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This book covers every aspect of restoring your C3 Corvette that you will need to know, including:. Picking up a CarTech book is quickly becoming a no-brainer.
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Jam-packed full of color photos and easy to follow directions, this book will not let you down. An absolute must for the Corvette enthusiast, I highly recommend! You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account.
Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. This book covers every aspect of restoring your C3 Corvette that you will need to know, including: Look around windshield posts, panel cut-outs and wheel-well lip areas for tell-tale signs of wear-related stress cracks.
Also, as a general rule, a color change is a deal-breaker for a lot of folks, so find a car that is painted in a factory color that turns you on. If you can do this yourself, great, if not hire a reputable mechanic; preferably one who is familiar with Corvettes.
Money well spent, we think. Turn off the radio and take the car on side roads and the freeway.
Take note of any clunks, smoke, valve train noise, or sloppiness in the steering, transmission, or brakes. Create a tally of what your monthly costs will be to participate in the Corvette hobby without going broke. Corvette Online has researched the best of them for you here. These models are the holy grail of the C3 production run. They have undiluted Mako Shark show-car styling, no emission controls or safety bumpers, and came from the factory with motors ranging from mild small-blocks to hairy, tri-power big blocks.
They are the last of the golden era of Detroit muscle and are coveted by collectors.
Model years are distinguished by cross-hatch fender vents, fender flares and rectangular exhaust cutouts. Factory side exhaust, hardtops, and P02 full wheels covers add value as well. The best selling year goes to the , over 37, units sold. Several milestones are noted in these years although not for the better. Engine choices dwindled as well with the L emerging as the hot engine. Buyers loved the styling and bling and as long as it had an adequate V8, they snapped them up in droves. GM sold more than , C3s during this period.
For the first time since , the Corvette enterprise was helmed with new vision.
After years in a holding pattern, Corvette was heavily refreshed for It sported a wraparound glass window that vastly improved storage capacity and evoked mid-year nostalgia as well. Not much more than a standard Corvette with two-tone paint and tape stripes, but they nonetheless took the market by storm in The gamble to delay a redesigned Corvette for paid off for GM, which sold almost , units in these two years alone.
Corvette production in nudged past the 50, unit mark for the first time. Not bad for a year old design with amortized tooling. These were the swan song years for the C3.
The last Corvette built in St. Louis was in August, While timid compared to todays Vette, these are nice riding and driving models.
It was the only engine available that year and put out horsepower mated to a new four-speed automatic transmission. Chevrolet kept the sales needle pegged and moved more than , units in three years. The Clown Car Factor - C3's seem to have attracted more than its fare share of horrifying customization.
We think the stock styling is hard to improve on. We're all for making your car a personal statement and hey, it's a free country. But maintaining the value of a C3 without adding fuel to the mullet car reputation is the best way to go. What are these cars worth? The collector car market fluctuates from year to year and is influenced by the economy and the whims of the hobby.
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