Tim,
That's really interesting about the year of your Corvette!
Yeah...I guess I have a case of "the thrill is gone".
I don't know how much of it is the car, and how much is just me having become an old fart in the nearly twenty years that the car was off the road. I admit, I just don't have the enthusiasm for anything like I used to.
Pretty much everything on my car stopped working while it sat. No radio, no climate control, etc.
Fortunately, the power windows still work, and it runs and drives.
And, luckily, by having been in a garage all that time, as opposed to outside, it still looks fairly decent.
The worst part of driving it now is the tires. The flat spots make the car feel like you're constantly driving over train tracks. And I can't afford to replace them.
Well, I can't afford to replace them properly. I could buy less expensive tires, but I have OCD.
The car came with GoodYear Eagle GTs originally. Twenty years ago, I bought a set of brand new Eagle GT IIs for it. I think that was the closest I could get at the time.
Well, now they don't make them at all. Another company bought the molds and the rights to reproduce the originals, which would look great on the car. But, they're in the neighborhood of $400 each! I just can't do it.
I don't know if you'll find yourself in a similar situation with your 'Vette if you get it back up and running.
Rick;
I hope you don't mind that we've kind of turned this thread into a discussion of cars in general.
Barry
