Dumb C3 things
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St. Jude Donor '12-'13
1. kick panel vents that don't open.
2. bolts and screw threads to adjust the seat backs.
3. coin holder indentation in the center console.
4. stepping on the gas pedal to prime the carb and start car. (just kidding, but forget about this when I first bought my vette. LOL)
2. bolts and screw threads to adjust the seat backs.
3. coin holder indentation in the center console.
4. stepping on the gas pedal to prime the carb and start car. (just kidding, but forget about this when I first bought my vette. LOL)
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On my old 73 vert..I always loved the way my right foot would get toasted when it rested against the tranny tunnel. and did anyone else experience the doors flying open as you turned the corner and hit a bump at the same time (usually the drivers door)...priceless!
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Sorry, I don't get it?
Everything above posted as "Stupid" are exactly the things that make these cars cool?
Fiber optics are still in use..Mercedes uses them for rear lighting. Wiper doors that move, headlights that go up and down and clean themselves. Pretty cool stuff to me!
Title should be "Neat C3 Things"
Everything above posted as "Stupid" are exactly the things that make these cars cool?
Fiber optics are still in use..Mercedes uses them for rear lighting. Wiper doors that move, headlights that go up and down and clean themselves. Pretty cool stuff to me!
Title should be "Neat C3 Things"
Last edited by Don Rickles; Jan 8, 2015 at 11:42 AM.
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Sorry, I don't get it?
Everything above posted as "Stupid" are exactly the things that make these cars cool?
Fiber optics are still in use..Mercedes uses them for rear lighting. Wiper doors that move, headlights that go up and down and clean themselves. Pretty cool stuff to me!
Title should be "Neat C3 Things"
Everything above posted as "Stupid" are exactly the things that make these cars cool?
Fiber optics are still in use..Mercedes uses them for rear lighting. Wiper doors that move, headlights that go up and down and clean themselves. Pretty cool stuff to me!
Title should be "Neat C3 Things"
They are so 
exactly because of all the features you mentioned. Pete
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Sorry, I don't get it?
Everything above posted as "Stupid" are exactly the things that make these cars cool?
Fiber optics are still in use..Mercedes uses them for rear lighting. Wiper doors that move, headlights that go up and down and clean themselves. Pretty cool stuff to me!
Title should be "Neat C3 Things"
Everything above posted as "Stupid" are exactly the things that make these cars cool?
Fiber optics are still in use..Mercedes uses them for rear lighting. Wiper doors that move, headlights that go up and down and clean themselves. Pretty cool stuff to me!
Title should be "Neat C3 Things"
some of it was way ahead of its times
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Capkunu, I am sorry that the only one that I have is clipped on my ash tray door. Ernie, at Willcox probably has one, try him, and good luck! Lou.
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I had two 81's at the time I liked the bubble butt rear glass, but GM should have made them all open not just the 82ce.
I LOVE
The wiper door, it was just so cool to the era like the fiber optics which have to be seen to really get the "wow" factory of them,
I dig the 68 door button and dash ign,
The rear irs,
I was about 14-15, I knew vettes but not well, a modded c3 was in front of us in night traffic, no spare tire carrier, as it moved I saw the 1/2 axles turning because the owner had painted them checker board and even had small lights on them, I thought that was so darn cool, I had to know more about this odd sports car, when I learned it could be had with a big block I would sold.
So in a way the irs is what turned me onto vettes....
I LOVE
The wiper door, it was just so cool to the era like the fiber optics which have to be seen to really get the "wow" factory of them,
I dig the 68 door button and dash ign,
The rear irs,
I was about 14-15, I knew vettes but not well, a modded c3 was in front of us in night traffic, no spare tire carrier, as it moved I saw the 1/2 axles turning because the owner had painted them checker board and even had small lights on them, I thought that was so darn cool, I had to know more about this odd sports car, when I learned it could be had with a big block I would sold.
So in a way the irs is what turned me onto vettes....
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And what about the 'BRAKE' light coming on when you get uneven pressure between the front and rear lines?
First time mine did it, I was like "WTF is broke now?" then when I figured it out.. "Hey that's pretty cool!"
Last edited by Madhatr; Jan 9, 2015 at 02:05 PM.
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The window crank mounted right in the middle of the map pocket on my '78 turning it into a pen holder. They should have just left the pocket off the manual window cars. 
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Don't have a C3, but I really like 70 through 72.
Steve
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It was done because of regulations requiring that a car emerge from a 5mph impact without damage. The following year required that the rear end handle a 2.5mph impact with no damage.
Those pretty chrome bumpers were pretty much decorative only in function.
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This little clip missing will cause the door to slide open, without it in there the door moves about freely and I've seen many of them missing over the years. funny I just saw Lou's post too..
What is even funnier is that when Trim parts started making the shift plates they had no idea the clip was there so all the first run shift plates had ash tray issues. I talked to them, sent them an original and in return they sent me box full when they reproduced it.
http://willcoxcorvette.com/product_i...oducts_id=3107
What is even funnier is that when Trim parts started making the shift plates they had no idea the clip was there so all the first run shift plates had ash tray issues. I talked to them, sent them an original and in return they sent me box full when they reproduced it.
http://willcoxcorvette.com/product_i...oducts_id=3107
Last edited by Willcox Corvette; Jan 9, 2015 at 08:10 PM.
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The mid-mounted, manually deployable spoiler on the 68-72's was far ahead of it's time.
Sure, pretty common now of the Porsche, Audi, AMGs, Bugatti's and all, and sure they've put them at the back instead of the front of the windshield, and ok theirs are controlled by computers based on speed and G-forces and braking dynamics and other fancy things instead of the wiper switch, but we all know where the idea came from originally ....
Sure, pretty common now of the Porsche, Audi, AMGs, Bugatti's and all, and sure they've put them at the back instead of the front of the windshield, and ok theirs are controlled by computers based on speed and G-forces and braking dynamics and other fancy things instead of the wiper switch, but we all know where the idea came from originally ....
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I had two 81's at the time I liked the bubble butt rear glass, but GM should have made them all open not just the 82ce.
I LOVE
The wiper door, it was just so cool to the era like the fiber optics which have to be seen to really get the "wow" factory of them,
I dig the 68 door button and dash ign,
The rear irs,
I was about 14-15, I knew vettes but not well, a modded c3 was in front of us in night traffic, no spare tire carrier, as it moved I saw the 1/2 axles turning because the owner had painted them checker board and even had small lights on them, I thought that was so darn cool, I had to know more about this odd sports car, when I learned it could be had with a big block I would sold.
So in a way the irs is what turned me onto vettes....
I LOVE
The wiper door, it was just so cool to the era like the fiber optics which have to be seen to really get the "wow" factory of them,
I dig the 68 door button and dash ign,
The rear irs,
I was about 14-15, I knew vettes but not well, a modded c3 was in front of us in night traffic, no spare tire carrier, as it moved I saw the 1/2 axles turning because the owner had painted them checker board and even had small lights on them, I thought that was so darn cool, I had to know more about this odd sports car, when I learned it could be had with a big block I would sold.
So in a way the irs is what turned me onto vettes....