New member (SW Ontario - pics added #13)
Hello,
My name is Dan and I am the new owner of my dads vette. Thanks Riley P and CCO for helping me post onto the forums...I never did receive the activation email.
About the car (the story)...it's a '72 454 auto, numbers matching, pewter, T-top. My dad purchased it from a GM employee in late 1973 and has owned it since. If anyone here belonged to the corvette club back in the late 70's/80's they may have known my dad. Back in the 80's my dad would run the car at Sparta (I was the little kid back then that would guard his parking spot). He loved bracket racing, and wanted to be as consistent as possible, and with an automatic, that also helped the cause. He started with the carb and intake, mapped/balanced and blueprinted the motor, added headers and a side exit exhaust and kept every factory piece safe and sound. In the 90's we updated the valve covers with the "454" emblemed ones and for his 60th birthday I purchased him a new set of hooker header.
Being that I was a "car kid" growing up caught the mod bug myself and went a different route with my summer car (1999 Mercury Cougar). Since his passing this past New Years eve, I have taken on the vette in rememberance of my father. In fact, his love of the car was so strong that I placed a hotwheels replica of his car in his ern, and he will have a very unique grave marker on the way from Australia (it will be worth posting pics of).
So hello....I look forward to meeting some of you, and will likely be posting random questions regarding the car as there were a few things I might need help with learning on this car. My dad has HUNDREDS of corvette magazines and manuals, so if anyone wants to sit down with me looking through 60's 70's and 80's vette mags let me know LOL....
Thanks for listening,
Dan
Hello,
My name is Dan and I am the new owner of my dads vette. Thanks Riley P and CCO for helping me post onto the forums...I never did receive the activation email.
About the car (the story)...it's a '72 454 auto, numbers matching, pewter, T-top. My dad purchased it from a GM employee in late 1973 and has owned it since. If anyone here belonged to the corvette club back in the late 70's/80's they may have known my dad. Back in the 80's my dad would run the car at Sparta (I was the little kid back then that would guard his parking spot). He loved bracket racing, and wanted to be as consistent as possible, and with an automatic, that also helped the cause. He started with the carb and intake, mapped/balanced and blueprinted the motor, added headers and a side exit exhaust and kept every factory piece safe and sound. In the 90's we updated the valve covers with the "454" emblemed ones and for his 60th birthday I purchased him a new set of hooker header.
Being that I was a "car kid" growing up caught the mod bug myself and went a different route with my summer car (1999 Mercury Cougar). Since his passing this past New Years eve, I have taken on the vette in rememberance of my father. In fact, his love of the car was so strong that I placed a hotwheels replica of his car in his ern, and he will have a very unique grave marker on the way from Australia (it will be worth posting pics of).
So hello....I look forward to meeting some of you, and will likely be posting random questions regarding the car as there were a few things I might need help with learning on this car. My dad has HUNDREDS of corvette magazines and manuals, so if anyone wants to sit down with me looking through 60's 70's and 80's vette mags let me know LOL....
Thanks for listening,
Dan
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