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Old Jan 5, 2011 | 09:17 PM
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Hello! I finally bought my first corvette. Wanted one for at least 10 years. I bought a 2005 rag top with the Z51 package, it is a dream, black. It had 4400k miles when I bought her, now a few hundred more.
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Welcome to the Forum!!!!!!!! Congratulations on your C6!! Wow, only 4400 miles? Great find. Enjoy the car and the Forums.
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The car was not for sale, however the car that I was looking at sold, the seller told me about this vette that might be coming on the market. The rest was history. It has been raining in CA for the past several weeks off and on, the best I can do is sit inside it and continue to smile as I pretend to drive!
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The car was not for sale, however the car that I was looking at sold, the seller told me about this vette that might be coming on the market. The rest was history.

Very !!!!!!! Makes an even better story.


It has been raining in CA for the past several weeks off and on, the best I can do is sit inside it and continue to smile as I pretend to drive!
Rain??? What's that??? We know nothing about rain up here.
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question... the 1982 cross fire engine with fuel injection seems to be an engine with a pain... I want to know if I can go back if I can go back to a carburetor engine.. And what do I have to do... What is involved, have anyone made the conversion back to carburetor and what are the steps to making the change?
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the 1982 cross fire engine with fuel injection seems to be an engine with a pain... I want to know if I can go back to a carburetor engine.. And what do I have to do... What is involved, have anyone made the conversion back to carburetor and what are the steps to making the change with the 1982 crossfire engine?
Earl, who is, A' Montgomery
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