59 Corvette project getting started - Lateral-g Forums

**extralight** · #1 12-06-2009, 08:12 PM

Would like to introduce my project. Ebay Purchase 18 months ago. Downs body with modified Art Morrison chassis. C6 345mm and 330mm brakes from Kore3/Tobin with initial help from Frank to figure out the Ford Spindles. Drawings done last year from Jason Rushforth. Car will have Ls3/T56 Magnum from Street Rod Engines. Worked on the car slowly over the last 18 months and decided at Thanksgiving to hand it over to the very capable hands of Kurt and Paul at Autokraft. Car will be painted the Blue/Grey from the Aston Martin One-77 concept car if we can get the paint code. Cove will be laid in carbon fiber. Windshield is cut down about 1/2 inch in front and 2 inches in the corners so it will be laid back with only the bottom trim and part of the side a-pillars being used. Small body mods will be done throughout the car.

Forgeline wheels ordered from Frank with 19x11.5 Rears with 325/30 tires and 18x10 fronts with 285's.

Interior will be done by the Tracy at Recovery Room Rod Interiors.

Thanks to the Lateral-G community I went down the C1 vette route after having a check and driving 4 hours to buy a 68 Camaro Convertible

Car will not be a trailer queen and will be driven hard. Looking forward to the feedback and input as we build the car.
First set of pictures.

**XcYZ** · #2 12-06-2009, 08:19 PM

Awesome, I'm really looking forward to seeing it come together at Autokraft. Kurt and Paul are as good as they come.

Romulus · #3 12-06-2009, 09:05 PM

Awesome to see another early Corvette in the works.

Can't wait to see it come together.

Musclerodz · #4 12-06-2009, 09:11 PM

Welcome, looks like a cool build!

RECOVERY ROOM · #5 12-06-2009, 09:39 PM

Looking forward to being part of it.

**waynieZ** · #6 12-06-2009, 09:40 PM

Welcome thats a sweet body style, and an awesome project. It will be very interesting to see it come together.

Bowtieracing · #7 12-07-2009, 12:24 AM

Awesome!!!

Cant wait to see more!!!!

nvr2fst · #8 12-24-2009, 12:59 AM

[QUOTE=extralight;252978]Would like to introduce my project. Ebay Purchase 18 months ago. Downs body with modified Art Morrison chassis. C6 345mm and 330mm brakes from Kore3/Tobin with initial help from Frank to figure out the Ford Spindles. Drawings done last year from Jason Rushforth. Car will have Ls3/T56 Magnum from Street Rod Engines. Worked on the car slowly over the last 18 months and decided at Thanksgiving to hand it over to the very capable hands of Kurt and Paul at Autokraft. Car will be painted the Blue/Grey from the Aston Martin One-77 concept car if we can get the paint code. Cove will be laid in carbon fiber.

You definitely nailed the color choice, hope you have some time on your hands, getting that code is going to be like pulling teeth. I would say the color your talking about is the SANDSTONE BLUE. The Aston Martin 1-77 will basically have five default colors and future owners (only 77 to be built, hence the name) can custom mix hues from that pallet. The owner then gets to name that paint code. The first AM 1-77 owner chose a shade of Sandstone Blue calling it Blue Gibbo. As you can see the possibilities off the Sandstone Blue are endless.

Do you plan on refining the rear wheel well openings and the back end of the car on the body mods. to better enhance the body lines?
I bought my dad a 61 project (a neglected roller) 7 yrs ago when he retired. He recently sold his Austin healey and is now finally doing something with the project and has been checking out frame options. Im looking forward seeing what Kurt does with your car they are not to far north of me.
Dave
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**extralight** · #9 12-24-2009, 05:00 AM

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Originally Posted by extralight

Would like to introduce my project. Ebay Purchase 18 months ago. Downs body with modified Art Morrison chassis. C6 345mm and 330mm brakes from Kore3/Tobin with initial help from Frank to figure out the Ford Spindles. Drawings done last year from Jason Rushforth. Car will have Ls3/T56 Magnum from Street Rod Engines. Worked on the car slowly over the last 18 months and decided at Thanksgiving to hand it over to the very capable hands of Kurt and Paul at Autokraft. Car will be painted the Blue/Grey from the Aston Martin One-77 concept car if we can get the paint code. Cove will be laid in carbon fiber.

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Originally Posted by extralight

You definitely nailed the color choice, hope you have some time on your hands, getting that code is going to be like pulling teeth. I would say the color your talking about is the SANDSTONE BLUE. The Aston Martin 1-77 will basically have five default colors and future owners (only 77 to be built, hence the name) can custom mix hues from that pallet. The owner then gets to name that paint code. The first AM 1-77 owner chose a shade of Sandstone Blue calling it Blue Gibbo. As you can see the possibilities off the Sandstone Blue are endless.

Do you plan on refining the rear wheel well openings and the back end of the car on the body mods. to better enhance the body lines?
I bought my dad a 61 project (a neglected roller) 7 yrs ago when he retired. He recently sold his Austin healey and is now finally doing something with the project and has been checking out frame options. Im looking forward seeing what Kurt does with your car they are not to far north of me.
Dave
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You're very right on the paint code. I asked a Aston Martin dealer for the paint code this summer. I talked to him last week and he did check with Aston Martin and they won't give it out. He suggested starting with a Jaguar paint code. I'm not too worried about it thought because I think the "style blue" is what I'm looking for and want it a bit grayer anyways so I think we'll just end up mixing it until we like it. I want enough grey to work with the Grey centers on the Forgeline as well as the Carbon cowl.

**extralight** · #10 12-24-2009, 05:35 AM

Last week we received the T56 Magnum Transmission and Bell Housing. I haven't seen a T56 Magnum posted in the box but it's quite "purposely" built. It's thick cardboard designed to be very tight around the transmission and the UPS guy said 1 more pound and it would have to be shipped by "crate". I can't say enough about Ron at Street Rod Engines/Regal Performance in Texas. Great deal on the the complete engine/electronics/clutch/tranny package and even better yet he was willing to take the "package" price and let me pay for just the tranny now. Kurt has a mock-up LS block and we won't need the engine for many months so it couldn't of worked out better. We're just waiting for the Morrison Headers and then the Engine will be mocked up with the engine mounts fabricated in. The goal is to push the engine back as far as possible to try and get 50/50 weight distribution.