you about the not wanting to use it as a DD, my first was a 74 that I sold mostly because I figured if I used it as college transportation in Seattle, it'd be stolen

 

[mrvette]

When I bought my '72 and doing the console/HVAC/cruise/built in GD opener/injection, I also built in a Garage Door receiver, so it works a latch relay, the car will not start until I activate a GD opener remote button....

it pulls power from a computer wire, none of my computer wiring is stock colors, and so all the wiring involving that theft system is one color,

so even IF they find the setup they going to have to be a GOOD ET to jumper it.....much quicker to steal it with a hook.....

:banghead::ill::evil::club:

 

[GT6Steve]

I was just offered a decent 79 for four grand, think I should get it? Transmission seal leak and bad AC...:drink:

That didn't come out right; Do you want it for your time in California?

 

[brotharon]

I was just offered a decent 79 for four grand, think I should get it? Transmission seal leak and bad AC...:drink:

That didn't come out right; Do you want it for your time in California?

Uhhhhh...uhhhhh...:sos::crap::crap:

No thanks, I will just take my daily driver and my motorcycle with me and look at pictures of my vette. It will give me time to figure out how to go about installing the 79 vette dash and console that I bought into the 75.

Oh, and MrVette, that sounds like quite a bit of electronic wizardry you have put in place to keep your car from being stolen. I think you are correct in assuming that most people would not go to the trouble of dealing with the nightmare of trying to hotwire around that...but they might break the window and take your stereo :2nd:

 

[SuperBuickGuy]

I was just offered a decent 79 for four grand, think I should get it? Transmission seal leak and bad AC...:drink:

That didn't come out right; Do you want it for your time in California?

Uhhhhh...uhhhhh...:sos::crap::crap:

No thanks, I will just take my daily driver and my motorcycle with me and look at pictures of my vette. It will give me time to figure out how to go about installing the 79 vette dash and console that I bought into the 75.

Oh, and MrVette, that sounds like quite a bit of electronic wizardry you have put in place to keep your car from being stolen. I think you are correct in assuming that most people would not go to the trouble of dealing with the nightmare of trying to hotwire around that...but they might break the window and take your stereo :2nd:

I can help you on this - my Corvette is rewired to a 77 dash

 

[mrvette]

I was just offered a decent 79 for four grand, think I should get it? Transmission seal leak and bad AC...:drink:

That didn't come out right; Do you want it for your time in California?

Uhhhhh...uhhhhh...:sos::crap::crap:

No thanks, I will just take my daily driver and my motorcycle with me and look at pictures of my vette. It will give me time to figure out how to go about installing the 79 vette dash and console that I bought into the 75.

Oh, and MrVette, that sounds like quite a bit of electronic wizardry you have put in place to keep your car from being stolen. I think you are correct in assuming that most people would not go to the trouble of dealing with the nightmare of trying to hotwire around that...but they might break the window and take your stereo :2nd:

:lol::2nd: It's a rag top, and I even removed the door locks.....sold the hardtop to it when I moved to Florida, as it just hung from the ceiling.....

:lol:

 

[brotharon]

I can help you on this - my Corvette is rewired to a 77 dash

Well, if you would like to do a write up on it that would be awesome...otherwise it will be a few years before I am reconnected with my vette so I would have to go to all of the trouble of finding you on a random web forum :lol:

Seriously though, I have a brand new 75 harness in the car, and I have most of the dash and console out of a 79...and a set of fiero seats. I am thinking about going with autometer gauges, but i think i am going to pull the body off the frame and make sure my birdcage and everything is good to go before I start dumping money into the interior.