Yellow 1968 L88 Corvette - - Anyone know this car?

[Turbo_Jet]

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/zerothread?id=708730

I found this thread on the Corvette Forum. Appears to be owned by the original owner! Check out the vintage pic from 1970, the car looks great. Dan /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Pantera]

That is a nice looking car even if it does have later 8" wheels on it.

I would love to hang around that forum but even with a DSL line it is
soooooooooooooooo................ slow to load that I have fallen asleep
waiting for it to change screens. It took me 30 min to sign in and read the
listing and I tried to post to it about the wheels and it just locked up.

ctrl+alt+del said it was not responding...! I have no problems with any other
forum but this one. It has too much graphics loading to ever finish for me.


Does anybody know a trick to get it to load faster? Cable is out for me. I am
on a 1500kb DSL line. but am at the end and don't get much faster than
750kb. speed.

[Turbo_Jet]

I feel your pain. The Corvette Forum makes my dial up connection beg for mercy every time I go there. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

[Stitch]

That's odd , I'm on 560k DSL on the other side of the Atlantic and it loads fine for me /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[TimG]

Does anyone know the price of the car? Sounds like the original engine is with the car, just not in the car. Looks interesting, any L88 is valuable.

[Turbo_Jet]

That thread kind of makes it sound like the car is absolutely not for sale, and that if it does somehow turn up for sale there's a line of people wating for it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif Dan

[TimG]

I was not sure by looking at the post.

[Charles]

Tim the 1969 Corvette is a better choice. 1968 Corvette models suffered all the usual problems of a new model, when introduced by GM. Zora was in the hospital when the final development was done on the new 1968 Corvette. He had serious concerns about the 427 models overheating. This issue was not addressed in his absence. At the last minute in 1967 before the Press Preview he ordered some changes and as a result, reduced the overheating problem. The new styling was interesting but it proved to be a nightmare for the engineers.
Terry had a restored 1968 Corvette L88 that sat for ages before he was finally able to move it.
As you know Chevrolet had two versions of the L88 in 1969. They got the improved "open chamber" aluminum heads part way through the year; saving the best for last. The early 1968 models are especially bad. C&D refused to test the one they were given; it was falling apart.

[TimG]

I can forgive the 1968 flaws on an L88. I've owned early and late '68 435 horse cars and they had evolved over the year.