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Hello from Columbus!
Hello from Columbus, OH! My wife and I are new owners of her Dad’s 1975 Corvette. It’s sat in a barn for the past 18 years.
Currently, the car is with a friend, Clint Coffman, getting the basics ironed out. Running and safe first. Then moving forward with interior redo.
The car was my father in laws midlife crisis car, and shockingly he let my wife drive it when she was in high school. He gave it to her as a gift and were super excited to get it back on the road.
Clint was a class act, coming down with his rig from Mansfield to Portsmouth to pick the car up on a Sunday back in early June.
While I’m waiting to get her back, I’m studying Lars papers on recurving the timing and other mods to improve performance. The exhaust was fixed to true dual sometime in the 90s. Looking forward to participating in this forum!
Thanks,
Mark
Currently, the car is with a friend, Clint Coffman, getting the basics ironed out. Running and safe first. Then moving forward with interior redo.
The car was my father in laws midlife crisis car, and shockingly he let my wife drive it when she was in high school. He gave it to her as a gift and were super excited to get it back on the road.
Clint was a class act, coming down with his rig from Mansfield to Portsmouth to pick the car up on a Sunday back in early June.
While I’m waiting to get her back, I’m studying Lars papers on recurving the timing and other mods to improve performance. The exhaust was fixed to true dual sometime in the 90s. Looking forward to participating in this forum!
Thanks,
Mark
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Congrats on getting the ‘75 and good luck getting it back in shape. And welcome to the forum.
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Welcome to the forum, Mark, and congratulations to you and your wife on now owning her father's '75! 
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Thanks to the forum for he warm welcome! I participate in a jetboaters forum and am seeing similar friendliness here that I see there. Shout out to Coffman corvette in Mansfield to getting me started with a power life on getting things into shape with the car. I’ll start a new thread in the c3 section soon.
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