Planning has started in earnest for the tear-down and completion of my 1961 Corvette. I aquired the car Memorial Day weekend, 1996, and did a Paul Newman Car Creations http://www.newmancarcreations.com/ chassis over the winter of 1997-1998. I've been driving the car in gray primer since then, and have worn out the red interior over the past dozen years. The car has been a 10 month daily driver, and has made road trips of 1,000-6,000 miles without fault. Over the years the car has been to the drag strip, road course, autocross course, and has done a few open road races. It's a driver. A very fun driver. It's now seeing cruising duty on the Pacific Coast Highway, and making the car show circuit in SoCal.
High level plans for the winter are to clean up the body and get the car painted Red with White coves. The interior will be refreshed, and I'll fabricate a custom center console for the car. I'm looking for a L33 Gen III small block chevy, with the good LS6 heads and aluminum block to shave another 100 lbs off the car, and boost the power 20%. While I've got the car apart, I'll also replace all the wear items on the suspension and give the chassis a deep cleaning to ready it for the next decade of driving.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
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