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I don’t know how y’all feel about white cars, but this one just does it for me. In Benson NC for sale. https://car.dealeraccelerate.net/vehicles/851/1964-chevrolet-corvette

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I was just telling my wife today that the Corvette has been all downhill (in my eyes) since the Stingray. More capable, maybe. Faster, certainly, – but where are you gonna use that capability? To my way of thinking, this one is just about perfect for fun factor. They are proud of it though!
 
Red Marley said:
I was just telling my wife today that the Corvette has been all downhill (in my eyes) since the Stingray. More capable, maybe. Faster, certainly, – but where are you gonna use that capability? To my way of thinking, this one is just about perfect for fun factor. They are proud of it though!
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This shop used to be up in Apex, and right before I bought that ’04 Cobra in 2017, I stopped in to look at a convertible ’65 Vette. The difference between this white one and the one I went to look at was, it was a very nice “survivor”, with a very acceptable, and “honest” finish. Had a good top on it and it was the lowest HP offering of the small blocks (327). But the tq was very simialr on all those 327 variances that Corvette offered in the mid ’60’s, and that’s what you really feel on the streets, rowing through the gears.

Anyway, it was $44,000 versus twice that amount for this stunning example pictured above.

But what I learned is, without tilt wheel, I just can’t operate the third pedal in those cars. I’m too tall. Later model Vette’s are in fact much more “roomy”.
 
Not a corvette fan at all but that’s sexy.
 
I have had a lot of older muscle cars including Corvettes. I just prefer the comfort, power and modern Conveniences of today. The mid years are my favorite but I just care for the old technology any more.
 
Red Marley said:
I was just telling my wife today that the Corvette has been all downhill (in my eyes) since the Stingray. More capable, maybe. Faster, certainly, – but where are you gonna use that capability? To my way of thinking, this one is just about perfect for fun factor. They are proud of it though!
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Idk, but this would be me afterward

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Mechanical fuel injection is awesome.
 
Majicmike said:
I have had a lot of older muscle cars including Corvettes. I just prefer the comfort, power and modern Conveniences of today. The mid years are my favorite but I just care for the old technology any more.
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That’s why my dream car would be a restomod.

I would love to have something like a 67 firebird or the like with a modernized suspension and interior.

There is just something about the look and feel of the old body styles.
 
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Chdamn said:
That’s why my dream car would be a restomod.

I would love to have something like a 67 firebird or the like with a modernized suspension and interior.

There is just something about the look and feel of the old body styles.
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Only I’d want it carbed. No injection, so you can have a radical enough cam to scare women and small children, and make chihuahuas shiver.
 
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Chdamn said:
That’s why my dream car would be a restomod.

I would love to have something like a 67 firebird or the like with a modernized suspension and interior.

There is just something about the look and feel of the old body styles.
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I think if I could wrap a C3 body around a C5 Z06 running gear I would have about the best looking useable Corvette around.

Corvettes were nothing but pretty to look at, and the C4 not even that, until the Z06 C5. It was the first one that was a really good sports car that had power, and a good transmission, and could keep the tires on the road, and was comfortable to ride in and could sniff 30 mpg on the highway.


That's a cute little roller skate, but I'll take seatbelts and airbags thank you.
 
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@fieldgrade if you buy it, I promise to drive it around behind you while your on your bike. You know in case your bike breaks down and you need some help 😁
 
That's a couple of years too new for me. The pre-Stingray Corvette is one of the very few Chevrolets I would care to own. (But not at that price, or anywhere near it.)
 
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I think if I could wrap a C3 body around a C5 Z06 running gear I would have about the best looking useable Corvette around.

Corvettes were nothing but pretty to look at, and the C4 not even that, until the Z06 C5. It was the first one that was a really good sports car that had power, and a good transmission, and could keep the tires on the road, and was comfortable to ride in and could sniff 30 mpg on the highway.


That's a cute little roller skate, but I'll take seatbelts and airbags thank you.
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You are clearly too young to remember any of this. Some of us were around when these were new.
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Barf speaks the truth … especially Rochester MFI can be a pain! I’d rather tune a quad carbed Italian car than deal with a Rochester MFI system with a sucky vacuum attitude.
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My boss told me about his super duper sweet mustang that had the throttle stick, while he was driving onto his base. Thought he was gonna get shot while putting in the clutch and brake to slow down while it was also red lining.
 
Red Marley said:
I was just telling my wife today that the Corvette has been all downhill (in my eyes) since the Stingray. More capable, maybe. Faster, certainly, – but where are you gonna use that capability? To my way of thinking, this one is just about perfect for fun factor. They are proud of it though!
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The Stingray is the best of all of them. In 1963, a neighbor bought his son a new 'Vette. A convertible, not a split window, it was gold, 327/360, 4 speed. I was 11 years old and he stopped by to let me see it. It was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. Thomas asked if I wanted to go for a ride up the road and back. Heck, yeah! I went to ask mom. Both families knew each other well. Mom was a teacher, Thomas' mom was a teacher and, his dad was a principal, all at the same elementary school. Mom gave the OK.

Thomas took us up the road, smooth and easy through the gears, just like on a Sunday drive. I was trying to take everything in, from the wooden steering wheel to the sideways radio. We went about 5 miles up the road and turned around at an intersection and headed back. As soon as Thomas got the car straight in the road, he nailed it, it was a long straight stretch of road. That Rochester was sucking air, tires were spinning, and Thomas was grabbing gears. I was watching the tach and the speedometer and they both were going crazy. I split my jaws from a very wide grin. Thomas shut it down after we had reached Mach I.

That was the day that I found out I had gas and oil in my veins. I had never experienced anything like that. It made a lasting impression on me.

This was the second Corvette that Thomas had owned. His first was a blue and white 1958. He went on to work for NASA and got a new Corvette every year. He had a 1967 Tri Power one year when he came back home. I haven't seen him since then. I'd like to tell him just what kind of impression he made on an 11 year old kid.
 
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Yep … the wayback seating of childhoods lost!

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My first remembrance of any kind of wagon was a new International TravelAll. Dad sold tractor parts for big red before running the dealership in Charlotte up on hiway 16.

Then a late ’50’s Rambler wagon. Then a ’64 Ford Country Squire, NEW, WITH AC, and that back, back seat. I learned to drive in that car, and was POed when he sold it.
 
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