New guy in tennessee

[Boatmark]

Greetings PT World

Mark here. I have been lurking around the site for a while, and it may just be the motivation necessary to get me off, and keep me off my but long enough to finally build my car after a 21 year hibernation.

1978 Corvette. It has 82' style front and rear glass bumpers molded on (no wavy plastic OEM, and it torques off the correct hose clamp and chalk mark Corvette guru's .. Fun!). Mild 350/350 and stock everything else. It was a show quality (for 1985!) car that I used up and put away while I moved. Somehow life got in the way, and the last tag expired August 1989. The time has come to build it as a mild pro-touring fun car.

Since I work in the boating industry, naming the project Dry Dock
seems appropriate. But I am open to other ideas. The plan is cleaned up stock appearing body, semi stock appearing interior. PT suspension, and I am beginning to lean towards a used injected 5.3 truck motor with some work to wake it up.

This has to be a budget build, and home built. It is planned as a purely street car, but after reading here, mild autocrossing sounds like fun. I'm an ex-boatracer, so something a little competitive is good, but I also remember that staying competitive at anything is usually tough on the credit cards!

Has anyone with a Corvette had any experience with the Vette Brakes and Products transverse leaf front end? I like the engineering, but ground clearance concerns me on a street car. I tend towards a lot of distance travel for work, will inevitably use the Vette some when it is done, and tend not to baby stuff. If I wanted something to sit in the garage and gaze at, I'd buy a painting . . . it takes up less space. To each his own I guess, but I tend to use mine up and build it again.

Anyway, its good to be here and thanks for having me. There are some incredible cars here. After reading the $5000 mustang fastback thread, it makes my project seem like lego's

Mark

[69Camaro/70 Velle]

Welcome to the forum. We need pics of you're project. You're right auto cross does look like a blast. I was watchin' them at the Good Guys show in Des Moines.

[Boatmark]

Working on pictures. . . just moved again and the garage is a mess. I think the Corvette is under the pile on the left!

[Ralph LoGrasso]

Welcome to the site, Mark.

[1971CHEVELLE]

Welcome to the site