Just joined the 'vette community with a '75 Coupe. It appears to be a complete original untouched car, except for hooker headers and sidepipes and turbo spoke wheels supposedly added by the dealer before the car rolled off the lot in Ohio. It's a 4-speed L-82, so at least a little more desirable than it's brothers of the same year. The car sat since '91, so there's been a fair amount of weathering. We've gone through the brakes, most of the front end bushings/shocks, etc., rebuilt the carb, replaced the water pump, etc. Today It passed inspection and rolled it's first miles in all those years.

The paint is toast, but thanks to this forum is well on it's way to a scrape and sand stripping, to get ready for epoxy. I plan to drive it a while with just epoxy to see where stress cracks may come back (the paint on top is so bad, it's hard to see what's a crack and what is just flakey paint) This will also give me time to work out mechanical gremlins before paint.

After seeing the thread on bad birdcage repair though, I think I need to pull the windshield at some point and check things out. On closer inspection it looks like more than just surface rust may be at work under there. If there's an archive thread on pulling window chrome and hopefully the windshield without messing things up, let me know. I'd get a glass shop to re-install, might be best to let them pull the old too.

Interior is only going to need carpet and door panels to look decent.

Mechanically the only immediate need I know of is a leaky pinion seal. If there's a trick to getting that yoke off, I'd love to hear it. I see a weekend of busted knuckles in my future for that one.

Anyway, just thought I'd chime in. I'm not sure how anyone worked on anything before the internet! Sites like this save tons of time and frustration.

The added bonus of the 'vette is my 14 year old son finally has something we both enjoy. If I can't find him in the house, chances are he's out messing with the car...

 

kool i got a 75 vette too

 

Welcome Congrats on the Vette

 

Sweet. Good luck with it. I just got mine 3 days ago too. And I just joined this forum today. What colour is your's? I'm sporting a yellow one.

 

Father son projects are cool When my son was his age we were deep into dune buggies. Kept both of us out of trouble.

and he later took his date to the senior prom in one. Upstaged all the limos.


Make sure the vette's ready by prom night!

 

Welcome to the forum. Lots of good people here always willing to help.

 

I thought I had given up on project cars 15 years ago. Maybe I just have more patience now. This car is Burgandy/Maroon (not sure what the official color name is) with Silver Leather interior. I haven't yet looked up paint codes, but I assume it's original, especially after stripping some off. Haven't really confirmed the engine is original, but again, nothing hints of it ever being touched.

The color and the sidepipes really make the look of this car. Not so sure about the silver interior, but I'll keep it. I plan to stay original, even if this is to be a daily driver. Now to get that A/C fixed, it was 88 degrees here today!

 

Ah, another 75! welcome, we are growing on this forum.


Danny

 

Welcome
Any pics!

 

Congratulations and welcome to the forum.

 

Welcome to the forum!

 

Welcome aboard - sounds like it will be a great father/son experience! Now, stop by your bank's ATM because that's what your future self-portrait is going to look like.

 

Welcome from another 75 owner

 

Welcome to the chaos

lets see some pics of your car

 

Welcome. I have a silver '75. You'll probably get busted knuckles at your banks ATM but, it's all worth it!!! If headlights don't work propertly check the Vacuum Reservor in the front bumper(if it leaks you can get a tank from a 80-82). Gas smell - check the charcoal canister.
You're not only in for fun but a history lesson as well. And this site is great to get all your questions answered!!!

 

First is my mop-headed son in the car the first weekend we had it. Note the 4x4 parking brake has now been replaced with actual working ones!

 

Congrats and welcome.

Great project you have there...*Cough* Engine *Cough*.

 

In the picture the paint doesn't look that bad, but I think I can see that it's spider webbed all over the car. I had the same problem with mine when I got it and it didnt' show up real well in pictures. The only solution is to strip it to fiberglass and start over. I also think you are smart to sort out the mechanicals before diving into the paint. I did exactly that to mine when I first got it. I drove it around for about 2 months before tearing it apart to be painted. Looks like you've got yourself a pretty good car to start with, good luck.