Originally Posted by 7t9l82

The great pumpkin charlie Brown?😊

Originally Posted by ignatz

Did the Buick have the "adjustable dashboard" or did that come later?

Originally Posted by Priya

I'm not sure what you mean by "adjustable dashboard" but it had some kind of wheel you could spin to raise or lower a mirror or some such thing to see the speedometer. I don't remember exactly how it worked. I thought it was kinda cool.

Originally Posted by OldCarBum

My dad was a Buick guy.
I think my parents always had Buicks.
He just couldn’t understand why I wanted a 70 Chevelle rather than drive their 67 Riviera.

Originally Posted by c3Tris4

Hey Priya what’s the progress on the build. I really like your visón. I have an 81 I’m trying to do the conversion myself.

Originally Posted by Priya

Hello everyone, it's been a couple of months since I last worked on the car and I don't know when I'll get back to it so I thought I'd post an update. I had really hoped to leave the headlight buckets in place as removing them and getting them re-aligned just sounds like way more fun than I was hoping to have but seeing as the header bar is separated from the hood surround removing the buckets is the only way to re-bond the header bar to the hood surround. I haven't been eager to jump into that so I started writing a blog post about (politics, edited) I expected that to be my typical one to two screenfuls in length but I kept thinking of things that would be good to add and it just kept getting longer and longer. I was wondering where to stop when I just decided I'm going to keep writing until I've said all I want to say and I'll see if I can/should shorten it up after that. I thought I was almost done when I'd written a little over half of what I have to date and I keep thinking of things I should add, so I really have no idea how much longer I'm going to be at it and in the meantime I won't be working on my Corvette - writing this essay is my highest priority right now. As I can only at best average about 2 hours/day on the computer without getting a long term headache and my brain doesn't work as well as it used (I have to think a lot to write a little) it's been pretty slow going. After 2 months I currently have what would be about 17 pages if printed on 8 & 1/2 by 11 paper at 60 lines per page. (Politics, edited)

There's not a lot to do to finish off this project but I don't know when I'll be back at it. (Edited). Of course I know I'd do far better selling it once it's done and there's not that much left to do so I'm not going to sell it for 10 cents on the dollar of what I've spent so far, which last time I added it up was 35K CDN (including the car), although that number may have been what I'd spent to date plus the cost of getting the aftermarket 69 front clip bought, delivered and glued on, I just don't remember . 35K spent though doesn't translate into 35k worth of stuff on the car as a significant amount of that money was spent on used parts that weren't up to snuff and I had to buy more, shipping costs and so on. The factory 225 hp L82 engine had bills for a complete rebuild when I bought the car with 60,000 miles but when I did a cold compression test the #1 cylinder was at 110 psi compared to 135 for all the others and the spark plug in #1 cylinder was heavily oil fouled unlike the rest of the spark plugs that were clean. The original oyster interior is in great shape but I have new silver door panels for it and new silver cloth covered seat cushions (I sold the oyster ones). I have pace car silver dye but it'd probably look fine with the silver door panels, seat covers and the remaining oyster coloured interior parts. It's got factory glass t-roof panels in nice shape, I have a Keisler remanufactured 5 speed manual trans, new clutch and pressure plate and all the conversion pieces needed to go from 4 to 5 speed that came with the kit. I have 2&1/2 inch oem style cast exhaust manifolds appearing new and a new complete 2 & 1/2 inch (quiet) exhaust system to fit them. I have new bare MerCruiser Vortec heads with 170 cc intake runners and 64 cc combustion chambers as well as a new Scroggins Dickey Vortec to Tuned Port Injection intake manifold, new Arizona Speed and Marine large tube intake runners. I have used TPI parts, wiring harness, fuel rails, throttle body, distributor, plenum and I don't remember what else. If I remember correctly the only things I don't have are the various TPI sensors and Vortec valve covers. I also have (as far as I know) all 68/69 Corvette front end parts less the fiberglass itself, some new aftermarket, some nice used. I have all three grills, NOS "hockey stick" grill trim, the higher cost aftermarket front bumper, the lower cost front bumperettes (which are very dull), used grill brackets, mostly new front bumper brackets although the centre horseshoe bracket needs the sheet metal triangles with the nuts welded to it replaced due to rust and front crossmember is a 68 with a couple of bolts broken off in it and a rust repair I did on it, the horseshow and front crossmember are far from as nice as the other new brackets I have but functional with a little work. I have 8 chrome 68/69 gill inserts although one is badly pitted the others are in driver condition. I have used rear 68-73 tail light housings, used rear 68-73 tail light lenses, driver quality rear bumpers, all 73 rear bumper brackets customized to adapt to 79 rear frame crossmember, new aftermarket license plate bezel.

I think it unlikely anyone is going to offer me enough to want to sell it but I know old Corvettes are selling at much higher prices than they were several years ago so on a lark I thought I'd tell you it's theoretically for sale.