Testing posting picts. Cannot find test forum.

 

 

Gorgeous.

 

Thanks !!

I'm here because I should have my new TL in about 10 days. Just waiting for funds to clear. I was just wondering if I could post picts from the other forum. It works ! The Corvette certainly gets many more than the TL ever will.

Can't wait for my new TL. The Corvette is hibernating for the winter

 

My aunt's late husband has the same one sitting in their garage just waiting to be resurrected. My aunt doesn't want to touch it since it was his baby. I believe that he would of wanted someone to fix it up and get it back to looking like the way it should look. My dad has offered to fix it up, but she doesn't want to.

 

wow, that's beautiful.

 

that's wikid!

 

I understand your Aunt's hesitation in selling his baby. I also agree with you 100% about what your Uncle would have wanted. I'd be willing to bet that your Uncle would take great pride is seeing his baby restored and driving down the road.

Restoration of these cars can be VERY expensive. As a general rule, if you think it will cost 20K to restore the car. Plan on spending 40K and you'll still probaby be a little short.

Ted

 

real nice

 

Test posts like that are always appreciated.

 

sweet ride

 

More pics! More pics! More pics! More pics! Gorgeous, simply gorgeuos!

 

 

Oh baby baby baby that is hot!

 

VERY nice car,............WE WANT MORE PICS.

 

sick!

 

Did you restore it yourself?

 

Nice...

We don't have a test forum here...

 

Nice ride. Let's see the inside and rear.

 

Sweet Corvette...

 

Excellent. My favorite year was the 1966 with the L72 or L74 427. I actually ordered one, but my step-father talked my mother out of signing the note. The car did come in 8 weeks later and was sold off the dealer's lot.

You '64 is beautiful. Which state of tune is your 327 in? What tranny and rear are you running?

In 1999, I saw a superbly restored red '64 (white interior) with the 327/365 solid lifter engine. Raw bird, indeed. I grew up in the '60's and well remember those times and the cars.

 

327 fuelie?

 

I want a 69 corvette badly or a 78 stingray w/a 396 modded for shits a giggles. I love older muscle cars. They are simply the pinnacle of the motoring world.

 

I think this would be my Dad's project after retiring. Right now, he has no time to dare start a project of this magnitude. I do have a feeling that we will get to that car someday and bring it back to life.

btw. the car is in Cali, so that's another little obstacle...but I foresee my parents moving there when they retire.

 

So whats she worth, obviously anyone who has maintained a vette like this knows what they have coming to them at this point.

 

ive been after either a 63 or a 64 since i was 9. i settled on a 67 mustang until i had enough cash to purchase a 60's vette. your car is fucking awesome.

 

My dad used to have a Goodwood Green 67...those cars are ablast to drive!!!!

 

Wow, thanks for all the responses. I was not sure how Acura owners felt about old American muscle. I set out to buy a Cobra replica but the 427 models were out of my price range. I ended up at a classic car auction and when the seller dropped the reserve, it was mine. I paid 26K for the car. It is completely frame-off restored but not to NCRS standards. It was the perfect car for me, as I did not want to pay the 10K premium for “numbers matching” crap. The 327-350HP engine is not original and the Muncie 4 speed is out of a 65’. The rear gear is a 3.70 out of a 67. Riverside Red paint is almost flawless. Paint jobs like this can run 10K-15K on a corvette. I’ve only fixed minor things over the 6 years I have owned the car and it’s probably worth 35K now.

I plan to replace the motor and trans in the next 2 years. I’m planning a 427/434 Small Block stroker at around 550HP/600TQ and a Keisler TKO-600 5 Speed. I’d also like to add A/C for those really hot days with the top up. I’m trying to build the perfect cruiser. Stock on the outside but could turn 10’s with proper traction. I’m planning on around 12-15K for the project. It won’t be cheap but it took me a long time save the money for my dream car. It will be done right.

Thanks for all the compliments. I’ll post some more pictures later.

 

I think you'll find that many people in this particular section may have been brought here because of an Acura, but many no longer own one. Car Talk generally consists of all kinds of car lovers alike, this is by no-means an Acura lovers only site. Those conversations take place in their respective tabs (TL, TSX, CL, etc.)

Welcome to AZ and enjoy your stay!

 

Exactly. If you can't respect American muscle, our heritage, you can't respect anything.

 

First, your car is very nice. I was a chevy guy in my early driving years, and while having my car fixed at the stealership, I still mych remember how much envy I had when Corvette was pulled into the shop.

I had two friends who were roomates renting an apartment. Steve owned a split rear window (63?) white Corvette coupe, and his roomie Bob was a bartender at that time at a very popular bar. These two guys were pretty nuts. They actually put up a small target in the living room, and shot at it with pellet guns. Needless to say, the wall behind the target was full of holes. Hundreds of them. One night, after they got sufficiently liquored up, they decided to go to Bobs' bar, about 10 miles away. Steve somehow managed to total his car, along with three others before ever leaving the apartment parking lot. This caused him a lot of grief-and money. Steve retained the motor and transmission from the corvette. Steve bought a Chevy Vega, which we removed the standard engine and trans from, and we shoehorned in the corvette running gear. The thing was very fast in a straight line, but pretty lethal when going around a corner.

