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I'll believe that price for a 1LT coupe. By the time they tack on all the various incentives, they should be close to 40k.
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Thanks! I still think so:
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Not saying it means much - just saying you have to do it if you want those stickers on the windshield ...
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We have 42k on the 'vert - low for a C5 'vert, but high for a 50th Anniversary 'vert. People still tell us our Anniversary Red paint can't possibly be stock.
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Good morning, all. Grey and dreary in Philadelphia this morning.
Lots of writing on the agenda for today. In slightly more glamorous news, the plan for my birthday weekend (coming up) is to drive all three of the Corvettes. No big trips this year - just around the 'burbs.
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... brings a smile to my face.
Took her in for the annual Pennsylvania state inspection and an oil change yesterday. She needed new wiper blades to pass inspection, but that was it. This car has been solid. The 1985 has its brutal charms and the 2012 is stunningly competent, but Grace was our first and she's still my favorite.
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I like the color. The cloth sports seats are relatively unusual. I'd be more trusting of the interior and mechanical bits if the seller had bothered to focus the camera. 66k is high mileage for collecter purposes - almost to the hooptie level of the 70k on my 1985. For $4,900 somebody got a 205 bhp L83 with an A4. Now they have to decide what to do with it.
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I was a member of the NCRS, but am no longer one. The first edition of the 1984-1986 judging guide did have a bunch of errors, but any conscientious C4 judge (and that describes almost all that I met) has a many annotations and updates in their copy. The C4 team leaders have also been able to photograph many of the strange early C4 exceptions (my early 1985's emissions label placement, for example). I am confident that the second edition will be far superior and I will purchase it, even though I'm no longer playing that game. Any NCRS judging guide is intended as a starting point - no more. When judging, I would routinely tell owners not to change anything unless they were sure it was wrong. Despite the intentions of McLellan to get the C4 right the first time, there were hundreds of changes just in the first three years. Only starting to judge a lot of cars in a somewhat rigorous fashion would bring these differences to the fore. So, kind of a chicken and egg thing. In hindsight, it might have been better to write the C4 guides from the ground up instead of basing the format on the late C3 guides. However, this wasn't easily knowable: adding mid-years and sharks had been done that way and it had worked out. The later C4 judging guides are far superior - in particular, the 1990-1996 guides are excellent.
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I concur - however, I'll try. I took my mother back and forth to church in the 2012 Centennial Edition, not really because it was Mother's Day, but rather because my father is working at the Commencement exercises at the University. I think mom likes the CE, but I think she is a little fazed by the exhaust and the racing strips: certainly a little different from the glamorous quiet ride that is the 2003 'vert or the flat out age of the 1985.
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Mike would be a significant reference for just about anything C4. During my seven years in the NCRS, I never saw this.
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Good afternoon, all!
A quiet weekend at home, for which I am grateful. My left knee seems to be getting back to normal after last Sunday. We've never seen the rocking seat issue on our 2003, but we've got a lot of friends who've had it.
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Definitely a full life.
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Good morning, all!
Back at work today, knee now fairly functional.
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At 10 mile run can leave your knees in a condition that leaves that impossible.
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Yep, Andy - you are right: that is geeky. I'm only that geeky with the home system. Just for your amusement (and because you already got a good response), our three Corvettes and their sound systems:
1) 1985: Stock and completely functional Delco-Bose (radio, cassette) - never listened to except during judging or when preparing for judging (when I drive the car I feel I need to hear if anything is falling off it). 2) 2003: Stock (except for iPod2Car interface) powerful but unrefined Bose (radio, cassette, 12 CD changer) which I will confirm can be heard clearly with the top down at 80 mph (which seems to have been it's design brief). Used mostly on long road trips. 3) 2012: Stock but finally respectable Bose (radio, single CD, native and usable iPod input), upgraded for 2012. Now nine speakers. Still no sub-woofer, but two improved 10-inch woofers. Ivelis uses the stereo a lot more than I do and she really likes it.
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Good afternoon at all. At home recovering from yesterdays' 10 mile Broad Street Run.
The report: 1:46 and change for Ivelis, 1:51 and change for me. In my defense, I'm having significant left knee issues. Still ran better than last year - Ivelis a lot better. Landscaping looks good, Matt.
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Good morning, all. Cool but gorgeous in Philadelphia today.
Posted on: 2012/4/30 13:09
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Thanks for the pics!
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Good morning, all!
My wife dropped me off at the airport this morning - flying out to Austin (via Dallas) on business. I'm sending from 33,900 feet, somewhere near Paducah.
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Looks really good!
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Cool pics - gotta try that someday: does anybody ever run totally stock?
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Good morning, all!
Expecting serious rain today, so trying to get everything done early.
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The second generation versions are prettier, I think.
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We're definitely fans - if they make it for any of our cars, we buy it. We had these trays in the 2012 during the winter: and have had this in the 1985 for a long time (it looks better with the graphite interior):
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There's a lot of space under that hatch. Not like a truck, but worth making a stop. We're a little more comfortable dumping stuff in there because we have one of these mats: I'm actually still sometime surprised at how much you can get into the 1985.
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Good afternoon, all.
The wife and I went over this morning to see a good friend's (we've been friends since second grade) one month old baby girl. His almost three year old son came out to see the 2012, so he got some seat time - though he had to stand up to hold the steering wheel. We're doing our best to corrupt him. Afterwards, we got five bags of two cubic feet each of mulch under the rear hatch and headed home.
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Good morning, all!
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Correct. Best of the best (L88, LT1 w/air, extremely low miles, etc.) chrome bumper sharks are pricy. Original, nicely-equipped, well-kept big block early sharks are just not that expensive.
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... his presence is still strong in Philadelphia.
I took a different route home tonight; the Market-Frankfort El(evated), which goes right past/over the original WFIL American Bandstand studio. It's a business incubator now, completely repurposed, but they don't deny the history: the last time I was there they still had one of the original Rate-A-Record props.
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Thanks, all!
I already have JB Weld from a previous Bill H advised project, so I'll probably try that. Gotta get some appropriate clamps and some sandpaper.
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My air intake housing is cracked around the connector (see pictures below). The supposed correct replacement (I have one) isn't even close.
How would the gurus fix this? The ideal fix would be undetectable from the outside and not affect functionality.
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Good morning, all.
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I had somewhat of the same issue a couple of years ago. This thread might be instructive:
http://www.corvetteguruforum.com/modu ... wtopic.php?topic_id=13038
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Bill, that last picture is awesome!
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Tire Rack is selling them for $155 each - not amazingly cheap, but certainly not C5 or C6 tire money either.
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That's "still feels like a truck." In case any of you were wondering if I can still write in English.
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Not a lot of miles yet. A little louder than the Goodyear HP Ultras (which makes sense) but very well controlled. Tons of grip. No change in ride characteristics - still feels like truck.
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I really like the second shot.
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I headed over to Rosemont Tire today to get my new BFGoodrich g-Force Sport COMP-2 255/50ZR-16 tires mounted and balanced.
These are the first name brand street tires available in this size since the previous generation of this tire disappeared from stock some time in 2010. I enclose two pictures for those who might be interested: 1) A side view so you can see how Lauren sits with them. 2) A view of the tread pattern.
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Thanks, Bill. Sometimes the answers are too obvious ...
... I have the manual, but it is significantly different from this one.
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Don't know what to think at this point ...
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Four post storage lift. I remember that I'm supposed to apply some lithium grease to it - exactly where should I put it?
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Good morning, all!
Doing the great "show to driver" tire and wheel swap for the 1985 - I'll report back later.
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Nice color on the C5!
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Looks good!
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