Found the tank sticker!!
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Burning Brakes
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St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'10-'11-'12-'13
Found the tank sticker!!
I decided to pull the gas tank today to clean everything up back there and paint the frame. Look what I found when I removed the spare tire cover.
I could see a corner of it!!!!!
Here it is after I dropped the tank.
Wahoo!! I can read it!!!!
I could see a corner of it!!!!!
Here it is after I dropped the tank.
Wahoo!! I can read it!!!!
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One of the top Corvette salesman in Omaha in the mid '70s was a guy named Steve Hard at John Kraft Chevrolet.
I wonder if he sold this one.............................
I wonder if he sold this one.............................
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Congratulations!!
Just curious. Is your car a '73 or later? I've read where the tank sticker format changed beginning with the '73 models. Went from 8 1/2 x 11 portrait format to 8 1/2 x 11 landscape. You sticker is landscape format.
Just curious. Is your car a '73 or later? I've read where the tank sticker format changed beginning with the '73 models. Went from 8 1/2 x 11 portrait format to 8 1/2 x 11 landscape. You sticker is landscape format.
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St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'10-'11-'12-'13
Yes, it is a '73. Build date is 12/01/72.
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Nope. John Kraft is long gone.....
Hopefully Steve is still around somewhere! This guy drove Corvettes only, and he would order a new one every year. Always a white 4-speed that had every option possible........
Hopefully Steve is still around somewhere! This guy drove Corvettes only, and he would order a new one every year. Always a white 4-speed that had every option possible........
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St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'10-'11-'12
...kind of odd.
947 is Elkhart Green, yet on there it says "947...........47 Dk Green"
...what color is your car??? Is it Elkhart Green or Blue/Green???
947 is Elkhart Green, yet on there it says "947...........47 Dk Green"
...what color is your car??? Is it Elkhart Green or Blue/Green???
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St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'10-'11-'12
...nice car, just different that it says Dk Green on the tank sticker....also, be careful about posting "too good of a pic" of your tank sticker. In the upper left(at least your's is folded over there)are your door and ignition key codes. One only needs these "codes" to have keys made to YOUR car. Be careful.
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...nice car, just different that it says Dk Green on the tank sticker....also, be careful about posting "too good of a pic" of your tank sticker. In the upper left(at least your's is folded over there)are your door and ignition key codes. One only needs these "codes" to have keys made to YOUR car. Be careful.
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Lucky guy. I just found mine still glued on top of the tank yesterday and can't read a thing on it. Anyone have an idea how to enhance the printing on a really dark, ugly, dirty tank sticker? The combination of gas, dirt, and 36 years made it useless --- unless there is some trick way to revive it. Maybe CSI Las Vegas could figure it out.
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Also, note the "830" scrawled onto the document. You may find correlating numbers scrawled onto body panel parts but its' believed the factory only went to 500. So this could be a reference to your VIN. Here's link to article I wrote published in the NCRS Restorer on the topic of build sheets.
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