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Old 01-23-2017, 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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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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BEAUTIFUL pic. By the way, what size are your tires?
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Awesome!

Cars are meant to be driven.
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Originally Posted by LT1M21Vette
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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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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Originally Posted by Rescue Rogers
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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