The car that talks back
09-26-2017, 08:15 PM
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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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09-27-2017, 04:07 PM
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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.?
09-27-2017, 05:59 PM
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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.
09-27-2017, 07:04 PM
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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"
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09-27-2017, 07:30 PM
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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.
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09-28-2017, 09:57 AM
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09-30-2017, 09:23 AM
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Drifting
But who knows what has happened in its 49 year old life.
10-02-2017, 01:31 AM
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Melting Slicks
10-02-2017, 01:38 AM
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Melting Slicks
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