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Old Aug 6, 2020 | 04:58 PM
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https://www.corvetteblogger.com/2019/01/08/front-wheel-drive-1979-corvette-donated-to-the-national-corvette-museum/


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Old Aug 7, 2020 | 06:15 AM
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Its an El Dorado with a Corvette body.
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Old Aug 7, 2020 | 11:23 AM
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Interesting. But what's with that ugly 'thing' on the hood???
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Old Aug 7, 2020 | 01:20 PM
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Although I'm a FWD expert and have 4 of them, raced them in SCCA, was a crew Chief....this is mechanical masturbation.

Zora spent his life trying to balance the Vette.....

URP....
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Old Aug 7, 2020 | 01:28 PM
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HARD pass
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Thanks for the video. Good to know this car exists.

t's a 3:59 minute video, of which only 10 seconds is devoted to a just brief look at the engine compartment and 3:49 is devoted to BS. Would have like to see much more of the mechanical aspects of the conversion, particularly an underneath view of the front wheel drive.
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Old Aug 7, 2020 | 02:29 PM
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Dear Fellow peeps. There is a VERY interesting ZORA connection here.
For the 1967 Eldo and Toro...

GM roped in the 'best engineer' in the place....who did not work for Cad nor Olds.

"Hey Zora...can you figure out how to get the internal driveshaft for the transaxle THROUGH THE OIL PAN?"

He did and it was MASTERFUL.

Unkahal.
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[QUOTE=L-46man;1601973561...this is mechanical masturbation.



URP....[/QUOTE]

Guilty. I just make sure the garage door is closed first.
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I admire the ingenuity some guys have. Fwd, awd, diesel or electric vettes, hats off to the builders for having the gonads to do it.
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Originally Posted by resdoggie
I admire the ingenuity some guys have. Fwd, awd, diesel or electric vettes, hats off to the builders for having the gonads to do it.
Yep- I'm with you-

BUT I would have liked to see some actual picture of the build.

I would have done something different with the intake & smoked plexi wort on the hood...

Put the drivetrain in the rear- like the Cam-aero was done back in the 90's






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