why pick a Corvette?
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Safety Car
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From: Southern Indiana
why pick a Corvette?
Why, why, why of all cars a non car person picks to tinker with has to be a Corvette?
Then by the time they are done its 20 year junkyer than 1 month ago!
Why not a 77 Caprice, or 76 Nova?
The questions that come up on here just makes my skin crawl to think what else they have done to the car they didn't know how to do in the first place!
JESUS H CHRYSLER STOP PULLING ON THE FRONT OF THE HOOD TO OPEN IT!!!!!!!!!
Then by the time they are done its 20 year junkyer than 1 month ago!
Why not a 77 Caprice, or 76 Nova?
The questions that come up on here just makes my skin crawl to think what else they have done to the car they didn't know how to do in the first place!
JESUS H CHRYSLER STOP PULLING ON THE FRONT OF THE HOOD TO OPEN IT!!!!!!!!!
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Safety Car
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From: Southern Indiana
Racer
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From: San Diego CA
St. Jude Donor '05-'07
This should probably in General but whatever...
I would say that even if a noncar guy ended up with a vette and was asking stupid questions ... at least they are asking. If they ask the forum before they do anything there is less of a chance of screwwing up the car.
I did say less of a chance...because some people cannot be helped.
I would say that even if a noncar guy ended up with a vette and was asking stupid questions ... at least they are asking. If they ask the forum before they do anything there is less of a chance of screwwing up the car.
I did say less of a chance...because some people cannot be helped.
Le Mans Master
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From: Boca Raton Florida
LOL, thats true. Sometimes it amazes me the questions that get asked, but like you say, at least they asked first. And when they do I try and answer.
Hell, I been known to ask some pretty simple stuff in here
Hell, I been known to ask some pretty simple stuff in here
Le Mans Master
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From: Wilmington DE, Drive it like you stole it, 68 327 4 speed coupe
Hey Now there are NO stupid questions,
just stupid people asking them
j/k
To be honest if the internet was around 25 year ago when i forst started wrenching, it would have saved my dad and all his friends some serious headaches with all my questions and breaking stuff, putting distributors in backwards, and well you get the idea
Cheers
Tim H (aka me)
Intermediate
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From: New Jersey
To be honest...we are all experts in something.
You look to experts for advice on building skyscrapers or fixing human hearts.
Many on this board have an expertise specifically in the corvette, and I look to you folks.
We all have to start somewhere, and what better place than this to get advice and what better car to have than a vette.
Kenny Z.
You look to experts for advice on building skyscrapers or fixing human hearts.
Many on this board have an expertise specifically in the corvette, and I look to you folks.
We all have to start somewhere, and what better place than this to get advice and what better car to have than a vette.
Kenny Z.
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Burning Brakes
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From: west babylon new york
vettes
people get into vets for strange reasons i bought my first one while still in high school 1970 it was a 58 my parents got me a 66 ford fairlane conv, first sat morning with that car i got up early [9am] to go to the beach and the car was gone , mom took it to go shopping, 2 weeks later i traded it for a 58 stick , well mom didn;t drive a stick so it took care of that problem 37 years later i now have a 61 and a 72 coupe the funny part is they are both automatics as i don;t feel like shifting either
Le Mans Master
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From: indy indiana
people get into vets for strange reasons i bought my first one while still in high school 1970 it was a 58 my parents got me a 66 ford fairlane conv, first sat morning with that car i got up early [9am] to go to the beach and the car was gone , mom took it to go shopping, 2 weeks later i traded it for a 58 stick , well mom didn;t drive a stick so it took care of that problem 37 years later i now have a 61 and a 72 coupe the funny part is they are both automatics as i don;t feel like shifting either
Melting Slicks
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From: Minnesota in the summer, Las Vegas in the winter
Why, why, why of all cars a non car person picks to tinker with has to be a Corvette?
Then by the time they are done its 20 year junkyer than 1 month ago!
Why not a 77 Caprice, or 76 Nova?
The questions that come up on here just makes my skin crawl to think what else they have done to the car they didn't know how to do in the first place!
JESUS H CHRYSLER STOP PULLING ON THE FRONT OF THE HOOD TO OPEN IT!!!!!!!!!
Then by the time they are done its 20 year junkyer than 1 month ago!
Why not a 77 Caprice, or 76 Nova?
The questions that come up on here just makes my skin crawl to think what else they have done to the car they didn't know how to do in the first place!
JESUS H CHRYSLER STOP PULLING ON THE FRONT OF THE HOOD TO OPEN IT!!!!!!!!!
Melting Slicks
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From: Salisbury Maryland
I picked a Vette because it was always the car I was pointing out when I was a kid. Those fenders, the style....WOW!
Life is a "learn-as-you-go" sport. I used to help my Dad tinker and tune-up the old family cars when I was 10 years old, a 67 Chevelle 4-door, and a 66 Bel-Air 4-door. They were the family "beaters". Sure, I don't have the experience to rebuild a 3.08 rear, but I can do what it takes to get it done if I need to.
Until 8 months ago, when I got the 69, the dwell, points, timing lights...it all started coming back to me!
Even last evening when I took it out for a spin, I saw a Dad and his son, probably no more than 12, point at the Vette and smile. Perhaps that young boy will someday purchase the car he always dreamed of being behind the wheel of.(the music's coming in now)
It's a never-ending cycle hopefully. That's just what the Corvette has become...isn't it great! And truly American!
(music still playing loudly)
(music fading....)
