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Le Mans Master
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2022 C3 of the Year Finalist - Modified
Absolutely......especially after my power to manual steering conversion. Driving my Corvette is a personal relationship with the road....the gas pedal for the acceleration.....I love it.
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Burning Brakes
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From: The Buckle of the Bible Belt. Joplin Mo
I can relate to that. My C -10 is manual everything. When I drive it, I feel like I have a hold of something real. Kinda that hardtail experience. When you swap your steering gearbox, do you have to change the column also.?
Le Mans Master
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2022 C3 of the Year Finalist - Modified
Steering box is the same manual and power steering. I removed all power steering parts, and replaced with factory manual steering parts. I even kept my tie rods in the high ratio hole in spindle.
Safety Car
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From: los altos hills california
Did the 68's have a silver highlight on the grill? I didn't think so but I kind of like it as I have a silver car. Maybe I'll try some thin silver tape to see what it looks like on my 69. 69's just had plain black grills so far as I know.
The 69 sales brochure can be purchased from I believe Mid America, and had the same spiel about gauges.... the "Corvette has a gauge for everything but your blood pressure"
The 69 sales brochure can be purchased from I believe Mid America, and had the same spiel about gauges.... the "Corvette has a gauge for everything but your blood pressure"
Melting Slicks
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From: myrtle beach sc
Army
Yes, all 68's had a silver hi-lighted front grille. Early 69's, I think, carried over the silver grill. The car in that ad picture has to be a pre-production model. If you notice, all six of the grille bars are painted. I think production grilles only had five bars painted silver. Also, as I have said in the past, there is no hump in the front bumper "V". It looks like that is suppose to be a coupe. Notice that the "targa" one piece roof only has a line drawn to simulate the T-tops. Lou.
Team Owner
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From: Deerfield Illinois
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