well thought id throw this on up there as its a semi cool story and its consumed my life
this car is a 1963 corvette fuelie that has not moved in the last 50 years. the guy (extended family ) parked it in '71 when he couldn't get $1200 bucks for it. best part is i had been at his house bs-ing with the guy a decade ago for thanksgiving and he told me to go look around the basement. low and behold in the basement (old farm house with a dirt floor basement garage) was this old vette. i remember thinking oh cool but its just a vette and moving on. little did i know.................
fast forward to last fall when he passed i was talking to my father in law about about the story and a little to my surprise he said can we get it. a cross country pandemic trip later we had it, a few favors and it was moved to a friends till we could get it out of bfe ohio and out to vegas. turns out he bought it new so its a one owner fuelie with both tops and 50k miles.
so for the last 9 months this car has consumed my life. its not so much a restore as getting it back on the road and frame off later. frame is rusty but solid, i have rebuilt the trans, top end of the motor, rear end, entire brake system, exhaust, rebuilt fuelie, wheel bearings you name it. The paint is meh and has a lot of issues but polished up half nice. now im waiting on a radiator that fedex has lost twice and it will be ready to fire! then i can get my bird back!!! ( been at the in laws since this arrived.) so between work, having our first little one and this car man its been a crazy year!
i will say this car has brought a lot of first for me lol, a pressure plate rusted to the input shaft so bad i had to cut the bell housing, so much debris in the valves the motor you couldn't bar it over and more specialty tools than i ever wanted to make. but it was a cool journey. still need to cut the springs and ext.
we surprised him on Christmas with it, i have been doing over time on this to try to make it happen and not letting him know i have made this much progress.