Yeah! Mark it on the Calendar!

Wednesday 17 December was the day!

After many hours in the garage, Bob emerged to drive the car, under its own steam, to the weigh bridge at Wyong.

Then back home to swap cars and head off to the Motor Registry........ and (drum roll please).....



Stay tuned for the fine or should I say, not so fine details of what has happened since last Friday ..........

It's back

Well, on Friday 12 December the 'vette returned from the Long Jetty Muffler Shop ready for the fine tuning before registration......nothing runs smooth and I'll leave it for Bob to fill in the details.

He's worked long and hard and finally the end is in sight!

Rumblings from the Garage

Haven't seen Bob since the corvette came back from the Muffler shop.....I think he is due to emerge about 8:30am tomorrow morning when Baz arrives to take the car up the road for the blue slip.....

That was no earthquake...

Did you hear it???? The sound of the unexhausted.....is that a word....Corvette being driven onto the tow truck was pretty loud...and Bob was in his element!

Finally the red Sting is in the hands of the exhaust shop and that only means one thing! It's getting close to registration.

It has been a huge experience but I must say, and I am biased....Bob has done an amazing job. This 'vette looks fantastic!

The '75 only had to go about 100 yards to Long Jetty Mufflers, since Al, who was booked to do the deed was unexpectedly sent bush with his day job. But Baz from Magic Towing was still enlisted as Bob was convinced he couldn't get away with driving the noisy beast even 100 yards!

The one good thing is however, that now Bob can just pop over and check on the guy that is doing the job......poor bugger!

The Ducks Were Quacking!!!!

Sorry, that really should have read, The Ducts Were Cracking.

This Corvette was originally made with the option of Air Conditioning.
The air, for both heating & cooling is routed around the dashboard via molded plastic ducts….. they look to have been molded in two halves and then joined by some means (probably ultrasonic welding or similar).

Well, the ducts on this old girl were cracked along the joins in quite a few places, particularly where one duct joins up to another. ….spent some time with adhesive and cable ties to repair the joins.

Adding to the problems, some of the ducts were broken in places. It looks like some heavy handed “mechanic” had applied too much force in the wrong place at some time in the car’s life.
Our American friends would probably say that “Bubba done it”
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To fix the broken ducts, I bought some light gauge aluminum sheeting and fabricated new ends/sides etc. The photos show some of what was needed to be done.