Really? Not even a parts car. More like a pile of damaged parts. 
Needs Total Restoration !
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Burning Brakes
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From: Ontario
Needs Total Restoration !
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Yep TOTAL is a good word for it. If your looking for a project, or a laugh you could always get this one....http://anchorage.craigslist.org/cto/5911262565.html
Team Owner
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Yep TOTAL is a good word for it. If your looking for a project, or a laugh you could always get this one....http://anchorage.craigslist.org/cto/5911262565.html
Those are spy photo's of the 2018 "RetroVette".
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From: At my Bar drinking and wrenching in Lafayette Colorado
There are a lot of really sweet Corvette restoration projects out there. Pick any one of these, and you'll have many hours of Vette enjoyment (scroll down on the page):
http://autosource.biz/Ad/1965_Corvette.htm
(For those of you running rubber fuel lines on the pressure side of your fuel system, make note of the numbers of Vettes with "engine fire"...)
Lars
http://autosource.biz/Ad/1965_Corvette.htm
(For those of you running rubber fuel lines on the pressure side of your fuel system, make note of the numbers of Vettes with "engine fire"...)
Lars
Last edited by lars; Dec 22, 2016 at 04:25 PM.
Team Owner
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From: Virginia USA
There are a lot of really sweet Corvette restoration projects out there. Pick any one of these, and you'll have many hours of Vette enjoyment (scroll down on the page):
http://autosource.biz/Ad/1965_Corvette.htm
(For those of you running rubber fuel lines on the pressure side of your fuel system, make note of the numbers of Vettes with "engine fire"...)
Lars
http://autosource.biz/Ad/1965_Corvette.htm
(For those of you running rubber fuel lines on the pressure side of your fuel system, make note of the numbers of Vettes with "engine fire"...)
Lars
Funny you say that about rubber pressurized fuel lines, that is the very first project I did when I bought my Vette. The steel line going from the pump to carb had been cut at some point and a rubber hose fitted. The fist thing I thought of when I saws that was WOW, that's not too safe even with only 6psi. I drove home for the first time and that was the very first part I ever changed on my Vette. Good advise as usual Lars
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From: At my Bar drinking and wrenching in Lafayette Colorado
Funny you say that about rubber pressurized fuel lines, that is the very first project I did when I bought my Vette. The steel line going from the pump to carb had been cut at some point and a rubber hose fitted. The fist thing I thought of when I saws that was WOW, that's not too safe even with only 6psi. I drove home for the first time and that was the very first part I ever changed on my Vette. Good advise as usual Lars
There are a lot of really sweet Corvette restoration projects out there. Pick any one of these, and you'll have many hours of Vette enjoyment (scroll down on the page):
http://autosource.biz/Ad/1965_Corvette.htm
(For those of you running rubber fuel lines on the pressure side of your fuel system, make note of the numbers of Vettes with "engine fire"...)
Lars
http://autosource.biz/Ad/1965_Corvette.htm
(For those of you running rubber fuel lines on the pressure side of your fuel system, make note of the numbers of Vettes with "engine fire"...)
Lars
...and keep in mind that these are all, according to the seller, "easy repairable salvage cars..." You can't go wrong..!
Last edited by lars; Dec 28, 2016 at 06:16 PM.
Team Owner
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The car went to a salvage yard, where it was auctioned off, and some "used car hustler" bought it for $9000, or so, and is trying to sell it as an "easy repairable car". They started off at $23k, and they're now down to $20K.
However, to repair the car PROPERLY, will take $36K, according to the evaluation by the insurance company and body shop. Repairing aluminum cars isn't cheap, and can't be done by any body shop in town.....
