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Hello I am Bob from Thomasville, NC. 
I am going to post up a thread about the work I am doing on my car so I thought first I would introduce myself and my car before I did. I have been a member for a while (pretty much since I bought the car), but have been working on other projects and only lurking on here.
When I bought my 1977 Corvette in Aug of 2012, I was not looking for a project, as I already had too many projects at the time. I wanted a good looking 4 speed, weekend driver, cruise in car. I would prefer numbers matching, better than a 10 footer but not looking for perfect, like I said a driver, and I do like to tinker so some small fixes would be good. I only looked for a C3 as I knew deep down that is what I truly wanted; I just love the long front end with the big rolling fenders. I was not concerned so much about engine size small block v/s big block, yes, I would prefer a big block, but was a great concern, as this is going to only be a cruiser car.
We looked and looked for a car in the budget range I had set for myself. Every car we looked at we compared to the very first one we looked at. The problem was it was at the very top of my budget, but looked to be exactly the car we wanted. So after looking at one too many wore out vettes we went back to look at the first one again. This time I took cash with me in hundred dollar bills and a few twenties to make the stack look fatter. I made him a very lowball offer and he made a counter offer. I didn’t budge off my offer (I was going to hold out just a little before I went up) instead I talked a little and then showed him the stack of greenbacks. Much to my surprise he took the offer, and I had just bought my first Corvette!
A 1977 light blue with dark blue interior, L48, 4 speed, A/C, numbers matching, driver car.
Since I got an awesome deal on the car I didn’t mind the oil leak at the valve covers and oil pan. I did notice that the car really was not very fast, or quick, but let’s face it ’77 is one of the low horsepower years, and I am not going racing so it would do just fine, and I was very happy.
As I started to plug oil leaks I would fix one and fine another. All of them were small, nothing major wrong at all, just a few gaskets.
Then after replacing I think all the gaskets I started to see oil in the air cleaner! I know enough to know that is not good. Sure enough I had positive crank case pressure. 
First thing I did was check the PCV valve. It checked good, but I replaced it any way. It didn’t even start to help. I made a few other checks and determined that I had ring problems. For me this was a big letdown since I got such a great deal on the car. I could have a basic rebuild done on the engine and maybe boost the HP a little and still come out well within my set budget. 
All in all I still feel like I got a great deal on a car that fit what I was looking for almost perfect. The biggest problem was I had several other projects going on at the time so the car would have to set in storage for maybe a year or so until I could get the time and garage space to do it and do it right.
Look for my engine rebuild and engine bay thread to come.
I am going to post up a thread about the work I am doing on my car so I thought first I would introduce myself and my car before I did. I have been a member for a while (pretty much since I bought the car), but have been working on other projects and only lurking on here.When I bought my 1977 Corvette in Aug of 2012, I was not looking for a project, as I already had too many projects at the time. I wanted a good looking 4 speed, weekend driver, cruise in car. I would prefer numbers matching, better than a 10 footer but not looking for perfect, like I said a driver, and I do like to tinker so some small fixes would be good. I only looked for a C3 as I knew deep down that is what I truly wanted; I just love the long front end with the big rolling fenders. I was not concerned so much about engine size small block v/s big block, yes, I would prefer a big block, but was a great concern, as this is going to only be a cruiser car.
We looked and looked for a car in the budget range I had set for myself. Every car we looked at we compared to the very first one we looked at. The problem was it was at the very top of my budget, but looked to be exactly the car we wanted. So after looking at one too many wore out vettes we went back to look at the first one again. This time I took cash with me in hundred dollar bills and a few twenties to make the stack look fatter. I made him a very lowball offer and he made a counter offer. I didn’t budge off my offer (I was going to hold out just a little before I went up) instead I talked a little and then showed him the stack of greenbacks. Much to my surprise he took the offer, and I had just bought my first Corvette!
A 1977 light blue with dark blue interior, L48, 4 speed, A/C, numbers matching, driver car.Since I got an awesome deal on the car I didn’t mind the oil leak at the valve covers and oil pan. I did notice that the car really was not very fast, or quick, but let’s face it ’77 is one of the low horsepower years, and I am not going racing so it would do just fine, and I was very happy.
As I started to plug oil leaks I would fix one and fine another. All of them were small, nothing major wrong at all, just a few gaskets.
Then after replacing I think all the gaskets I started to see oil in the air cleaner! I know enough to know that is not good. Sure enough I had positive crank case pressure. First thing I did was check the PCV valve. It checked good, but I replaced it any way. It didn’t even start to help. I made a few other checks and determined that I had ring problems. For me this was a big letdown since I got such a great deal on the car. I could have a basic rebuild done on the engine and maybe boost the HP a little and still come out well within my set budget. All in all I still feel like I got a great deal on a car that fit what I was looking for almost perfect. The biggest problem was I had several other projects going on at the time so the car would have to set in storage for maybe a year or so until I could get the time and garage space to do it and do it right.
Look for my engine rebuild and engine bay thread to come.
