63 Corvette Coupe 13K Original Miles - Page 3

**SupremeDeluxe** · #1 10-15-2023, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by olredalert

----So glad you saved the original seats. They are irreplaceable!....Bill S

I'm going to steal the hockey sticks for the new seats, because they are perfect. The offshore repro ones won't cut it.

I had some wicked vacuum leaks at the manifold, and now have it off for the second time. Should be driving in a few days.

**TimG** · #2 10-15-2023, 06:46 PM

The white coupe looks great. It reminds me of the white '67 coupe I picked up earlier this year. The coupes are great drivers, you will enjoy it.

**SupremeDeluxe** · #3 10-17-2023, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by TimG

The white coupe looks great. It reminds me of the white '67 coupe I picked up earlier this year. The coupes are great drivers, you will enjoy it.

I agree on being a good driver. I have never had a 300 car before. I think this will be a great driver with the 3.36 (posi) gear. All the 63's I've had are 340s and one fuelie, all of which have/had deep gears and are of limited utility. Especially the FI car and the 110 octane Sunoco needed to make it run its best. I envision driving this a lot more. If I hang on awhile, maybe I will paint it (has one lacquer repaint done in the 60s or 70s and is showing its age). I'd like to keep the character of the original fiberglass and not have it straightened out to look like a show car. Need to find the right person for that job, if I go there. I'm in it for a fair enough price that I could justify paint.

**napa68** · #4 10-17-2023, 01:55 PM

I feel the 300hp 327 is the best running engine of the group. Nice idle, great torque, no drama. It pulls a 3.36 gear easily. Just a great road combination!

**olredalert** · #5 10-17-2023, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by SupremeDeluxe

I agree on being a good driver. I have never had a 300 car before. I think this will be a great driver with the 3.36 (posi) gear. All the 63's I've had are 340s and one fuelie, all of which have/had deep gears and are of limited utility. Especially the FI car and the 110 octane Sunoco needed to make it run its best. I envision driving this a lot more. If I hang on awhile, maybe I will paint it (has one lacquer repaint done in the 60s or 70s and is showing its age). I'd like to keep the character of the original fiberglass and not have it straightened out to look like a show car. Need to find the right person for that job, if I go there. I'm in it for a fair enough price that I could justify paint.

----The right painter/body guy will be able to track down some lacquer for you to make it as authentic as possible!....Bill S

**SupremeDeluxe** · #6 10-25-2023, 01:34 PM

Ran into some difficulties, as I always do. Carb and distributor were in great shape, rebuilt both because that's how I do things.

I started with a vacuum leak at the manifold, and after re-installing it twice, I still have a vacuum leak. Found I am sucking oil at the bottom of the intake runners all around. Appears someone surfaced the intake manifold, so it's a doorstop now. Just located a (hopefully better) date correct manifold and waiting on that to arrive. It doesn't appear the heads have been machined, but then again who knows...

Have gone over it and every number and date code is correct and/or original. All the original fasteners are still there, which is great to have. I had to replace the surge tank because it had the typical 63-64 tube issues and wouldn't hold pressure. But saved the original, of course.

More to come in a couple weeks once I strip and magnaflux the new manifold. Note it still has the original light gray/tan 63 tach cable. Radiator is original as well, so that will probably fail once I start driving it.

**napa68** · #7 10-25-2023, 02:40 PM

My Dad has a saying......

"Old cars, old buildings, and old women all require some work from time to time"

Looking great Nick!

**Jonesy** · #8 10-25-2023, 03:18 PM

Radiators, waterpumps and heater cores have always seemed to haunt me on low mileage cars that I have owned. I think almost every car I have now has had all three of those components done. Just the way it seems to go.

My eyes are on that Jeep you have

Looks really nice!

**SupremeDeluxe** · #9 10-26-2023, 11:28 AM

I don't mind talking about Jeeps, at all.

Since there are some Jeep fans, here are some more pics of the wife's CJ-7. It's a fairly loaded Jeep and a lifelong California desert Jeep--has the extended carpet package (in garnet), 5-speed, tilt, cruise, the chrome wheels, and dealer-added air that is polar cold. Original owner had it until 2019, then it got passed around among a few collectors and sold through Barrett Jackson a couple years ago. It is as close to a zero-rust original CJ-7 as there is--I was in the doors recently cleaning up the window regulators, and it looks like it was manufactured last week. Same for under the carpeting. The reason I ended up with this is because her father had one in the exact same color and trim when she was a kid. Plowing snow commercially with Jeeps was apparently a thing in Wisconsin back then, and he had a fleet of CJ's for some specific snow removal use--the Renegade was her father's personal plow Jeep.

I was hoping/expecting it would be just another wife request fulfilled at great expense, and she'd be over it, but she wants to keep it. I tried to sell it twice so I can have more room (I have 6 cars and can have only 2-3 at home), and was thwarted both times.

Besides being into 63 Corvettes, I am into air cooled 356s and 911s, and old trucks. The K10 is more my style.

**cheveslakr** · #10 10-26-2023, 01:53 PM

Where's that hats off emoje? Love them all and you've got 3, at least, rides that take you on totally different places and they're all stunning.
Little bias here, I've got a '66 L72 vette, a '73 454 square body and a '70 CJ5, and they're all keepers for me.

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