Okay nice people, here's the story. My last Corvette was in 1965 when I owned a '62 roadster. I traded it in the next year for a '66 Chevy II cause back in those days Corvettes were just another old used car. So here we are forty nine years later and I now have a '65. Moved up three years....A friend of mine half A##d put this car together back in the eighties, then just drove it around once in a while. He pulled it into his garage sixteen years ago and it has not been started since. I've asked him about it a couple of times over the years but all I got was "you can't afford it" or, "I'm gonna give it to my kid". Well, I know his kid and if HE wanted it, he would have got it a LONG time ago. A few weeks ago he tells me a pile of drunks were in his garage trying to drink up all his beer and one of them tells him that he would give 20K for what was under that cover. My buddy says "add a bunch more". That was the end of that conversation! Shortly after that he tells me that in six days he's getting in his car and driving to Florida (he has a house down there and we're in Ohio) and NEVER coming back. Well, I don't know about that, BUT....WHY....I DON'T KNOW...I told him that I would give him a GOOD check for what that other guy offered him and not a penny more. "Get that thing out of your garage so your wife can finally park her new car in there". A couple more beers and he says "call me in the morning and bring your checkbook"! Title, Notary, Plates, insurance, AAA, rollback and it's now in my garage. OH MY...Why did I do THAT????

Anyway, this is what I bought: A '65 roadster with both tops (he had the hardtop shipped from California) By the way he said "I spent STUPID money on that thing". He had it painted the '66 color Mosport Green (That's a whole other story), New leather interior, new carpet, bumpers and trim re-chromed locally, Re-pop knock offs, new nylon Firestone tires and other stuff I've already forgot. The motor is a 327/300 HP that has been rebuilt by his brother (My friend who has been building race motors for thirty years), Muncie 4speed and who knows what rear gear. So far it's numbers matching (I haven't found the numbers on the rear end yet). I finally got the hardtop off and pulled the soft top out of that hole where it has rested for sixteen years. OH MY....IT SHRUNK! I had a devil of a time getting that baby latched. It's still in pretty nice shape except for the back window and part of the weather-stripping. It needs a lot of winter project TLC.
MY LIST; seat belts, tach, emergency brake, odometer, radio has static but not plugged in to the power antenna. The frame looks to be in pretty good shape as somebody has slapped black paint all over everything. It runs and drives okay but I could probably replace every piece of rubber in the chassis if I get ambitious. For me, this will be only a driver as I do not have the space or the desire to do a frame off. Maybe the next guy! Well, what do you think? Did I get hurt too bad?

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What the heck happened to my pictures? What did I do wrong?

 

Hello fellow Vette Lovers; I don't know why I never joined a Corvette Forum;I have been on the internet since 1999 and have owned Corvettes since the Late 60's. I guess better late than never. I owned a 69 L88 back in the early 70's. If any of you have old "HOTROD" Magazines I believe there is a picture in 1973 of it when they had a readers page on the last couple pages and you could submit your car. I can't remember which month it was in because all my HR Magazines are long gone; but it was probably in the Summer Months(june-july-aug)

The picture was just a small B&W and the caption said Montana Mover. If someone could find this it would be pretty neat to see again. That Car was very Nasty. I put Chromed Hooker header and sidepipes with the glass pack inserts so it would make some real HP over the OEM Exhaust System. Not really a Streetable Car and with 4.11 gearing I wouldn't want to have to pay what we do today for Fuel as the Gauge moved toward the E rather quickly when you did full throttle runs. I wish I would have kept the Car when I see what their fetching now days but that's Life...

 

Welcome aboard, nice looking ride!!!!!

 

welcome to the forum!

 

Nice looking care you've got there

Congrats & welcome

 

Great looking ride! Welcome to the forum from MN.

 

This was the last St.Louis Vette I bought. Had one of the most terrible paint jobs of any Car I owned. Even complained to the Regional Rep. I carefully massaged the orange peel out and it ended up not too bad. Bowling Green Paint facility is state of the Art. Wished all pre 80 vettes could have been painted in that facility...S.M.

 

Welcome to the forum from So Cal !!!

 

Congrats and welcome aboard. She is a beauty Enjoy!