Bloomington pics

[Duntov-097]

Heres the pics I promised. Enjoy


Click the link

http://community.webshots.com/album/380851695hxOABY?774

[IH2LOSE]

Welcome home and thanks for sharing the photos,


What is the story behind "the last corvette"

I thinks its real cool you just packed up and left in you car.I wish I could be that sporatic,some times its good some times it bad but every thing I do is well thought out and planned way in advance.If I did not give my sefl at least 3 weeks to pack and plan I would have been in a panic attack the entire drive just trying to think of what I may have forgotten.

[Duntov-097]

Originally Posted by IH2LOSE

Welcome home and thanks for sharing the photos,


What is the story behind "the last corvette"

I thinks its real cool you just packed up and left in you car.I wish I could be that sporatic,some times its good some times it bad but every thing I do is well thought out and planned way in advance.If I did not give my sefl at least 3 weeks to pack and plan I would have been in a panic attack the entire drive just trying to think of what I may have forgotten.

I'm too spontaneous for my own good sometimes. About once every 5-7 years I go off the deep end and go a different direction career wise. In 00' After a divorce I took off almost a year and put 36k miles on my C5 driving around the country. Before that in 95 after a life altering experience I closed my shop and I did the same thing with my 57' Well about a month ago I had enough BS from the french owner of the dealership I ran and quit my job again. So I'm basically bumming around this summer doing a little side work and generally enjoying myself. I have no idea what I want to be when I grow up

I'll probably have to eat cat food when I retire but at least I had fun while I could. I've always done better after these changes but this income will be tough to replace without staying in the car biz. "Sometimes you just have to say WTF " Risky Business"


The last Corvette is really the last 67' built. It is going to be fully restored and auctioned off at Bloomington next year.


I only forgot my shoes and AAA card which I needed when my 2 year old GM alternator took a dump on the way home.

And thanks to the two guys from Pa. with big NCRS on their trailers that cruised by a broken down Vette and never stopped. Peckerwoods. They probably would have just told me everything that was wrong on my car anyway

[Vanity Plate Bob]

Thanks for the pics.

[Tom Bryant]

Great pics. Thanks for sharing. I especially liked the survivor '59. 270 horse and no radio. Almost a twin to mine except for the silver cove and red interior. Mine was all black.

Tom

[Duntov-097]

I love the Survivors. IMHO they are the last of the real Corvettes. Its only original once.

[Tyler Townsley]

Originally Posted by Duntov-097

I love the Survivors. IMHO they are the last of the real Corvettes. Its only original once.

The theme of next years Special collection is "Survivors". If you have one you would like to have in the collection next year send me the specifics and I will forward the information to the selector.

Tyler

[firstgear]

thank you for sharing.....I hope you find something you like to do when you grow up....I do understand the problem.....good luck!

[BarryK]

thanks for the great pics. wish i had been there also to see all the nice cars

[Tom Bryant]

Originally Posted by Tyler Townsley

The theme of next years Special collection is "Survivors". If you have one you would like to have in the collection next year send me the specifics and I will forward the information to the selector.

Tyler

Tell me when the theme is rebuilt cars that barely survived and I'll be there.

Seriously, I haven't been to Bloomington since it was in Bloomington. It looks like I missed a great special collection this year. The Survivors theme may just be the thing that draws me in next year.

Tom

[Duntov-097]

Originally Posted by Tyler Townsley

The theme of next years Special collection is "Survivors". If you have one you would like to have in the collection next year send me the specifics and I will forward the information to the selector.

Tyler

Tyler,

I'm with Tom. I have a 57' racecar that was raced and wrecked, raced and wrecked, and then raced and wrecked some more. Yet it somehow always got rebuilt to race another day. Its a survivor all right just a different kind of survivor Unfortunately just not the kind you're looking for.

[Tom Bryant]

Sounds like my '59. It wasn't raced that I know of but in it's first 10 years before I bought it the car was 5 different colors. Started as all black then red, white, dark green and '68 Safari yellow. It had some major body damage on the left rear and right side I had to repair after I stripped the paint. It's amazing what lengths people will go to NOT repair fiberglass the right way. Most people would have parted this car out back in the early '70s. I bought parts off of cars that were much better than mine that were being parted. There should be a special award for cars that have survived the ravages of owners that just didn't care.

[randomize27]

Great pics....

If you're near Columbia, Mo sometime, stop by the Break Time at Stadium & Ash, and have them call me. I'll get you "discounted" gas for a ride & a chance to take photos of your 'Vette for my photo collection.

(I just added another 18 shots of the yellow C6 in town this morning.)

You can describe me as the Corvette fanatic and they'll know who to call.

[BarryK]

Originally Posted by Tom Bryant

It's amazing what lengths people will go to NOT repair fiberglass the right way.

ain't that the truth! when my '65 was first brought into the paint shop last fall and we stripped off all the old paint we found lots of old repairs that were done wrong. What's amazing is that my guy told me after digging into the old repairs was that they had been started correctly and only needed a little bit more fiberglass applied to complete the repairs correctly but they got 3/4 thru the repairs correctly than gave up and just filled in the rest with body filler. We ended up finding the ENTIRE front of the car from the windshield forward just covered in approx 1/8" of bondo, all of which my painter had to grind off to get to the fiberglass underneath before even finding the beginnings of the previous repairs. He than had to grind out all the old repairs completely and started redoing the body basically from scratch.
Why go thru a repair correctly 3/4 of the way and than screw it up on the last parts of it??!! doesn't make sense to me other than stupidity or laziness.

[Tom Bryant]

I should have saved some of the pieces of shoe box and window screen I took out of my right door lock pillar. I guess they needed something to smear the bondo over though.