Red C1's hard to beat, in a show
09-15-2014, 07:21 PM
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You need to take to a machine shop or have a friend with a lathe. The hub, as you have found out, is to big right at the brake drum area. There needs to be about .010 machine off of hub in that area for the wheel to clear. Also you have to modified the grease cap as it will bottom out in the adapter. What I have are the bolt on knock offs by corvette America. Not sure what you would have to do if you have the original style knock offs. And no, you do not weaken the hub by removing the extra material. After we turn the hubs we mick them and it's still about .250 thick which is plenty strong.
As far as car color. If I was in a show room in 1962 buying a 62 corvette, I would go with the fawn color.I think it is the sharpest color of any vett, any year. My car has fawn interior and I like it. You do not see many fawn cars. I guess the guys back then thought it was to girlie looking.
As far as car color. If I was in a show room in 1962 buying a 62 corvette, I would go with the fawn color.I think it is the sharpest color of any vett, any year. My car has fawn interior and I like it. You do not see many fawn cars. I guess the guys back then thought it was to girlie looking.
09-15-2014, 11:45 PM
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Now to me the black wall tires and dishes do not look that good. But it appears your car is a fulie so maybe that's what the car is suppose to have. As far as the knock offs being out of place, I would have to disagreed. I think they make the car look sharp. But it's good that we all have different tastes and respect each others taste. If we all liked the same thing it would really drive the prices up even higher then what they are. And speaking of prices I was with the 60 owner when a person asked him how much he had been offer for his car. He said he turned down 100K. Now that's where I think 2 fools met, one for offering, the other for turning it down.
My C2 was born Riverside Red, it's now Porsche Guards Red (not so "orangey") and will be some other color eventually. My favorite C2 color is Saddle Tan, maybe I'll go with that. Or Fawn Beige, have to see 'em side-by-side in sunlight.
OTOH, many of the young hot rodders I know whe are doing '60s GM cars seem to be using late-'90s Ford SUV colors!
09-16-2014, 08:30 AM
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Sorry, didn't mean to put down your car at all, it is VERY classy looking! i can imagine it at night, pulling up in front of a Playboy Club when they were the hot new thing. Have always liked Honduras Maroon on any early '60s Chevy product, can you say Monza convertible?
My C2 was born Riverside Red, it's now Porsche Guards Red (not so "orangey") and will be some other color eventually. My favorite C2 color is Saddle Tan, maybe I'll go with that. Or Fawn Beige, have to see 'em side-by-side in sunlight.
OTOH, many of the young hot rodders I know whe are doing '60s GM cars seem to be using late-'90s Ford SUV colors!
My C2 was born Riverside Red, it's now Porsche Guards Red (not so "orangey") and will be some other color eventually. My favorite C2 color is Saddle Tan, maybe I'll go with that. Or Fawn Beige, have to see 'em side-by-side in sunlight.
OTOH, many of the young hot rodders I know whe are doing '60s GM cars seem to be using late-'90s Ford SUV colors!
09-16-2014, 08:36 AM
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There is just a deep-seated, primordial response to the color red - even the shade of red. Folks hustle right by my original Riverside Red SWC to ogle my forum pal (Mark6669) blindingly red (Viper Red) SWC restomod. No surprise there at all.
09-16-2014, 04:15 PM
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Gray is good....
09-16-2014, 05:57 PM
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09-17-2014, 04:03 PM
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I was torn between a 1961 with the white coves and a 1962 without. I ended up liking the 1962 a bit more, it's a little cleaner looking in my opinion and then, of course, there's that 327. I purposely did not want a red C1 . . . My C6 convertible is red, and that's enough for me. Once my wife saw a Fawn Beige car,, that was pretty much it.
09-18-2014, 06:59 AM
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Although I too love the fawn beige, I couldn't go wrong in choosing the newer Torch Red with Shoreline Beige coves for my 56. I flipped back and forth between the white coves and the original shoreline beige and now I am satisfied with the choice, it just sets it off differently:
09-18-2014, 09:43 AM
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I think the truest test for any of us is actually pretty simple . . . And I found myself doing it yesterday afternoon. Just finished a few little jobs on the '62, pulled a lawn chair out into the driveway and sat looking at it for a minute. My thoughts: "Yeah - that's exactly the look I wanted".
It's your car. You bought it to please yourself, not everyone else. Make sure that it does, and you'll never regret it. Not everyone may agree with your choices, and that's fine. As my grandfather used to say, "It's good that we all like different things, or every man in the world would be after your grandmother!"
It's your car. You bought it to please yourself, not everyone else. Make sure that it does, and you'll never regret it. Not everyone may agree with your choices, and that's fine. As my grandfather used to say, "It's good that we all like different things, or every man in the world would be after your grandmother!"
09-18-2014, 10:30 AM
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09-18-2014, 11:24 AM
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Here in L.A., whitewalls are rare on anything but gorgeous old "classics" like our cars. With almost everybody buying blackwalls anyway, I think they cost at least as much, assuming you can even GET some modern sizes in whites.
But the other day I saw a gentleman driving a new silver Chrysler with low profile Vogues (expensive classic "pimpmobile" sculptured whitewalls with a gold stripe outside). It looked GREAT, really stood out from the crowd. He was an old guy, but the tide may turn yet again.
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09-18-2014, 11:27 AM
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09-18-2014, 02:32 PM
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In almost five decades of driving a C2 on blackwalls, I've watched tire fashion go from wide whites to skinny whites to color stripes to blackwalls, led by the Europeans. It took Detroit several years to phase whitewalls out of their brochure pictures.
Here in L.A., whitewalls are rare on anything but gorgeous old "classics" like our cars. With almost everybody buying blackwalls anyway, I think they cost at least as much, assuming you can even GET some modern sizes in whites.
But the other day I saw a gentleman driving a new silver Chrysler with low profile Vogues (expensive classic "pimpmobile" sculptured whitewalls with a gold stripe outside). It looked GREAT, really stood out from the crowd. He was an old guy, but the tide may turn yet again.
Here in L.A., whitewalls are rare on anything but gorgeous old "classics" like our cars. With almost everybody buying blackwalls anyway, I think they cost at least as much, assuming you can even GET some modern sizes in whites.
But the other day I saw a gentleman driving a new silver Chrysler with low profile Vogues (expensive classic "pimpmobile" sculptured whitewalls with a gold stripe outside). It looked GREAT, really stood out from the crowd. He was an old guy, but the tide may turn yet again.
09-18-2014, 11:26 PM
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