A little about me.  I'm a mechanical engineer from UW Madison.  I have 50 years experience in tube audio.  I've been working and building cars for 45 years or so.

Found my 1972 Corvette on ebay last October.  My wife, Mary, was gone for the weekend with friends and I spent a few hours looking at neat cars on ebay.  I decided to do a search starting in Wisconsin and the Corvette showed up in La Crosse.  Saw it on Saturday, drove to La Crosse on Monday, went back with a car hauler on Tuesday and brought it home.

The car didn't run, didn't stop, was full of water, and the interior was rotted out of it.  It had not been driven in a couple of decades, I found out why as I took it apart.

Complete new interior went in first, found a correct radio on ebay, fixed it, along with a new clock.  Took the interior apart down to the fiberglas, all wiring removed, the dash went in the bathtub.  All the vents and parts went through the dishwasher.  Rebuilt the seats, new seat belts, all new window, door, and top gaskets, as well as the gaskets in the rear vent.

From there all new exhaust, new calipers, hoses, and master cylinder.

As far as not running, turned out the motor was rebuilt many years ago and a Crower cam was put in.  The trouble was the Crower cam was ground 10 degrees retarded by mistake.  The motor had no vacuum no power, wouldn't even run the power brakes.  The quadrajet was warped from overtightening, etc. A new "Howards" cam and lifiters and a Holley Spreadbore have solved most of the problems.  I will be installing new valve springs in the next couple of days which should solve the remaining issues.  Then I'll rebuild the quadrajet and put that back on.

Tires were 25 years old, they were replaced yesterday.  Went for the first 100 mile trip yesterday.

Bought a tilt wheel on ebay this morning.

That's about it so far, thanks for the welcome.  I hope to add to this site as I can.

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