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Old Feb 3, 2018 | 10:14 AM
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Hi guys,


Finalising getting the doors back together - the windows work, but there is an annoying extra wire that has never had a home!


can anyone tell me where this is meant to go?


thanks!


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Do you have power door locks?

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The car is a 68 - so I very much doubt it ��

The aim doesn't seem to reference it.. but it does look original..
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The Corvette window motor has a 2-wire connector (rather than a 3-wire as in your photo), with a separate ground wire that is attached to the motor housing. I wonder if that motor has been replaced with a non-Corvette unit and had some 'grafting' done to the wiring. One of the wires on that connector appears to be black (ground), which should not be there [unless the '68 unit was different from later years].
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someone added power windows from another car??
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That's a possibility....
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