Lost C3 Corvette Tech Tip Websites
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Highway Man
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Lost C3 Corvette Tech Tip Websites
The hobby has been changing over the last few years, and we have been losing some good tech tip web sites (i.e. Willcox Corvette). I have been using a website called “Wayback Machine” (Internet Archive) to save snapshots of knowledge websites, so we can access the archived data, long after the web site goes offline.
Lately, there has been very limited changes going on with the Corvette-Restoration.com website and I am a bit concerned about the community potentially losing all of the amazing work that Tim Cote’s had documented for the C3 Corvette community. So, I took a snapshot of his web site using Wayback Machine…
Tim Cote’s website
https://www.corvette-restoration.com/
Snapshot Taken with Wayback Machine – Feb 9, 2024 (Its slow, but its archived)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190601234851/http://www.corvette-restoration.com/
https://www.76vette.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20230923031628/https://www.76vette.com/
https://www.corvettec3.ca
https://web.archive.org/web/20240119...3.ca/index.htm
Jim Shea's steering papers:
http://www.corvettefaq.com/
https://archive.org/details/corvettefaq
**UPDATED Feb 15, 2024**
Cheers,
Richard
Lately, there has been very limited changes going on with the Corvette-Restoration.com website and I am a bit concerned about the community potentially losing all of the amazing work that Tim Cote’s had documented for the C3 Corvette community. So, I took a snapshot of his web site using Wayback Machine…
Tim Cote’s website
https://www.corvette-restoration.com/
Snapshot Taken with Wayback Machine – Feb 9, 2024 (Its slow, but its archived)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190601234851/http://www.corvette-restoration.com/
https://www.76vette.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20230923031628/https://www.76vette.com/
https://www.corvettec3.ca
https://web.archive.org/web/20240119...3.ca/index.htm
Jim Shea's steering papers:
http://www.corvettefaq.com/
https://archive.org/details/corvettefaq
**UPDATED Feb 15, 2024**
Cheers,
Richard
Last edited by Kidster71; Feb 15, 2024 at 12:11 PM.
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Highway Man
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From: Ca
Adding these great sites to the list...
It looks like someone has beat me to the punch on these sites, they are already being regularly updated within the Wayback Machine.
https://www.76vette.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20230923031628/https://www.76vette.com/
https://www.corvettec3.ca
https://web.archive.org/web/20240119...3.ca/index.htm
Cheers,
Richard
It looks like someone has beat me to the punch on these sites, they are already being regularly updated within the Wayback Machine.
https://www.76vette.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20230923031628/https://www.76vette.com/
https://www.corvettec3.ca
https://web.archive.org/web/20240119...3.ca/index.htm
Cheers,
Richard
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Hoping somehow this can all be put together, ready to read and put in a sticky. But it needs to be ready to read. Not a bunch of links that will one day lead to a dead end.
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Highway Man
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Maybe I’m missing something but how much easier can it be?
The Wayback Machine URLs will not be a “Dead end”. That's the purpose of archiving the website with Wayback Machine.
I've laid it out with the original website URL (shortcut) on top, and the one underneath is the snapshot of the same website, now archived.
If and when the original website becomes a dead link, the static snapshot of it will be available for years to come.
What do you suggest?
The Wayback Machine URLs will not be a “Dead end”. That's the purpose of archiving the website with Wayback Machine.
I've laid it out with the original website URL (shortcut) on top, and the one underneath is the snapshot of the same website, now archived.
If and when the original website becomes a dead link, the static snapshot of it will be available for years to come.
What do you suggest?
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I've just had a quick look at a couple of the site in via the Wayback Machine (which I had never heard of!🙄
and they do take a little while to load up, but are fine!
Thanks for taking the time. Putting the post in a "sticky" would be useful I think.
and they do take a little while to load up, but are fine! Thanks for taking the time. Putting the post in a "sticky" would be useful I think.
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Thanks for posting this!
Here's another that someone beat you to. Jim Shea's steering papers:
http://www.corvettefaq.com/
https://archive.org/details/corvettefaq
It would be great to find that someone had saved all of Willcox Corvette's tech tips. What was posted on YouTube is still there, but they were a wealth of diagrams, how-tos, and diagnosing guides.
Here's another that someone beat you to. Jim Shea's steering papers:
http://www.corvettefaq.com/
https://archive.org/details/corvettefaq
It would be great to find that someone had saved all of Willcox Corvette's tech tips. What was posted on YouTube is still there, but they were a wealth of diagrams, how-tos, and diagnosing guides.
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Highway Man
Joined: Apr 2019
Posts: 445
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From: Ca
Thanks for posting this!
Here's another that someone beat you to. Jim Shea's steering papers:
http://www.corvettefaq.com/
https://archive.org/details/corvettefaq
It would be great to find that someone had saved all of Willcox Corvette's tech tips. What was posted on YouTube is still there, but they were a wealth of diagrams, how-tos, and diagnosing guides.
Here's another that someone beat you to. Jim Shea's steering papers:
http://www.corvettefaq.com/
https://archive.org/details/corvettefaq
It would be great to find that someone had saved all of Willcox Corvette's tech tips. What was posted on YouTube is still there, but they were a wealth of diagrams, how-tos, and diagnosing guides.
Cheers,
Richard
