Plastic Fantastic 76 Corvette

[CHJNCSU]

Very Nice work!

[SuperBuickGuy]

it's here, well, it's been here for a week - but last week was busy - so finally got around to pictures...
1968 Corvette it's rougher then I thought it'd be.... but I bought it for the manual innards and the rear window surround (74 up don't have removeable rear windows, this lets me adapt that to my 76)... I'm still considering what I said before - PF4 - but whether this is the car that I start with... it may become a couch
so here we go

this is a clue about why this car is like this... that rod is normally straight - it has other signs it hit something in the front pretty hard


weirdness is the windshield frame looks okay


yet if you look at the roof bar - it rusted apart at the targa


don't care, I got the manual insides I wanted and I have 4 door shells.... and a billion other parts like manual pedals

anyway, next up is get it out and stored (thinking above the bathroom) but for now I need it out because racing

[SuperBuickGuy]

Optima spoiler stands installed

this weekend go play in Spokane and see if I can get a final tune in on it... wish I could have found someone to do the tune (who has a dyno) but whatever, it's not like it's hard
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[SuperBuickGuy]

clean it up, load it up for Optima this next weekend




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[camcojb]

Good luck!

[SuperBuickGuy]

yeah, fun.... day one, event 2


spent a couple hours trying to get it to go back on.... wouldn't go on in a way that I was willing to risk other people's lives... I think what happened was I had fuel problems and the car bucked - that decoupled the pipe and it sheared off the holder then went under the wheel... took a nice gouge out of the fender too.....

and yes, that's racing, I'm disappointed but before that all happened... I was running quite competitively (like leading for a moment competitively)...

[SuperBuickGuy]

removed the last vestiges of Optima 2023.... put the wing back where it belongs

time to start considering what the front is going to look like - I don't think I'm getting enough air for cooling and adding more hp isn't going to help on that front (yes 511 ci is in sight)
time to make the second baffle...

I'm going to fasten this differently - not sure how, yet, but it's important to get this all together

because I dug all this stuff out


Paul's C3 - its motor is about ready to come out and several bits from my C3 are going on his motor...
my plan is to get the hard parts on the motor - though I may get dead stopped because I'm not 100% sure I have an intake gasket