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C3 Tech Tip - Tachometer Needle Bouncing?

Does the tachometer needle on your 1968-’74 bounce and not give a steady reading? Does your tachometer just not function? The tachometers on these Corvettes are cable driven from the distributor. The cable, like a speedometer cable, will wear and cause the needle to not hold steady because the cable ends are worn. Replacing the inner cable or the complete cable and casing will resolve this problem. For tachometers that do not work at all, it’s most likely because of the tachometer gear inside the distributor.  

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Code L88 - Part 1

The L88 Corvette is a car that, for the most part, hid in the shadows. But it actually cast a big shadow on the American muscle car scene as well. Oh, if you were keeping a close ear to the ground, you knew about it. But if you didn’t pay attention, it came and went in a flash. The reason for its existence was that Zora Arkus-Duntov, the chief Corvette engineer, was chagrined that Ford got all this publicity for winning the 24 Hours of LeMans. Yet he knew that Chevrolet had a durable engine in the 427 and yearned to make it available for racing. But he had one problem - Chevrolet, officially, was not in racing. 

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Code L88 - Part 2

Part 2


Buyer Beware:

Nasty con men have been known to machine off the original RPO non-L88 numbers and re-stamp new ones. Your best bet is to find a reference source that shows if the RPO code matches the casting number. We’d also highly recommend investing in an NCRS Specification Guide covering the model years you’re interested in. The rarest and most valuable item to document a Corvette is the car’s build sheet, which was applied to the gas tank during assembly. It’s not easy to get at, but obviously worth searching for if it means authenticating the car.

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Summer Corvette - 1972 LT1 Convertible

My name is David Way. I’m a retired auto shop owner who is Corvette crazy! I've loved Corvettes since I was a young man and saw the movie Corvette Summer. If you’re familiar with that movie, Mark Hamill had a wildly customized Corvette, and it always brings back old Corvette memories for me. I've had so many Corvettes throughout my life that I’ve lost count. I loved them all and had a blast working on them and driving them!

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A Hero’s ’67 Corvette

Take a leisurely drive down US Highway 1 on Florida’s east coast and you’ll pass through the small town of Titusville. For dozens of miles, this highway makes its way along the shores of the Indian River. If you look across the river at Titusville you’ll spot the VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building) – one of the largest structures on the Cape; home of NASA. For years Cape Canaveral was the center for rockets, space travel and astronauts!

Some towns have superstar athletes. In the Cape Canaveral/Cocoa Beach area, we have superstar astronauts. One of the most famous of those was Neil Armstrong. After all, Neil was the first man to walk on the moon – who could forget, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

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1997 C5 Corvette: The Black Sheep

This 1997 C5 Corvette sleeps by day and terrorizes by night

A first glance at this C5 gives most people the impression of “Cool, another C5 with wheels and exhaust tips. Another C5 ’Vette.”

Taking a closer look, you notice the Nitto Drag Radials sizing up at a whopping 305/45/R18. That’s over a foot of rubber on the ground. Once the car is started, it sounds like it has a bad alternator– screeching and whining… then roaring to life.

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1955-57 Chevy Air Ride Front Strong Arm Suspension

One of the things I see as most admirable and effective about the 1955-57 Chevy is the suspension design. It was the first of the strong, lightweight, open driveline, modern IFS (Independent Front Suspension) cars that GM would do so well with for many years after. This IFS was very well designed and in many ways a better design than later GM IFS.  I believe it to be superior by far to the 70's and 80's GM IFS, for example. For that reason, this suspension was more often upgraded as technology advanced rather than replaced. Racers and rodders both found that to make them shine on the roads and on the track only took a bit more tweaking instead of heavy modification (like sub-framing).

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1955-57 Bench Seat Relocation Brackets

That front seat just won’t go back quite far enough, will it? We must be giants compared to the people back in the 50s... or perhaps we have all gotten a little bigger around the equator in our old age. Installing a tilt steering column can make things even tighter as they are slightly longer than the stock column. Or perhaps you have a floor shifter that hits the seat and you just don’t want to change shifters or modify the seat. A simple solution is to relocate the seat further back in the car. But, if you move the seat back on the floorboard, the rear legs of the seat tracks will drop off the seat platform and lean to the rear. Plus, new holes would need to be drilled in those nice stock floorboards. Classic Chevy has developed a simple bracket system that bolts to the floor using the stock mounting holes. The seat will be relocated toward the rear of the car 4”. Best of all, no new holes will need to be drilled in the floor.

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A 55 Chevy that finally comes alive!

I first fell in love with the Tri-5s in 1955, when I was five years old. My dad, Jay Kirk, was employed as a salesman at Mantes Chevrolet in Tooele, Utah. A friend of his, Bud Pendleton, used to drive over to our home in a Coral and Gray '55 Chevy two-door Bel Air. I would just stare at the car, thinking how it was the coolest car in the world.

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Project Car: 57' 210 Chevy

I bought this ’57, 210 2-door sedan about 15 years ago for $500.  Originally a 283 power pack 3-speed car, it had been converted into a race car.  While loading the car on the trailer, I noticed it was equipped with a Dana 60 4.11 posi rear, sweetening the deal.  I remember “Hot Rod Magazine” around 1974 built a similar ’57  210 2-door sedan drag car that used a Dana 60.  I stored (more like buried) the car in my storage building, while I finished other ’57 projects, until about 2 years ago when I started the restomodification.

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