Hey everyone. New guy here. I introduced myself over on the C3 side, but not here. This is a great site.

Here's the ride!






Curtis

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I agree.

BTW, Love the avatar!

This guy has lost his mind! I'd give him maybe $2500 for it. It would take another $30,000 just to get it back up to a decent driver. $45,000 to $50,000 to make it show worthy. It's amazing what money will do for you...........

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Thanks!

Since I am new here I thought I would give you all some history on my car. I've had a few of you ask some questions so I thought I would throw this together real quick.

I bought the car back in November of 2003 just one day after my son was born, talk about some convincing I had to do to pull that off with the wife! Here's a few shots of it in Detroit where I picked it up









Overall the car didn't look too bad but it had almost ever problem you could imagine. The entire front end had to be rebuilt and rear end was shot as well. I couldn't drive it for a couple months until that was at least done. After I got the poor thing running I immediately put some new wheels and tires on it to give it a better look and added some Hooker side pipes. Cleaned up the engine bay pretty good for an old tired L82. Yes the paint looks pretty good in most of the shots but that was after a ton of buffing and polishing. The black paint was not bad but the body was real wavy and when you looked up close to the car is where you could see the problems. I think I did a good job of hiding most of it through the detailing. It’s hard to make a bad black paint job look good.





I lived with this for a few years until I had the money to do what I've always wanted to do and that was have a kick azz green paint job. When I was very young my dad had a '65 vert that was metallic green and he sold it when I was 17. I knew someday when I had the opportunity I was going to get my own. Of course a C2 would have been nice but that was out of my ball park so my second choice was a C3. I took the car to a guy that I heard a lot of people talk about around Mid Missouri who did a ton of hot rods over the years. He was pricy but well worth it in the long run.












I’ve always like the Stinger hood so I opted for that but still wanted to keep the car’s classic lines. This hood was a pain because the front of it where the spear comes down to a point has very little clearance. I had to remove the stock fan set-up and go with an electric, which I was going to do anyway. Also the radiator core support had to be modified as well and bent down to allow room for the hood to shut. Once the body work and primer was set I ran out of money due to some personal finances that had to take place first. I took the car home in this condition and worked on the undercarriage cleaning and painting until I saved up some more money.








Six month later I had the means to return it to the shop and finish what I’ve been waiting for a long time.







Rolled out of paint booth after buff and polish





If you look close you can see the stinger is marbleized under the paint. It was a nice subtle touch.


The color is House of Kolor cosmic candy green laid down on what you saw was a sliver base coat. As you can tell this thing looks a mile deep and pops like mad in the sun light. There are a lot of Corvettes and not too many that are green. Even more, there are very few that look like this. To complete the look I opted to go to some bigger wheels and added some classic look with the TT2’s.






I had the interior all redone as well. The seats were re-covered in leather as the old ones looked like a rat had its way with it.




A couple of years later I met a guy who eventually turns out to be one of my best friends. Durango_Boy, or as I know him as Matt. This guy and I hit it off great and he has helped out so much with my car I could never truly repay him. He is a huge asset to this site for all of you. We did a stereo upgrade which is phenomenal. We then started talking about an engine swap. It was really the last thing I had left to do. We started with a 350 Vortec out of a 1996 Tahoe. It was a full roller motor which is what we were looking for. We added some RHS heads and a ton of other stuff that I just don’t have time to list. Lets just say this thing wakes up the car a whole lot better than the tired old L82 that was in it. Here some shots of the install. Almost every blanket I had wrapped this car up. No way was I going to scratch this car in the process.










Clean-up time!





Safely in place!








Thanks for your help again DB! This whole process took approximately 5 years to get where it is now. Oh and of course like most of you it’s still not done, they’re never done!

Here’s the little lady that allowed this to happen.




Here's a video I made a few years ago. It was my first so forgive the amateur abilities






Hope you all enjoyed this. I’m glad to be apart of this forum. Everyone has been great!

Sorry to disappoint! I'm the ugly one.........

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Crash,

Thanks for the compliments. You need to come to Columbia on April 4th for the Corvette Cup. I look forward to meeting you!

http://midmocorvetteclub.com/2009_Corvette_Cup.html

Looks like your dad did some serious mods to the car. You said it was a '72. Did you and your dad switch our the rear and front clip to look more like a '75? That was a huge wing on the car. I usually don't like wings on the back of C3's but that didn't look too bad.

Sorry to see it go!

I'm in...........

I think I've seen this car before! As always you amaze me with all your mods.

I look forward to are cruising this summer........

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Thanks a bunch. There are some really nice rides everyone has here. I'm in good company!

This was a fun day!

I miss the Hooters car wash. I can't wait for the weather to warm up. I'm usually very particular about how I wash my car, but for some reason when these little ladies are doing it I don't seem to mind too much!

Thanks Brian! BTW I love your avatar..........

Here's some shots of my old beater!

Hey Everyone!

I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Curtis and I own a 1974 Corvette. This is my first post here. I've spent a number of years over at CF and Digital Corvettes. My good friend Durango_Boy suggested that I come over here and see what this was all about. I've read through a number of posts here and there seems to be a lot of knowledgeable people who like having fun with their cars. I look forward to being apart of this forum.

Enough about me. Here's some pictures of the star of the show.






Curtis1974