33-Year-Old Corvette With 13 Miles On It For Sale In Plymouth

[JOES66FURY]

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/10/21/33-year-old-corvette-with-13-miles-on-it-for-sale-in-plymouth/?hpt=us_bn4

Did I get tree'd on this too?

[squirrel]

“The car had everything original, even the battery, and it fired right up."

bullshit....

[Brian Lohnes]

Perfect light, Joe!

[Bamfster]

Is it wrong of me to want to cut it up and turn it into a ProStreet car?

[ford141]

Is it wrong of me to want to cut it up and turn it into a ProStreet car?

Not in my mind...

[DanStokes]

Kind of offsets the Million Mile Honda, no?

Dan

[Stich496]

this is why corvette people suck, another car that should've been driven, sat, and now will never ever get used, it's go trailor to trailor owner to block to owner.. what a waste,

there is a 10th anv. t/a with like 8 miles on it.. if I had the money I'd buy it and drive the friggin wheels off it..

[Mater]

i want to buy drive it cross country and change the intake and heads and sell the originals just to prove a point and piss people off


my grandpa i think is the only vette guy that drives his. it;s only a 1979 covrvette L82 but he drives it and enjoys it. has 79,000 last i checked

[tardis454]

Boogie Nights 2, Return of Dork Diggler's Disco Vette

[Brian Lohnes]

Too bad that pig is so slow it would take about 5 minutes to accelerate to a speed where the dust would blow off.

[bulletproof]

in stillwell okla,the chevy dealer had 2 of those vettes on the show room... his son took one out for a spin one night.. the other never moved....it was there a few years ago.... the placed closed never heard what happened to the car...

[dulcich]

I don't see any reason to slam these cars, they are really pretty cool. So, the stock 350 was a little soft; BFD the engine is a small block Chevy. You can dump in whatever you want as easy as can be. In 1978 it was just about as good as it could get given the state of the art in MoTown and the regulations of the era. Almost as quick as a D100 Dodge with a 360 (quickest quarter mile time for a domestic in 1978), and pretty close to a 440 Monaco four door cop car (fastest car in top speed for 1978). I like the C3 a lot more than the C2 for driving; to me it just feels a lot more "right" behind the wheel. The upright position in the C2 feels downright primitive in comparison, like perching on a log in a CJ2A Jeep. The 70's Chevrolet Corvette ranks as perhaps some of the greatest automobiles ever produced in the USA.
-dulcich

[Brian Lohnes]

No doubt that the black and silver paint scheme on these is handsome (Like the Hurst Olds a few years later), so the stocker exterior should stay, but the motor should get a little wake up call.

A solid axle and some 275 drag radials on the back would be good too.

[Barry Donovan]

Too bad that pig is so slow it would take about 5 minutes to accelerate to a speed where the dust would blow off.

I would not even use the block, cam, or heads..

intake, distributor, the mounts for accessories... all good.

[dulcich]

No doubt that the black and silver paint scheme on these is handsome (Like the Hurst Olds a few years later), so the stocker exterior should stay, but the motor should get a little wake up call.

A solid axle and some 275 drag radials on the back would be good too.

Although I prefer the tunnel rear window of the cars prior to 1978, I agree that you could call these cars "handsome". Well chosen word there, Brian. It is so easy to add power to these cars, it isn't even an issue. I, however, being somewhat a purist, would tend to encourage keeping the IRS.

BTW, I don't want to have to start a new thread, but when in the hell are you going to let Brutus bask in its glory and pull out that ridiculous 54-inch stump?! I've already laid out the HUGE lead-up; all you have to do now is hang those 30K winches for the heroic glory.
-dulcich