I've been at it in the garage a few fairly short evenings, making some progress on the endless fenders.
Last night I felt I was doing good, had it all welded, ground and done, save for a little piece in the front
that I'm planning on doing later, to have it connect nicely with the running board.
New fender edge pieces, inside and out, even the tail lip done. Looked pretty good to me right then.



Today after dinner I went out in the shop and was going to start working on the left hand side inside
fender edge, when I realized that I have to start over. The fenders don't look the same, and I much
prefer the left fender, as the right hand one looks too tightly tucked behind the wheel. If you look
closely you might notice that the wheel sits a bit further back on the right hand side. The body is not
square in a way that I think would be impossible to not be a factory defect.
Fact remains, so I just have to make the best of it.



Two steps forward, one back...

Great looking Vette!

My hats off to Tom again. He re kitted those carbs at night after work, and adjusted them here at the table. Brother took them down to the shop and put them on, primed them and the Vette fired right up and idled perfect. He drove it back to the house and started cleaning up the 9yrs of dust/dirt off.

The old girl cleaned up well. Hard to believe the old lacqure is still holding up since i stripped and painted it in 1978. He got it cleaned and took it out for a quick cruise and stopped at cemetery to see dads grave. After he give a full throttle to open up the secondary carb. Said everything was great.

Brother got the new master cly on, boy i forgot how tight that was packed under the edge of the front fender. He went to break all the brake bleeders loose before i got there to bleed the brakes and found a nut holding one of the front spindle mount way loose. My uncle must have forgot that one when he put new king pins in back in the mid 80s🤯

I got there and we got the brakes bleed, got a very good firm pedal right off the get go. About the easiest i've done with out the pro pressure bleeder.

Boy that car got grubby after 10yrs under the car cover. Found some more C1 parts in a big box i forgot about. He busted the plastic button on the old brake light switch so got a new one off the shelf in the old stuff at the parts house across the street. Got installed amd tested all the lights. Hell all worked except for the right high beam, but i have one here at the house.

Tom came over tonight and tore the secondary carb apart to soak and kit tomorrow night. The bottom throttle blade plate is cast iron and those blades are froze solid, got that soaking in some diluted muratic acid mix.

Brother flew in Weds night. Then friday it was time to wake up the '58 Vette from its 10 year sleep. The master cly was screwed, the carbs were stuck. It took nuratic acid to free up the lower carb blades. Tom got it fired up, but the accel pumps were dried out and sluggish. Ordered carb kits, new master cyl.

We went down to the shop thursday too find all the new and used parts that i had bought a couple of decades ago. I actually found them all.
 Took primary carb off and appart, soaked and came over last night to put it back together. Brother went down to shop few mins ago to pull seconday carb off so Tom could kit it. They got new inner tubes in the tires so the old wide whites would hold air. Hope the master cyl gets in tomorrow. Brother still hasn't got a confermed pick up time for the transporter to pick it up and back to Cali.