dogfish246

Would you say this is going to be one of the hardest, if not hardest parts of the build (putting the fame and body together)?

Vette Daddy

The good part of this car is that the main cage was not bent. Only the A and B pillars. The measurements were identical to the bare C4 frame that I am using for steel parts. This has been the most time consuming part of the re-building of the main structure.

Vette Daddy

Randy, did you sell your car and buy another?

C-4 Now

Great thread. Really interesting watching an important piece of Corvette history being brought back to being a complete car!!!

CRUZN C4

Aww sweet!

phrogs

And if I remember that vert wasn't a wide body car and he wanted over $200K for it!

phrogs

Looking great I love to see cars come back to life again so sweet!

Z51JEFF

When the word got out Brett was close to buying a car some thought this was the one.I do remember people stating the guy was going to have it for awhile.From the pictures it didnt look anywhere as bad as the Coupes from the U.K.

1985 Corvette

Sticky this thread.

CRUZN C4

russell7088

hey brett thought i would stop by and say hi and that we are loving the 90 keep the pics coming and again i can meet with you for any help if needed, the 90 has a full tank ready to go cant wait till may the wife and I will be there the whole time I hope were gonna bring the tent and camp somewhere.

again i am glad we could work together on the deal and bring back this wonderful piece of history

Vette Daddy

Everything will work out just great with the donor car being blue/blue. All of the interior pieces will be perfect. Your old 87 will be empty as can be once I strip the complete interior and load it into the ZR1.

The deal we made was just perfect.

vette54728702

Brett, Maybe I missed it in a post somewhere, but is 1988 ZR1 Prototype a wide body? I was reading where some early prototypes were not widebodies.... just curious.

Vette Daddy

All true prototypes were wide bodies. These were the 88 cars. The hand full of 86 development mules were narrow body "mules" for the LT5 engine early development.

86 were narrow body test mules
88 were King Of The Hill prototypes with EX numbers. No vins
89 were pre-production ZR1's with vin numbers

ZR-71

Just curious. Were those early wide bodies using the new designed convex bumpers or were they still the early concave bumpers in wide body style? If so, they would be EXTREMELY rare bumpers

Vette Daddy

The bumpers for any of the King of the Hill cars and 89 ZR1's wore the convex bumpers, as all ZR1's had. The narrow body 86 mule cars used the stock 86 bumpers.

I'm by no means an expert on the ZR1's. Just learning as I go.

Vette Daddy

Took a break long enough to work on my 17x11 rear ZR1 wheels this morning. They cleaned up pretty well. I mounted the gatorbacks that were donated to me for the rebuild. They still have decent tread left. They will look good for display purposes only. You wouldn't want to drive on them at high speed or anything. They have 1990 dates on them.

phrogs

You mean this car?

I hate to say it but its right up there with the UK cars other than it might have escaped some weather.

Z51JEFF

Thats the one.This car looks like it wasn't crushed,just mangled abit.

Vette Daddy

What's the origin and story on this conv? I just tried to read the plaque and see that it was at Lotus as well. I'll ask Geoff about it.