Brothers

[TFoch]

Nice ride!

[sixball]

I like it both ways. That is a nice car and I bet fun to drive.  Very clean looks. I raced a '58 Vette in my aunts '56 Chevy 4 door. I was a sleeper even it it's later days. It had a dealer installed performance package because she hated her '55 wagon with a 235 automatic.

[sammons]

Sixball, i bet it was a slug with the glide. When my Aunt got divorced in the mid 60s, her Ex bought her a an old ladys '57 210 4dr sedan. It was a 235 3speed, ugly as sin. White/blue top skirts/sunvisor, low mile and clean. The thing was slow as all get out.
Now my Granddads '59 Elcamino that I ended up with had a 235 3speed and it seemed to have a lot of power. He pulled a double horse trailer all around to Rodeos no problem. When i got it it would still smoke the crap out of the tires. I put in a '65 327 4 bbl and m21 4speed and it wouldn't anymore till i changed out the rear end gear from the 3:36 to a 4:11.

[Essex_29]

Dang, you guys have had some cool cars!
So different from here, my dad had a '65 Simca 1000 and a '62 Opel Rekord. No way to smoke the tires on these cars, if you didn't litterally light them on fire 

I bought my first American car in 1985 at age 19 before going to the Army, it was a 1965 Plymouth Valiant with a 225 and three on the tree. It was awesomely fast. At least compared to my '70 Corolla.
Car culture in Finland...
I've owned over 30 American cars since.

[sammons]

Seems a little slow around here lately, i guess everybody is busy with other things.

Brother got as far as he cam go on his 73 RS/LT Camaro with out making decisions of orig vinyl top and the additional chrome trim the car came with, then blowing back apart for paint. He has other projects he wants to get on and just doesn't have the time or money to advance on it. He listed it for sale earlier this week and sold it yesterday.

Now maybe he can get back on his 66 Vette coupe😁

[TFoch]

Nice Camaro.  I like those gen II Camaros!

[sammons]

Me too, the earlier the better. I'd really like to have a 1970 Z-28/RS.

[sixball]

Yes. Early Camaros are really good looking, especially the plain ones. When my wife & I were looking for our first new car in 1970 we looked at one but because she was in a full leg brace it was hard for her to get in it. So we bought a Blazer. Still have them both!

[sammons]

My buddy bought a red 70 Camaro from a lady around 1976. She was a bankers wife and ordered it new. Rumor had it she ordered a Z/28 minus the badging, 15" wheels and all the performance stuff.

About the same time another buddy bought a bone stock 71 K5 Blazer, white/black top with lower body trim and white wall mudgrips and the full wheel covers. It was a good looking rig, always liked that one.

[sammons]

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.

[EDNY]

Double the fun - Nice....57-58 Vette on my dream list.

[sammons]

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.

[sammons]

My Golden is in seventh heaven, he just loves his uncle😁

[sammons]

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.

[sixball]

WOW! That is a beauty! Just as it should be.