I've loved all C-1 and Mid year vettes since the days of watching Rt 66 (I was 12 at the time). I was finally able to afford to purchase a project 62 just a couple years ago and have built it into a nice driver, using a 350 tuned port injection engine and 6 speed manual ZF trans from a wreaked 90 Vette donor car. I also installed a few smaller upgrades that have really made it an enjoyable "drive anywhere" car.



any other early Vette owners on the forum?

Cheers,

 

I've also always loved Corvettes and was lucky to own a 95 for 14 years--one of the best cars I have ever owned. Yours looks exactly like the one a close friend of mine owed back in the early 1990s. I believe it was also a 1962 that looked just like yours but with a 327 and a stick shift. Unfortunately it was constant problems and he was not handy so he eventually sold it to someone up in northern California (to be replaced with an SSR which he also recently got rid of).

It is amazing that whenever I am talking about cars with other old farts, many times the other person will have owned a Corvette at some point in their lives and the reminiscences about the car are always fond nostalgia (including myself).

Doug

 

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But yes, Doug, that's my experience also, that many of us "old farts" do wax nostalgic about the old Vetts. there's just something special about them that very very few cars have ever achieved.

 

I have a '58 that has been undergoing restoration for the last 5 years. (restomod with new suspension, engine....)

 

1960 Corvette I owned since 1972. Majority of "Driver Restoration" completed from 1974-1977. Enjoy driving much like my Jag.

 

Early '70s Corvette owner here.

 

Not a "Mid-Year" Vette guy but I think my forum name says enough. I have had a 2002 C5 Z51 and now have a 2014 C7 Z51 as well as a 2015 F-Type S Coupe. I just love sports cars period.... I will admit that a 1964 Coupe is my dream car as that is my birth year...

 

Roman red split window owner here.

 

Old thread revival? Yes, NCRS Member here with a 1969 Corvette coupe. Also nearing completion on a 72 coupe.

 

I've had an '86 for many years. June of '86, one of the last with cast iron heads and they've never been off the engine. Every car I've had so far with aluminum heads have come off for one reason or another.

 

Beautiful Vette. I owned an 84 with Cross Fire Injection which I was told if they could get it to run properly it was suppose to run better than the Tune Port. Also owned several C5's; a 2000 white convertible, 2001 black Z06, 2001 Red Coupe, 2000 Silver Coupe. Really love the performance out of the C8 but already in AZ way too many on the road. I see them every couple miles no matter where I drive.