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Hello I am Bob from Thomasville, NC. I am going to post up a thread about the work I am doing on my car so I thought first I would introduce myself and my car before I did. I have been a member for a while (pretty much since I bought the car), but have been working on other projects and only lurking on here.
When I bought my 1977 Corvette in Aug of 2012, I was not looking for a project, as I already had too many projects at the time. I wanted a good looking 4 speed, weekend driver, cruise in car. I would prefer numbers matching, better than a 10 footer but not looking for perfect, like I said a driver, and I do like to tinker so some small fixes would be good. I only looked for a C3 as I knew deep down that is what I truly wanted; I just love the long front end with the big rolling fenders. I was not concerned so much about engine size small block v/s big block, yes, I would prefer a big block, but was a great concern, as this is going to only be a cruiser car.
We looked and looked for a car in the budget range I had set for myself. Every car we looked at we compared to the very first one we looked at. The problem was it was at the very top of my budget, but looked to be exactly the car we wanted. So after looking at one too many wore out vettes we went back to look at the first one again. This time I took cash with me in hundred dollar bills and a few twenties to make the stack look fatter. I made him a very lowball offer and he made a counter offer. I didn’t budge off my offer (I was going to hold out just a little before I went up) instead I talked a little and then showed him the stack of greenbacks. Much to my surprise he took the offer, and I had just bought my first Corvette! A 1977 light blue with dark blue interior, L48, 4 speed, A/C, numbers matching, driver car.
Since I got an awesome deal on the car I didn’t mind the oil leak at the valve covers and oil pan. I did notice that the car really was not very fast, or quick, but let’s face it ’77 is one of the low horsepower years, and I am not going racing so it would do just fine, and I was very happy.
As I started to plug oil leaks I would fix one and fine another. All of them were small, nothing major wrong at all, just a few gaskets. Then after replacing I think all the gaskets I started to see oil in the air cleaner! I know enough to know that is not good. Sure enough I had positive crank case pressure. First thing I did was check the PCV valve. It checked good, but I replaced it any way. It didn’t even start to help. I made a few other checks and determined that I had ring problems. For me this was a big letdown since I got such a great deal on the car. I could have a basic rebuild done on the engine and maybe boost the HP a little and still come out well within my set budget.
All in all I still feel like I got a great deal on a car that fit what I was looking for almost perfect. The biggest problem was I had several other projects going on at the time so the car would have to set in storage for maybe a year or so until I could get the time and garage space to do it and do it right.
Look for my engine rebuild and engine bay thread to come.
I am going to post up a thread about the work I am doing on my car so I thought first I would introduce myself and my car before I did. I have been a member for a while (pretty much since I bought the car), but have been working on other projects and only lurking on here.When I bought my 1977 Corvette in Aug of 2012, I was not looking for a project, as I already had too many projects at the time. I wanted a good looking 4 speed, weekend driver, cruise in car. I would prefer numbers matching, better than a 10 footer but not looking for perfect, like I said a driver, and I do like to tinker so some small fixes would be good. I only looked for a C3 as I knew deep down that is what I truly wanted; I just love the long front end with the big rolling fenders. I was not concerned so much about engine size small block v/s big block, yes, I would prefer a big block, but was a great concern, as this is going to only be a cruiser car.
We looked and looked for a car in the budget range I had set for myself. Every car we looked at we compared to the very first one we looked at. The problem was it was at the very top of my budget, but looked to be exactly the car we wanted. So after looking at one too many wore out vettes we went back to look at the first one again. This time I took cash with me in hundred dollar bills and a few twenties to make the stack look fatter. I made him a very lowball offer and he made a counter offer. I didn’t budge off my offer (I was going to hold out just a little before I went up) instead I talked a little and then showed him the stack of greenbacks. Much to my surprise he took the offer, and I had just bought my first Corvette!
A 1977 light blue with dark blue interior, L48, 4 speed, A/C, numbers matching, driver car.Since I got an awesome deal on the car I didn’t mind the oil leak at the valve covers and oil pan. I did notice that the car really was not very fast, or quick, but let’s face it ’77 is one of the low horsepower years, and I am not going racing so it would do just fine, and I was very happy.
As I started to plug oil leaks I would fix one and fine another. All of them were small, nothing major wrong at all, just a few gaskets.
Then after replacing I think all the gaskets I started to see oil in the air cleaner! I know enough to know that is not good. Sure enough I had positive crank case pressure. First thing I did was check the PCV valve. It checked good, but I replaced it any way. It didn’t even start to help. I made a few other checks and determined that I had ring problems. For me this was a big letdown since I got such a great deal on the car. I could have a basic rebuild done on the engine and maybe boost the HP a little and still come out well within my set budget. All in all I still feel like I got a great deal on a car that fit what I was looking for almost perfect. The biggest problem was I had several other projects going on at the time so the car would have to set in storage for maybe a year or so until I could get the time and garage space to do it and do it right.
Look for my engine rebuild and engine bay thread to come.
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