Argggg I can't do it!!!
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Argggg I can't do it!!!
Just got my '72' about a month ago, need to restore it but I can't bring myself to start the rebuild without driving it! I replaced the MC today and took it for a test ride and everything is FINE! How the H*&L am I going to start a restore this winter and not be able to drive it next spring?? Arrrggggggg...hmm maybe talk my wife into a transition vette? lol
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Re: Argggg I can't do it!!! (Nomad78SA)
We get to drive maybe April to October. Looks like I start to put transition vette into action and come up with a plan to present to the missis! :yesnod: :lol: :lol: :D
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Re: Argggg I can't do it!!! (mpro72vette)
It looks mighty fine right now to me. :yesnod: What are planning on doing? Your paint looks great, if everything is is OK why not drive it till you need new paint. I did a interior make over and my paint is still pretty good so I am driving the **** out of it until it needs paint.
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Re: Argggg I can't do it!!! (Fevre)
Actually it looks much better here than it actually is, the paint has a lot of spider webs and chips. The vette is tired. I am thinking of driving her maybe another year instead of starting the restore this winter. I need to drive more!! :yesnod: :yesnod: :D
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Re: Argggg I can't do it!!! (mpro72vette)
Do a "body-on" resto. This way you get to drive her too!
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Re: Argggg I can't do it!!! (1970 Stingray)
mpro72vette--where in MA are you located, I'm in Northampton, in western MA.
To answer the other question, April to October is about the driving we get up here, although I don't take mine out until May 1. If you wanted to you could drive in November also, since there is usually no snow until December, sometimes even January.
To answer the other question, April to October is about the driving we get up here, although I don't take mine out until May 1. If you wanted to you could drive in November also, since there is usually no snow until December, sometimes even January.
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Re: Argggg I can't do it!!! (Ryan77)
Ryan - I'm up here in Townsend MA, just a little ways from you. We also have daves_rusty_72 in the next town above me in brookline NH. :cheers:
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Re: Argggg I can't do it!!! (mpro72vette)
Just to what I do: Don't ever stop! People always say it looks great when I fly by them, no chance to really look it over like I do. :) Mine ran like crap when i bought so I fiddle with it till a piston blew the second spring I had it. Got a new engine the next Aug, it spun a bearing! I did a half azz rebuild and kept eating the same rod bearing. Sat for another 2 years until I bought I GM crate 350 long block LM1 this last spring and I have drove it almost every nice day this summer. Had to make up for lost time.
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Re: Argggg I can't do it!!! (mpro72vette)
I've got a million things to do to mine and like yours a paint job too but this is my first vette and I HAVE TO DRIVE IT!!! :D I plan on fixing every possible thing along the way and although I would love to take the body off to clean and paint the frame I just don't have the room so I plan on just lifting it straight up and replacing body bushing and painting as best I can and that should be the hardest thing that will keep me down the longest. Funds keep me from getting the while I'm at its so I don't really have that bad of a problem with that at the moment. That's my solution . Although I would love to get deeper into it right now it just isn't an option. Good luck with your resto and godspeed :cheers: