Brothers

[TFoch]

Great looking Vette!

[sammons]

Brother and i got the hardtop off to beable to start trying to load some of the extra parts in on top of the convertible top. So... we took one last short cruise together and out to cemetery for one last picture with dads marker.

Now got to figure out if we can get all these parts loaded somehow while leaving enough room for the transporter to still drive the car for loading/unloading.

Lol, if your wondering why the hood isn"t latched down.. .. i haven't seen it latched since the early 80"s. Dad did a lot of parades and it helped keep the engine cool on those hot days. We are scared to try it right now. We did PB blatster the crap out of the cables ,latches and everything seems free.... but, a thing to check once its back to his house.😁

[sammons]

Brother got all the spare parts loaded, every nook and cranny filled. I think it's ready for the shipper, just hope he gets here before my brother has to go back home.

Found a few Vette books and my old IGO office plaque. I gave him the IGO sign off the front of the shop already on one trip back here. He will still have to get back and get the red/white stripped panels that ran upright that ran from the top to the bottom of the side of the building.

[sammons]

Got my brother back on the plane yesterday morning amd he made it back home. When i got back from the airport, poor old dog stood staring at the door waiting for brother too come back in for an hour. This morn he is sitting staring at his bedroom door.

The shipper for the Vette should be here within the next two weeks to get it out to him. He got most of my stuff done for me. Ran out of time to finish the chassis swap on my mower. Did get the engines and wiring harnesses swapped. The V-twin just about gave him a hernia lifting it out.  I have all winter to swap bodies and tire/wheels over.

[sixball]

We can deal with our wives running of with another guy but our dogs? Now that hurts! 

[sammons]

I got the rear bodys and tanks off for the chassis swap yesterday. I've been having hard to shift issues on both the newer red mower and my old green one. Had my brother drive both to see how shot my steering was and the shift thing. He said a bit stiff on shift and steering on my old green, red one steering was easy and he thought shifted fine.
I got down to where i could access fill plug and the red one only had an 1" of gear oil. My old green one had less than 1/8". I'm guessing they slowly leaked out over the last 2 decades, who knows if it was full when they delivered them new. No wonder it was hard to shift. The rubber fill plug was tough to get out, dosen't seem to me that you could even access it with the body/tank on.

[sammons]

Geeze, spent way too long on the net trying to find transaxle gear oil capasity. Finally... 16oz or up to 1-1/2" down from top of fill hole.  Lol, one site said 2.5qts🙄

So went to parts house for a qt of 80/90. Put half in each and that did bring the up to 1.5" below fill plug. I thought it was hard to get that rubber plug out.... way harder to get it back in.

Dog was still with the sad eyes gloom about my brother leaving yesterday. But today he is back to his goofy self. Had to holler at him twice for doing zoomies in the house.

Yesterday

[sammons]

Well the shipper picked up the '58 early this morning. Was scary watching it get raised up on the stacker.

Brother should get it Weds.  Lol then i can breath easy🙂

[sammons]

Dang, the transporter had a great trip. Got to L.A. early and made 2 deliveries there, then called my brother to see if they could deliver early, 2 days early. So a short 54hrs after it left here my brother has it safe at home😁  We'll both sleep easy now!

[sixball]

That is good news. That car is so cool! Good it is still in the family.

[sammons]

^^^^^^^Thanks! I caught a lot of flak for giving it to him.  But it stays where it belongs and i haven't driven it in 10 yrs. Somethings aren't about the money.  I did drive it out of the shop over to the transporter. All i could do to turn it.

We don't get to see the Northern lights down here in southern Kansas, rare. But it was a good one .

[sammons]

Brother got the '58 up on the lift to start degreasing it. Lol, he got out the air needle scaler out and got 67yrs of dried up grease off, 11 lbs of it.
Today he got the degreaser out and then presure washed it. Man what a difference. He said he's got pleanty of leaky things to fix before he gets to start repainting under there. Yep, it went to the right place😁

[Rattiac]

That's awesome it went to a great home. Such a cool car.  Probably the only era of vette I like.
Speaking of Vettes,  my dad's is still in my garage.  Been trying to sell it but had only two guy's that actually came to see it.  One dad that was gonna give it to his 17yr old son.  I said,  he'll kill himself in a week.  A bunch of teens called I told them the same thing,  so I kept the price high to ward them off.  They can afford 5 grand but not 7g's.
It's been quiet since the gv shutdown and hopefully now that is over I'll have some calls. Has 500 views and 25 favorites.
Just need to find that one older guy that won't lowball me.
Anyways,  so cool you got to see the northern lights,  can't see em in Utah. 

[sixball]

They saw the Northern Lights in Reno (near). I am on the wrong side of the mountain. I agree about Vetts the last one for me was '62.

[sammons]

Rattiac, hope it turns around and it will sell before long.
Don't blame you on selling to kids. Lol, dad sold a 64 vette to a 2yr older friend of mine when he was 16-17. It had a pretty hot 350 in it, (out of his 64, transplanted in my first 57), he didn't want him to hurt himself so he re-adjusted the throttle rod so it only got 3/4 throttle. A friend of his was helping him tune it up 6 months later and discovered it. He was pissed😁 Later he said holy crap, i might have hurt myself.

I lost interest on vettes after the 72 model year when they went to rubber bumpers.