To make matters worse, Steve got plowed again, after the Vega project was complete, hit a center island, which really didn't do much damage, but it knocked one of the wheel "stops", off of one side of the car. This made it possible to turn the front wheels almost 90 degrees opposite to the long axis of the car, making a bad situation even worse. The Vega was fairly quickly disposed of.

Situation #2, and this one is tragic, at least in the terms of machinery. Frank owned a 67 corvette, silver, raised hood trimmed in black, convertable, side pipes, big block with three, two barrel carbs. The thing was a beast! Well, along comes a batchelor party, on a school night, a Wednesday, for a mutual friend, and we attend, and again, the host of the bar we went to was a friend of ours. Let me tell you, pitchers of beer and peppermint schnappes is a deadly combination. After enough of this stuff, about eight of us ended up sitting in the middle of route 176 in Island Lake, Il, playing cards under a streetlight, pitchers and bottles complete. Cars drove around us.

Eventually, the party broke up, and we all went home. Franks' car ended up going into the forest preserve at about 60 mph, destroying the car completely. I couldn't find my car the next morning, and I called a friend to ask if he knew where it was. Once again, this was Bob the bartender. Bob couldn't find his Jeep, either. The cops found Bobs' jeep in a ditch near his apartment, engine still running, headlights on, doors open and the radio blaring.

After reporting my car "stolen", the cops found my car, with a full pitcher of beer sitting on the center counsel, ahead of the gearshift. Back in those days, about 1980, the cops were more tolerant. I shudder to think what would happen if the same happened today.

Just so you know, we have all mended our ways.

 

very nice!

 

That's a beautiful vette.

A 64/65 with proper restoration is worth more than a new C6.

I love the mid 60's vettes, but my favorite year is 56

 

So many memories and since I grew up in the 60's, mine are quite vivid. One of my next door neighbors just finished his 3+ year project car this past summer: a Factory Five replica of the 1966 427 A/C Shelby Cobra (incidently, I have an original copy of the November 1965 issue of Car and Driver with the "Battle of the 427's" article). For power, he's using an engine built by a fellow in Pennsylvania. It's a 302 Ford (of course) bored and stroked to 331 cubes, a Comp roller cam (he's not sure which one), 1.7 roller rockers, AFR aluminum heads, an after marker intake and, of course, headers. Just over 400 dynoed HP in a 2250 pound car, the thing flat cranks.

If you've got the 327/350, you have the L79 327 engine. Hydraulic lifters, 11.0:1 compression.. this engine was also installed in the 1965 Chevelle Malibu and even the 300 Series, and the 1966 Chevy II SS.

Happy hunting!

 

Your friend's big block '67 Corvette brings back memories. In 1966, Chevy made three 427's available for the Corvette. The 390 HP single 4-barrel hydraulic cam medium rise cast iron manifold, this engine was essentially the same engine that was installed in the '66 Chevelle SS 396/360 HP, except for 31 cubic inches. The L72 427 was the solid lifter hi-rise aluminum engine with 425 HP. Then there was the L74 at 450 HP.

In 1967, Chevy offered more 427's. In horsepower notations they were; 390 HP, 400 HP, 410 HP, and 435 HP. The 410 and 435 HP engines were tri-power with the 435 being the L71 engine. And then there was a "special" 427.. the L88 and it's bother, the L89.

I had a cousin who bought a used 1967 427 L71 for his wife (435 HP with tri-power), 4.11 gears, under-the-body chambered exhaust, and an after market cam. His driving record was less than pristine. Anyway, up until just a few year ago, that was the quickest and fastest car I'd ever been in. One night, we were doing 144 MPH on a two-lane country road in upper-Rockville, Maryland. The engine was turning 7400 RPM and all I could think of is if his clutch blows, we're history because the car didn't have a scatter shield. Young people can do really dumb things sometimes.


God, I loved those things.

 

Agreed.

Here's an interesting note. Back in the mid-60's when all of this was going on (the horsepower wars), you never heard the term "muscle car". That was a later "invention" of the 70's.

In the 60's, they were called "supercars" and Corvettes, Cobras, and Mustangs were not in that club. Supercars were midsize coupes such as the GTO, the Chevelle SS 396, the Oldsmobile 442, the Buick Skylark Grand Sport. These were what GM referred to as A-body cars. Just midsize cars with big block engines in a higher state of tune, some suspension goodies, and the appropriate looks.

Ford entered later (1967) with their Fairlane series and the 390 engine. Chrysler was also a late comer, but some will argue that the Plymouth Satellite with the optional 426 Street Hemi made the grade, though it was also generally thought of as being in a "special" class (like the fullsize 427 Chevys).

One other thing. Most people think that Pontiac introduced the GTO in the fall of 1963 for the 1964 model year. But that's not true. What Pontiac did was offer an option for 1964 that the customer could order for the Pontiac Tempest LeMans as the GTO package. They also did this for 1965. It wasn't until 1966 that Pontiac broke the GTO away from the Tempest line and made it its own distinct model.