David Conwill
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Is that a Vortec 350? Looks like it's going to fit pretty well in there. What's the plan for exhaust manifolds?
-Dave
-Dave
It's delightful, it's de-lovely, it's DeSoto, and it's on eBay! The churn of the car collection continues. I'll post this one in Classifieds but thought one of you guys who follow this thread might be interested in checking it out.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/DeSo...298QQitemZ140517986968QQptZUSQ5fCarsQ5fTrucks
Is that a Vortec 350? Looks like it's going to fit pretty well in there. What's the plan for exhaust manifolds?
-Dave
Really,Orange huh..? Not even on my list of tolerable colors! Is that the Chevy Standard for that decade? You guys got any other options for me. I'm not trying to hide the fact that it'll be Chevy, rather proud of my choice and reasons but Orange is fugly!
How about Blue!? Help me out here!
They used Chevy Orange on the V8's all the way up until the 70's. In the late 70's/early 80's, Corvette engines were blue.
My brother is hot rodding a '77 Corvette, which currently has a blue engine.
-Dave
Can anyone recommend a good racing school?
The last year for the name 'Stingray' or 'Sting Ray' was 1976, btw.
Ive had an on-and off emotional relationship with the Corvette over the years. I first became aware of them when I was 7 because my 9-year-old next door neighbor's brother had a silver '67 convertible. That car was just the bee's knees in my, and a lot of other kid's eyes. My friend and I were allowed to play Batman with that car. Since he was older than me, and it was his brother's car, I was always Robin, but I got to sit in the Vette!
When they changed the body in '68, I loved it until they lopped the cam tail off in '74 due to the polyurethaned safety bumper needing to be the furthest thing out back there, and also probably for style changes. It seems you couldnt leave anything alone for more than a few years in Detroit back then. Until the recent cars, that was the end of the car's heyday for me, and now, Im not too terribly excited by them, either.
There used to be a T-shirt that said, "sure they made Corvettes after 67, but who cares!" Presently, now that I am older, I wish I had bought an early Blue Flame, I can appreciate straight 6s.I'd love to have a 67 Stingray with the 427, on average they go for more money than other 'Vettes. They have such mean lines! Not to mention, that 427 is a heck of a motor!
There used to be a T-shirt that said, "sure they made Corvettes after 67, but who cares!" Presently, now that I am older, I wish I had bought an early Blue Flame, I can appreciate straight 6s.
Presently, now that I am older, I wish I had bought an early Blue Flame, I can appreciate straight 6s.