68 L 88 here we go
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Do what ya gotta do Wes..................................for the car and for your son. It's YOUR car........................until one of the "so called" experts steps up to play a man's game. Talk (and advice like "well, you oughta do this or that) is cheap. Enjoy the journey,.......... whatever you decide and best wishes to your family and your son.
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Enjoy the journey as you put it back together, however that may be. You obviously know how to work on cars. My operating principal in regards to restoration has been to do only what I can afford, BUT otherwise...do no harm. So far it as worked very well for me. BTW, Dave is one of the top Bloomington Gold judges (special 30 year award) and an expert in deterioration rates for Survivor cars of all makes. He just smiled when I told him that there are supposedly no more L-88 carbs laying around...anywhere. Maybe the hot-shot big name restorers have depleted their stockpiles?
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Only one that I know of. Dave Walters drove his '67 "Flying Dutchman" L-88 from Miami to Bloomington Gold for the L-88 reunion back whenever. He had a truck and trailer following him with 55 gallon drums of race fuel. Do the math: 1400 miles at 7 mpg (?) would be 200 gals...at $12 per gal would be $2400. Needless to say, he trailered it back. He has drag raced it at Moroso and road course raced it at Homestead. Now it is too valuable to even risk driving it to a car show. Besides, they overheat in traffic. They were never supposed to be driven on the street and were not designed for idling at a stop light. Kinda hard to enjoy anything that gives you that much to worry about.
Enjoy the journey as you put it back together, however that may be. You obviously know how to work on cars. My operating principal in regards to restoration has been to do only what I can afford, BUT otherwise...do no harm. So far it as worked very well for me. BTW, Dave is one of the top Bloomington Gold judges (special 30 year award) and an expert in deterioration rates for Survivor cars of all makes. He just smiled when I told him that there are supposedly no more L-88 carbs laying around...anywhere. Maybe the hot-shot big name restorers have depleted their stockpiles?
Enjoy the journey as you put it back together, however that may be. You obviously know how to work on cars. My operating principal in regards to restoration has been to do only what I can afford, BUT otherwise...do no harm. So far it as worked very well for me. BTW, Dave is one of the top Bloomington Gold judges (special 30 year award) and an expert in deterioration rates for Survivor cars of all makes. He just smiled when I told him that there are supposedly no more L-88 carbs laying around...anywhere. Maybe the hot-shot big name restorers have depleted their stockpiles?
Thank you for the great info .I will try to track down Dave and go visit him My goal is to keep the L 88 as original as possible. As far as a Bloomington show maybe I will get lucky and they will have one across the street from me .It will be a slow process as my $$ comes from my Marine Corps disability payments and selling corvette parts here and there
thanks 530
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Whatever you do with this car it's going to be great. I'd be too chicken to have fun with the original engine. I'd drive it with a large inch big block targeting about 100HP more than the stock engine would produce and keep all the original drive line stuff in my living room. That's pretty much what I do with most original engine old cars (except the living room part) worth only about 1/10 of your beast.
Keep the pictures coming
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You squids used to put us back togethe t all the time so I will always call you Sir as O was taught
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while I won`t dispute your L-88 claim what kind of documentation (tank sticker, window sticker, etc) do you have? also curious if any of the well known Corvette restorers actually came to see the car and what kind of offers they made...
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Good luck with the car. I wish you and Adam even more luck with his sight. You will guys will be in my thoughts and prayers.
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I think it's great what you are doing with the car Wes. It can be restored anytime but it takes ***** to fix it up as best as possible and drive it like that. Nobody will be able to tell you it isn't a real one or you just made it.
That thing should put a smile on everyone's face.
I hope your son is going to be OK and maybe one day he will get to drive it.
Grant
That thing should put a smile on everyone's face.
I hope your son is going to be OK and maybe one day he will get to drive it.
Grant
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Hi Wes,
A silver L-88 car that Dave Walters owned (maybe the one that FR described) is now owned by a Corvette guy that lives about 30 minutes from my location.
I've had the pleasure of getting some good looks at it. When it came north it had what I think were 'torque thrusts' and black-walls on it which gave it a really great appearance even before the hood got opened!
When it was presented for Flight Judging it had rallys on it which while nice, certainly didn't do for it what the TTs did.
Regards,
Alan
I agree, "do no harm"! I'll even add please!
A silver L-88 car that Dave Walters owned (maybe the one that FR described) is now owned by a Corvette guy that lives about 30 minutes from my location.
I've had the pleasure of getting some good looks at it. When it came north it had what I think were 'torque thrusts' and black-walls on it which gave it a really great appearance even before the hood got opened!
When it was presented for Flight Judging it had rallys on it which while nice, certainly didn't do for it what the TTs did.
Regards,
Alan
I agree, "do no harm"! I'll even add please!
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A silver L-88 car that Dave Walters owned (maybe the one that FR described) is now owned by a Corvette guy that lives about 30 minutes from my location.
I've had the pleasure of getting some good looks at it. When it came north it had what I think were 'torque thrusts' and black-walls on it which gave it a really great appearance even before the hood got opened!
I've had the pleasure of getting some good looks at it. When it came north it had what I think were 'torque thrusts' and black-walls on it which gave it a really great appearance even before the hood got opened!
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Hi Wes,
A silver L-88 car that Dave Walters owned (maybe the one that FR described) is now owned by a Corvette guy that lives about 30 minutes from my location.
I've had the pleasure of getting some good looks at it. When it came north it had what I think were 'torque thrusts' and black-walls on it which gave it a really great appearance even before the hood got opened!
When it was presented for Flight Judging it had rallys on it which while nice, certainly didn't do for it what the TTs did.
Regards,
Alan
I agree, "do no harm"! I'll even add please!
A silver L-88 car that Dave Walters owned (maybe the one that FR described) is now owned by a Corvette guy that lives about 30 minutes from my location.
I've had the pleasure of getting some good looks at it. When it came north it had what I think were 'torque thrusts' and black-walls on it which gave it a really great appearance even before the hood got opened!
When it was presented for Flight Judging it had rallys on it which while nice, certainly didn't do for it what the TTs did.
Regards,
Alan
I agree, "do no harm"! I'll even add please!
I will get back to work in morning today was Dr's and chase parts day . Avalon John was kin enough to donate correct color dash and Dr L88 donated correct door panels .Aren't these forum guys great
Wes
Last edited by 530planeman; Feb 1, 2016 at 07:02 PM.