ss67mike
05-14-2013, 04:31 AM
Hi, this is my first post since joining this forum and was hoping I could find some good information from the members here about a vette I got recently.
I've been working on a 72 LT1 vette I got from my uncle. Its been in my family since 1975 and has just a little over 60k on the speedo.
I've had a few muscle cars, but this is my first vette and I know the LT1's are rare. This one is a pewter silver, all numbers matching car in very good condition with the build sheet. It is also a factory a/c car.
A little history on the car......
The car was bought from a local South Carolina Ford dealership used car lot in 1975 by my uncle. He drove it until 1987. Its been in storage since then until last year when I got it and got it running and driving again. The interior, the body, and exterior is very good, and the car still runs and drives very good, a couple of things are not right to the car. In the three short years before it joined our family, someone managed to lose the LT1 hood and put a homemade L88 style hood on the car, the factory mechanical fuel pump was replaced by an electic pump that was stuck in the front grill of the car with about a half mile of rubber hose and wire(Nuts!!!!) The original side mirror is gone and was replaced by dual bullet-style mirrors(not sure what they came off of). The car had also appears to have been repainted before my uncle got it with the original pewter color. The original radio was replaced with a am/fm cassette and someone put masserati air horns on the car.
The car was ordered from Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was a plant delivery vehicle.
I was just wondering if there was anyway to trace the cars history before 1975. Anyone's success stories about this, or any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Mike
I've been working on a 72 LT1 vette I got from my uncle. Its been in my family since 1975 and has just a little over 60k on the speedo.
I've had a few muscle cars, but this is my first vette and I know the LT1's are rare. This one is a pewter silver, all numbers matching car in very good condition with the build sheet. It is also a factory a/c car.
A little history on the car......
The car was bought from a local South Carolina Ford dealership used car lot in 1975 by my uncle. He drove it until 1987. Its been in storage since then until last year when I got it and got it running and driving again. The interior, the body, and exterior is very good, and the car still runs and drives very good, a couple of things are not right to the car. In the three short years before it joined our family, someone managed to lose the LT1 hood and put a homemade L88 style hood on the car, the factory mechanical fuel pump was replaced by an electic pump that was stuck in the front grill of the car with about a half mile of rubber hose and wire(Nuts!!!!) The original side mirror is gone and was replaced by dual bullet-style mirrors(not sure what they came off of). The car had also appears to have been repainted before my uncle got it with the original pewter color. The original radio was replaced with a am/fm cassette and someone put masserati air horns on the car.
The car was ordered from Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was a plant delivery vehicle.
I was just wondering if there was anyway to trace the cars history before 1975. Anyone's success stories about this, or any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Mike