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would anybody believe me if I said that a popular car magazine has already taken interest in this project? expect this thing on the front cover when it's done. there are so many tiny details on this 68 that you would never notice them unless I pointed them out. All the way down to custom machined door handles to match the interior chrome trim pieces. Those are custom rims by the way. $2000 hand designed set. Hydro dipped guage cluster and speaker mount. Over $50k has gone into this so far.
I can definitely believe it. Restomods always attract a fair amount of attention (both good, and sadly some bad). Looking good man, hope the rest isn't a huge headache; I effin hate dealing with body work.
No one believes my stuff so here's some other BS that people that aren't me might care about:
Time attack car project @ "Hiding Spot Alpha" (has been sold)
mexico shit from a few weeks ago
Vtines day BS from a friend's shop and their team car
Recently repayed a debt to a good friend of mine so "assisted" with a cam belt service on his Ducati
Also helped him with another bear of a job which I won't get into details of currently, haha.
I'm In the process of finding a body shop/competent body person to get some repairs done on my S2K so I can sell this thing; Still a blast to drive but there's just WAY too much stuff going on right now for me to focus on it. Had it up for sale for a short while and dumb fucks just kept lowballing me and talking about the arguably minor cosmetic stuff and then I also got blasted by rocks so I'm going to attempt to get it fixed the right way.
Got other stuff I need to sell and 2 shells I need to finish parting out, headache headache headache.
I'm basically selling everything I own, actually.
Bought a fuckload of parts for the new daily (mostly maintenance), gearing up to do all that work.
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would anybody believe me if I said that a popular car magazine has already taken interest in this project? expect this thing on the front cover when it's done. there are so many tiny details on this 68 that you would never notice them unless I pointed them out. All the way down to custom machined door handles to match the interior chrome trim pieces. Those are custom rims by the way. $2000 hand designed set. Hydro dipped guage cluster and speaker mount. Over $50k has gone into this so far.
Damn dude, this has come along way. Good work
Ouch, hope nothing else internal got damaged. Not to sound like a smartass/know it all because I know most won't believe me; with a decent cam and other bolt ons that's about what I would have guessed. Still on the stock PCM or are you using HPTuners/Some other form of tuning?
Blackout, pls no. Or do, then throw the shell up on CL for 6K because that's where things have progressed. I'm a big fan of the KA and have made power with them but if the SR is cheap enough to get your hands on, that could go either way.
Got all kinds of BS going on still, not going to bore with my details. Need to put some more stuff up for sale; my spring cleaning going pretty well so far.
Been looking at videos of people who have corvettes and stumbled upon this guy who has a 2016 Z06 and he's only 22. Makes me so jealous
kind of reminds me of seeing a bunch of people in mattoon driving new yukon denalis and escalades. At least they look new.
I'm willing to bet most are financed out the ass.
I set a personal goal several years ago of buying a corvette when I turn 30 but I now realize how much better it would be to own a home.
I'm struggling with all this debt I got from this house renovation. Shit sucks man but at least I know now to not put myself in that position again. But if everything goes well i should have it all paid off by next April. Then I can start paying my Jetta and truck off faster and have my truck paid off by Sept of 2018 which would be right before 4 years. Then depending how things go, planning on buying a cheap house and having my family member who is a contractor gut it and fix it up. It will look way better than any houses around here for way cheaper. Then get a base model stingray.. Z06 will have to wait