Life is a "learn-as-you-go" sport. I used to help my Dad tinker and tune-up the old family cars when I was 10 years old, a 67 Chevelle 4-door, and a 66 Bel-Air 4-door. They were the family "beaters". Sure, I don't have the experience to rebuild a 3.08 rear, but I can do what it takes to get it done if I need to.
Until 8 months ago, when I got the 69, the dwell, points, timing lights...it all started coming back to me!
Even last evening when I took it out for a spin, I saw a Dad and his son, probably no more than 12, point at the Vette and smile. Perhaps that young boy will someday purchase the car he always dreamed of being behind the wheel of.(the music's coming in now)
It's a never-ending cycle hopefully. That's just what the Corvette has become...isn't it great! And truly American!
(music still playing loudly)
(music fading....)
Burning Brakes
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From: san jose California
well i love my car, and wouldt sell it for less than 30k so youd have to be crazy to buy it off of me..
that being said:
id trade it in a heart beat for a 70 road runner, or a 67 firebird. as much as i love the vette, it kills me to only be able to take 1 person with me at a time..
that being said:
id trade it in a heart beat for a 70 road runner, or a 67 firebird. as much as i love the vette, it kills me to only be able to take 1 person with me at a time..
Burning Brakes
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From: Cartersville GA
Hey, don't forget. At one time NONE of us knew anything. For those who are just getting started, I recommend getting a few manuals and an AIM and start reading. However, the internet is a great place for information, and if someone asks a question, at least they are trying to learn and know that it's a smart move to ask someone who's been there!
Racer
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From: Orange Park (Jacksonville) FL
Hey Now there are NO stupid questions,
just stupid people asking them
j/k
To be honest if the internet was around 25 year ago when i forst started wrenching, it would have saved my dad and all his friends some serious headaches with all my questions and breaking stuff, putting distributors in backwards, and well you get the idea
Cheers
Tim H (aka me)
just stupid people asking them
j/k
To be honest if the internet was around 25 year ago when i forst started wrenching, it would have saved my dad and all his friends some serious headaches with all my questions and breaking stuff, putting distributors in backwards, and well you get the idea
Cheers
Tim H (aka me)
As one of my mentors told me when I was a Med Student. "The stupid question is the one that is never asked."......and....."There are likely several others who want to ask the question, but are hesitant to for some reason."
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From: Southern Indiana
Speak for yourself on that on!
I remember building model cars in the first grade and the day came to change out a water pump on a Cutlass and I knew how.
I remember wet sanding my uncle's 68 conv Firebird ram air 400 4 -speed just barley reaching the middle of the trunk, all the while sitting next to us was his 73 Charger with a 383 and a 70 Challenger puprple with a 340 slap stick.
Dad was driving a 350 69 Chevelle, mom and 65 289 4-speed mustang coupe, another uncle pulls up in a 68 442, while my other uncle was cleaning up at Beech Bend with a 62 Plymouth Sport Fury Golden Camando 361 car he bought new and still dragraces today with a bored out 440, while my aunt cleaned house in a 70 Cuda 340 that still is in the ole rickty garage with 30,000 miles on it,(Looked at it the other day)! I'v had over 70 cars myself!!!!!!!
Thats why it amazes me how people would even want to start messing with cars so late in time, then pick one of the hardest to mess with in the first place????
I remember building model cars in the first grade and the day came to change out a water pump on a Cutlass and I knew how.
I remember wet sanding my uncle's 68 conv Firebird ram air 400 4 -speed just barley reaching the middle of the trunk, all the while sitting next to us was his 73 Charger with a 383 and a 70 Challenger puprple with a 340 slap stick.
Dad was driving a 350 69 Chevelle, mom and 65 289 4-speed mustang coupe, another uncle pulls up in a 68 442, while my other uncle was cleaning up at Beech Bend with a 62 Plymouth Sport Fury Golden Camando 361 car he bought new and still dragraces today with a bored out 440, while my aunt cleaned house in a 70 Cuda 340 that still is in the ole rickty garage with 30,000 miles on it,(Looked at it the other day)! I'v had over 70 cars myself!!!!!!!
Thats why it amazes me how people would even want to start messing with cars so late in time, then pick one of the hardest to mess with in the first place????
Melting Slicks
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From: Salisbury Maryland
Of course, there's the cool factor !
I don't mind messing with cars. Always have changed my own oil, etc. Vette's just tend to be more involved than most other cars. I look at that as a challenge, it'll never get the better of me. Sometimes when I feel it trying to, I just walk away, come back later, and get it done(or git 'er dun as some say).
Vette's tend to be in a league of their own. Go to a car show and you see the Camaro's, Chevelle's, Nova's, Mopar's, etc. etc. Then there are the Vette's!
Go to a Vette show, and you see the C6's(who can put more wax on), the C4's & 5's, and of course the C3's, 2's, and the rare C1's.
American automobile history at it's finest!
I don't mind messing with cars. Always have changed my own oil, etc. Vette's just tend to be more involved than most other cars. I look at that as a challenge, it'll never get the better of me. Sometimes when I feel it trying to, I just walk away, come back later, and get it done(or git 'er dun as some say).
Vette's tend to be in a league of their own. Go to a car show and you see the Camaro's, Chevelle's, Nova's, Mopar's, etc. etc. Then there are the Vette's!
Go to a Vette show, and you see the C6's(who can put more wax on), the C4's & 5's, and of course the C3's, 2's, and the rare C1's.
American automobile history at it's finest!