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I bought a Corvette Orange 1977 last week and brought it home but I have not done anything with it yet. It has been painted white but has good bones to work with so I think I will take it from its current state to the same as my previous 77 that I have missed since selling it. Here is my 77 target. I'll post pictures of the starting spot soon.
Lots of work from start to finish on this one but we will start this winter.
You gotta love this hobby!! Good luck David...don't forget to ask if you are missing items....I think we all have parts and pieces we would love to donate!
The orange vette looks great .I can see why you a going to paint it that color .How many vettes have you had over the years David . You sound like a top bloke mate going by all your posts and all the parts you have given away. Good job .
You gotta love this hobby!! Good luck David...don't forget to ask if you are missing items....I think we all have parts and pieces we would love to donate!
Steve
Thank you for the post. I know I am going to be needing an antennae and wire to see if I can get the radio working again. Interior changes have to be assessed and a plan of attack needs to be developed.
I'll get the car up on the lift soon and give it a thorough inspection. If anyone out there that knows me would like to look the car over with me and do an inspection with me to find what is good, and not so good, on the car, let me know. Be glad to use this one to help folks learn more about their own cars.
I bought a Corvette Orange 1977 last week and brought it home but I have not done anything with it yet. It has been painted white but has good bones to work with so I think I will take it from its current state to the same as my previous 77 that I have missed since selling it. Here is my 77 target. I'll post pictures of the starting spot soon.
Lots of work from start to finish on this one but we will start this winter.
David, is that your orange '77 in the picture, or just a great picture you clipped and saved? (I clipped it a few years back myself and couldn't remember who's it was, but loved the picture.)
It always reminded me of the '77 Corvette brochure pictures from back then.
Thank you for the post. I know I am going to be needing an antennae and wire to see if I can get the radio working again. Interior changes have to be assessed and a plan of attack needs to be developed.
I'll get the car up on the lift soon and give it a thorough inspection. If anyone out there that knows me would like to look the car over with me and do an inspection with me to find what is good, and not so good, on the car, let me know. Be glad to use this one to help folks learn more about their own cars.
David
Sounds like Corvette school! I think a lot of people would be interested in that!!
Very cool sir!
David, is that your orange '77 in the picture, or just a great picture you clipped and saved? (I clipped it a few years back myself and couldn't remember who's it was, but loved the picture.)
It always reminded me of the '77 Corvette brochure pictures from back then.
Good luck... GUSTO
That picture was my Orange 77. Now it lives in Missouri. I will have another one, a plan is born.
The '77 Corvette was my first new Corvette, but I bought it as a leftover so didn't have the opportunity to pick the color... orange would have been my choice.
The '77 Corvette was my first new Corvette, but I bought it as a leftover so didn't have the opportunity to pick the color... orange would have been my choice.
Mine is the one on the left.
GUSTO
Nice looking Have you made changes to it or have you left it stock?
Nice looking Have you made changes to it or have you left it stock?
Unfortunately it is the one Corvette I've owned that I never fell in love with. It was a loaded car that was wonderful on the highway, but no 4-speed, no L-82 and no gymkhana suspension.
I sold it in 1984 with 6,000 miles on it to buy a C4. That's a car I did fall in love with and still have. It now has a little over 8,000 miles and is all original. It's still a thrill to drive each time I take it out.
I never modified the '77, but I did buy a set of Corvette Sport Mirrors to put on it. I never got around to installing them, but hung on to them anyway. In '88 I found a '73 convertible with a 4-speed to put them on and bought it! Go figure I guess. I still have it and even did a body off restoration on it in the early 2000's. Another one I've fallen in love with.
found that ad interesting, recommending lubing the suspension every 7500 mi never would have guessed.
Also said 3 spd auto could be shifted manually. Valve body any different than the typical trans or just sales fluff?
I know mine (L-48 auto) could be shifted manually, but I don't know if it would have held it if the rpm got too high or I lifted. I also never tried to pull it down into low gear unless I was almost stopped.
I do know a friend had a twin of my '77 (the car on the right in the photo in post #12) that he autocrossed a lot. His was also an L-48, auto (turbo 350) and he definitely would hold it in 2nd gear until he was ready for it to shift. He had to have it rebuilt with about 40k on it and the shop owner who was also a friend of ours, told him he needed a new transmission as his was not worth rebuilding. I seem to recall that they convinced him he needed to step up to a turbo 400 if he was going to keep driving it the way he did.
GUSTO
06-30-2017, 07:40 AM
New Addition To The Family
Enjoy the summer, and plan on the winter.
