Derek Nicol
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If they had been like that one from new they would have sold approximately zero manuals.. it was terrible.
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Derek Nicol
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No doubt in my mind, that gearbox was in need of a rebuild.
Changing the subject... i have a technical question... someone i know has a 1981 C3 (just like mine) but has a number plate on it that includes the number 454... am i going.. sorry, i mean, is he going to hell?
Changing the subject... i have a technical question... someone i know has a 1981 C3 (just like mine) but has a number plate on it that includes the number 454... am i going.. sorry, i mean, is he going to hell?
CaptainK
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That depends on whether he has also fitted a 454 engine into it as well
As an aside, "Corvette fans not quite in the know" get excited when they see my car as it has the number 434 in the reg plate and think its a big block.
Derek Nicol
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Nope.. standard 350.That depends on whether he has also fitted a 454 engine into it as well
He tells me he transferred the plate from his big block Chevelle but i know for a fact that
Derek Nicol
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Yes, im telling Porkies... my imaginary friend doesnt really exist.
Its me thats going to hell
Its me thats going to hell
Derek Nicol
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Im trying my hardest!.. a Tesla.. a 454 reg plate on a 350... what more do i have to do?I think you need therapy matey having imaginary friends !Its not a big white rabbit is it ?
Going to hell is the last of your worries , you might get Black Balled from the club !!!
Derek Nicol
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Ive got a Bridgeported IDA carbed Mazda RX7 Vankel (ve have vays of making etc...) Rotary engine sat in the corner of my garage if that helps any?I am sure the Chairman will pronounce sentence shortly .
Edit: Too Late!.. My Membership Card just arrived... No!.. you cant have it back.
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Chuffer
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Ahh ! A Vankel ? Very interesting Mr. Bond , ve have vays of making you talk .Ive got a Bridgeported IDA carbed Mazda RX7 Vankel (ve have vays of making etc...) Rotary engine sat in the corner of my garage if that helps any?
Edit: Too Late!.. My Membership Card just arrived... No!.. you cant have it back.
Derek Nicol
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Felix W@nkel was a very naughty boy, he was an SS Obersturmbannführer so V(V)ankel is correct (much like Ferdinand Porsche who was an SS Oberführer).Ahh ! A Vankel ? Very interesting Mr. Bond , ve have vays of making you talk .
The English pronunciation is of course far more amusing.
Derek Nicol
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Found this picture on the interweb. I spent two years of my life in the early eighties at college (i would have been there when my Vette was built) learning the old fashioned labour intensive time consuming art of Engineering Illustration which is basically three dimensional technical drawing. Unfortunately i completely failed to see what was coming down the road at me, during those two years new computer software (something that i had zero interest in) completely decimated the profession. I wound up having to take a job as a Graphic Designer in a national company Marketing Dept instead. I have had a love/hate relationship with technology ever since.
Fat Jogger
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Took mine out for it's first trip for a while last week (it's been in the garage for a couple of years having some love). Went to see a client, and when I parked on his drive his Tesla was facing me.Im trying my hardest!.. a Tesla.. a 454 reg plate on a 350... what more do i have to do?
I think of it as "The Old Guard faced up to the Young Pretender, and tried to stare it down..."
Regards,
FJ
Derek Nicol
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Thats quite an old one, probably 2015, you still dont want to get in a race with it though.
Enjoy your Vette, i bet that was great getting out in it after a two year wait.