Possibly the King of Bad Ideas

In reply to mad_machine:

They were the same from 63-64, then 65-66. 1967s were unique.

SVreX wrote: In reply to Woody: Woody, I am so disappointed. You've had MUCH better terrible ideas than this one!

I'd still love to own this car, even though it's painted gold.

just like Woody said. Pretty easy if you grew up around these great C2's

mad_machine wrote:

Wall-e wrote:

mad_machine wrote:

physician wrote: The front end looks 3rd gen to me.... at some point in the 70's, maybesomeone though it would be cool to update an old ugly vette... as said, at a time, they were just old 'vette :)

the fender vents are C3, not C2. That is probably what is giving you the thought it is a C3 in drag

Those are the right fender vents for a C2 if it's a 67.

it gets hard to keep track of what vents went on what car. did GM change the fender vents yearly on vettes?

Twin aftermarket sunroofs, hacked fenders, sits like it has four wheel drive, and painted the color of an orthopedic shoe. What's not to love?

The good thing is that fiberglass is easy to fix.

My favorite is the '64 coupe which, conveniently is the least valuable of the C2 Corvettes.

Bad idea, maybe, but not Corvette Summer custom Vette bad idea, though.

Seems like the perfect excuse for installing a modern large sunroof. Then it's just a stance and wheels/tires combo issue. In my humble opinion of course. What could it cost for a nice Webasto sunroof install in one of these, $2k? $3k?

pres589 wrote: What could it cost for a nice Webasto sunroof install in one of these, $2k? $3k?

That's actually a pretty fantastic solution to this particular problem.

In reply to Woody:

That blue 64 with a blue interior is my favorite color combo. On the gold one I wouldn't fix the fenders just get bigger tires and side pipes.

We had a customer that bought a red 64 roadster that was like a time capsule. Cut out wheel wells, extra tail lights, racing stripes ect. He just had us clean it up and get it running right then he DD'd it into Manhattan every day even in the snow. I was 17 and had very little experience with a manual trans. He threw me the keys on a Friday and said have a good weekend. I did.

I think the fender flares came out pretty good. Not that they are needed with those wheels and tires. Now what it needs is larger tires or lowered or both. I don't really like the sun roofs though. And I would worry about the long term durability of the structural integrity of the coupe because if you notice the doors cut into the roof considerably and what is left from the top of the doors to the edge of the sun roof is marginal. I don't think the sun roofs add to the beauty of the car.

Oh yeh, those fender vents are original '67.

Wall-e wrote: In reply to Woody: That blue 64 with a blue interior is my favorite color combo. On the gold one I wouldn't fix the fenders just get bigger tires and side pipes. We had a customer that bought a red 64 roadster that was like a time capsule. Cut out wheel wells, extra tail lights, racing stripes ect. He just had us clean it up and get it running right then he DD'd it into Manhattan every day even in the snow. I was 17 and had very little experience with a manual trans. He threw me the keys on a Friday and said have a good weekend. I did.

Barf I didn't realize American Bosozoku were a thing.

In reply to Crackers:

if I had feelings they'd be hurt. How does someone confuse a race car with a pile of Japanese debris? rGrand Sports

pres589 wrote: Seems like the perfect excuse for installing a modern large sunroof. Then it's just a stance and wheels/tires combo issue. In my humble opinion of course. What could it cost for a nice Webasto sunroof install in one of these, $2k? $3k?

for that much money, you could fab up a couple of nice 'glass patches and have them blended in perfectly.

In reply to mad_machine:

I like the idea of a nice tilt and slide glass sunroof. I wouldn't cut up an original car to do so, but since someone already did that...

The biggest issue I can think of is getting a nice headliner setup after the sunroof swap is done.

when I had my Lancia Scorpion, I wanted to make a 'glass "double bubble" roof for it like the abarth cars in place of the original fabric webasto style roof. If I had done it, I would have made it removable with using aftermarket sunroof parts to let it pop up in the back and then unhook.

While tacky, they are still not as bad as the 2004+ Skunk Stripe Maxima sunroof that doesn't even open.

Also, this reminds me of a local car that a friend of a friend owned. His dad was a big Vette resto guy, and picked up a '66 coupe that didn't quite make it out of the 1970's unscathed. He kept some of the weirdness, but got it looking decent and his son daily drove the thing for a while. Best case scenario; he saved it from the crusher and the son got a cool daily driver!