How my C2 with a silver lining may have been heaven sent.
12-28-2012, 06:09 PM
#1
How my C2 with a silver lining may have been heaven sent.
Trying this post pic thing for the first time.
Thanks everyone for all your help with the hi beam issue.
Here's a few pics as promised. That is if I did this link right below.
In 72 (I was 5) my dad took me to the Chevy dealer. He asked if I liked the blue or silver Vette better. I liked the silver and he bought it.
He really wanted a 63 to 67 but wanted a new car with a warranty.
A few years back after my dad passed on New Year's Eve day, the car was in his garage with 29k original miles but the original tires were stuck to the floor and it hadn't been registered in about 20 years.
I took it to Dick Guldstrand (Corvette racing legend) and with his help I got it back up and running.
I regret it but ended up selling it. Being it had every receipt, dealer contracts, slide pictures of the day it came home plus slides of a neighbor's silver C2 near it that he really wanted etc, the first guy to show up already had a cashier's check in my name for full price.
A couple years go by and one night I wake up at about two a.m. and can't sleep so I turned on the computer.
That's when I came across this 1963 online about two minutes after it was posted online in the middle of the night.
I couldn't resist and sent an email with my number to call me ASAP first thing in the morning. Well, the call came. Turns out a friend I hadn't seen in about 10 years owned it. He's a TV personality and really didn't want strangers coming to his house but he had to get rid of it as a 65 Shelby clone Mustang was on the way and his wife would flip out if another classic car showed up. So, he just needed the Vette gone and the Mustang sitting in its place when she looked in the garage.
I was just happy to reconnect and said I'd drive over for breakfast if nothing else.
Then, there she was, all in tact, engine casting codes correct, but an odd color combo. A 1970s Red paint job, dark blue interior and American Racing Mags.
As his Mustang delivery got closer and closer, I drove off in the Corvette.
Then, it sat in my garage for a few months. Finally, I got around to "playing" with it, looking up her numbers etc.
Turns out she was originally silver blue and was made on New Year's Eve day in 1962. What a coincidence is that? My dad wanted a 63 to 67 Vette but opted for a new one in 1972 so it'd have a warranty. He had me chose between the silver or blue Vette. And, he passed on a New Year's Eve day. And, the 63 was currently owned by someone I had lost touch with ten years earlier.
I've enjoyed her as she was but about a year ago started to put her back the way she is supposed to be.
Thanks everyone for all your help with the hi beam issue.
Here's a few pics as promised. That is if I did this link right below.
In 72 (I was 5) my dad took me to the Chevy dealer. He asked if I liked the blue or silver Vette better. I liked the silver and he bought it.
He really wanted a 63 to 67 but wanted a new car with a warranty.
A few years back after my dad passed on New Year's Eve day, the car was in his garage with 29k original miles but the original tires were stuck to the floor and it hadn't been registered in about 20 years.
I took it to Dick Guldstrand (Corvette racing legend) and with his help I got it back up and running.
I regret it but ended up selling it. Being it had every receipt, dealer contracts, slide pictures of the day it came home plus slides of a neighbor's silver C2 near it that he really wanted etc, the first guy to show up already had a cashier's check in my name for full price.
A couple years go by and one night I wake up at about two a.m. and can't sleep so I turned on the computer.
That's when I came across this 1963 online about two minutes after it was posted online in the middle of the night.
I couldn't resist and sent an email with my number to call me ASAP first thing in the morning. Well, the call came. Turns out a friend I hadn't seen in about 10 years owned it. He's a TV personality and really didn't want strangers coming to his house but he had to get rid of it as a 65 Shelby clone Mustang was on the way and his wife would flip out if another classic car showed up. So, he just needed the Vette gone and the Mustang sitting in its place when she looked in the garage.
I was just happy to reconnect and said I'd drive over for breakfast if nothing else.
Then, there she was, all in tact, engine casting codes correct, but an odd color combo. A 1970s Red paint job, dark blue interior and American Racing Mags.
As his Mustang delivery got closer and closer, I drove off in the Corvette.
Then, it sat in my garage for a few months. Finally, I got around to "playing" with it, looking up her numbers etc.
Turns out she was originally silver blue and was made on New Year's Eve day in 1962. What a coincidence is that? My dad wanted a 63 to 67 Vette but opted for a new one in 1972 so it'd have a warranty. He had me chose between the silver or blue Vette. And, he passed on a New Year's Eve day. And, the 63 was currently owned by someone I had lost touch with ten years earlier.
I've enjoyed her as she was but about a year ago started to put her back the way she is supposed to be.
Last edited by C2Dean; 12-29-2012 at 01:46 PM.
12-28-2012, 06:14 PM
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neat story good luck with the car
12-28-2012, 07:02 PM
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Great story, tremendous car! It was just meant to be yours!
12-28-2012, 09:50 PM
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Enjoyed reading your story and seeing a really nice looking Vette. Drive the miles and you get the smiles! Dennis
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12-29-2012, 01:41 AM
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Nice story, love that color of silver....what the name of it?
I also followed the problem you were/are having loading pics to post...
Photobucket allows you to load a whole album if you want....just drag what you want into the 'named folder' and they upload...
I also followed the problem you were/are having loading pics to post...
Photobucket allows you to load a whole album if you want....just drag what you want into the 'named folder' and they upload...
12-29-2012, 08:44 AM
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story color and yearand welcome to the forum
12-29-2012, 12:07 PM
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Thanks everyone for the compliments. Except for the paint job (the shop did an amazing job removing all the red paint back to the original coat of blue, then priming her, block sanding her, then base coat, clear coats, color sand, buff, another clear coat and final color sand and buff) but I did all the rest pulling off everything, gutting the interior, putting it in and back together etc. Not sure of forum rules on promoting or mentioning body shops, but if you're in Southern California and want to know, just ask. I've known this shop with the same classic car loving owner since I was a teenager, a few decades ago!
I think of all the already classic "springtime yellow" 60s Mustangs, "Pumpkin Orange" 240z's, etc that were perfect and original when I got them in my younger years and how I basically destroyed them by changing colors, adding flairs, mags etc. So, this is my payback homage to those cars and the collectors who ended up with them scratching their heads thinking, "What kid screwed this amazing car up" as they put it back to how it was.
Not to say I don't still love to look at the Resto mods of all vehicles etc. But, at this point, I'm back to the originality if it's in my garage.
I think of all the already classic "springtime yellow" 60s Mustangs, "Pumpkin Orange" 240z's, etc that were perfect and original when I got them in my younger years and how I basically destroyed them by changing colors, adding flairs, mags etc. So, this is my payback homage to those cars and the collectors who ended up with them scratching their heads thinking, "What kid screwed this amazing car up" as they put it back to how it was.
Not to say I don't still love to look at the Resto mods of all vehicles etc. But, at this point, I'm back to the originality if it's in my garage.
12-29-2012, 12:52 PM
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Melting Slicks
Beautiful car and great story. Hope to meet you one day, I'm in the SFV area, and attend a lot of car events. I have a saddle tan '64 hardtop.
Bruce
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12-29-2012, 12:58 PM
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Thanks. I've been meaning to head over to Bob's Big Boy in Toluca Lake on a Friday night.
I haven't been in years.
We used to go there all the time when I was a kid. Was such a treat as the waitresses would come up on roller skates.
Keep me posted on like events around the SFV and LA.
I haven't been in years.
We used to go there all the time when I was a kid. Was such a treat as the waitresses would come up on roller skates.
Keep me posted on like events around the SFV and LA.
