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Old Jan 23, 2017 | 02:55 PM
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Had a very nice day on Saturday, between the weather fronts which dropped some snow in the mountains W of Las Vegas.
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Old Jan 23, 2017 | 03:05 PM
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Beautiful car and scenery. I spent almost a decade in Nevada between Vegas and Reno and always loved the mountains and high mountain desert. Stunning. Thanks for posting.
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Old Jan 24, 2017 | 12:40 PM
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BEAUTIFUL pic. By the way, what size are your tires?
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Old Jan 24, 2017 | 06:50 PM
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Awesome!

Cars are meant to be driven.
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Awesome!

Cars are meant to be driven.
Love the lower stance. Have the rear end out of my 81 and have the offset trailing arms with the foresight of doing a wider tire when i get to that point.
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Old Jan 24, 2017 | 11:55 PM
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I'd love to. But I have a problem with an engine miss.
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Having a problem myself. hopefully not for long tho!
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BEAUTIFUL pic. By the way, what size are your tires?
The cragars are the 1 pc aluminum. 8x17 all around. The tires are 225/55/17 bf goodrich, sport comps. Im still deciding on my next wheel purchase, I want to go wider in the rear. But unfortunately Cragar doesnt make a 17x10 in this style. So..... Im still looking for the perfect wheel that a million others dont have.
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any rubbing, front or rear, fenders or trailing arms
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I took a day off yesterday and drove thru the Arkansas hills! Nice day.
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Gotta love red! Very nice.
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That's an incredible back drop for a very good looking C3. "Get out and drive" is great advice.
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any rubbing, front or rear, fenders or trailing arms
None whatsoever. In fact the rear can certainly go wider. I have a look I'm after, just haven't really found it yet. The Cragars are cool for now.
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That's an incredible back drop for a very good looking C3. "Get out and drive" is great advice.
Thanks 3js, I used my Canon M3 mirrorless camera with a 200 mm lense. Shot the pic several miles away, the weather, light, backdrop just all came together. I do shoot in raw and develope in lightroom. Trying to learn photography, just having fun.
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The vegas mountains are beautiful right now. I took this shot of my C3 near Red Rock on Jan 1, this same shot right now would be even better with the snow capped mountains:

https://i.imgur.com/DpAcmOf.jpg
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Sunstroked, that is a beautiful Corvette and a BEAUTIFUL photograph!

The first photo is mine up on Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park this past September. The second photo was on a 45 minute drive my Wife and I were able to do on New Year's Day.

I was also able to take mine out a week ago in Chicago after we had several days of rain to wash the salt away.

Good driving to all who can do so this time of year!




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I've got a slight problem as well... Help me tracdogg2. You're my only hope.

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Fred Flintstone style?
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Originally Posted by TimAT
I'd love to. But I have a problem with an engine miss.
Awh that's nothing. A slight tune up will fix that and get you back on the road.
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