Looking for a 1974 to 1977 Corvette

[Wicked98Snake]

Do foxes still come with a fat girl in the trunk?

Well now i feel ripped off! I want my fat chick dammit!

[Slowhand]

Not sure what your point is. A C5 is a good handling car even stock. I have full MM suspension on my stang and have roadraced it, I had a Z06, and my Vette doesn't have drag suspension on it so I am well aware that there is more to cars than drag racing and straight line performance. The Fox thing was a joke because everyone always says to get a Fox and put x dollars in it to make it do whatever and then they rag on C5s because of the interior or because they are 'plastic'.

Not saying that they don't handle well, but the only consideration anyone on this site gives to the purchase of a car is "You can toss X dollars into a C5 and make XXX power and run XX.XX ET."

[Vertnut]

Do foxes still come with a fat girl in the trunk?

I wouldn't know...I have a sn95.

[bcoop]

I wouldn't know...I have a sn95.

Those come with fat girls too!

[BP]

I like that body style as well. Really any Corvette other than the 81-82 ones with the stupid 305 and th-400 is a decent car. Sure the suspension leaves a lot to be desired but outside of Ferrari or Porsche offerings it was the best you could get in that time frame. You can only do so much with 6" wide tires.

I absolutely hate the rear lower control arm shims for alignment and the pressed in axle bearings on all of those cars but other than that they are relatively easy to work on and pretty reliable. Well that and make sure you open the doors if you ever put it up on a lift, it can break the doors or latches if you don't. Not as cool as ripping a hole in the floor board or cracking a 1/4 panel on the new ones if you lift it wrong but still pretty exciting.

[Vertnut]

I like that body style as well. Really any Corvette other than the 81-82 ones with the stupid 305 and th-400 is a decent car. Sure the suspension leaves a lot to be desired but outside of Ferrari or Porsche offerings it was the best you could get in that time frame. You can only do so much with 6" wide tires.

I absolutely hate the rear lower control arm shims for alignment and the pressed in axle bearings on all of those cars but other than that they are relatively easy to work on and pretty reliable. Well that and make sure you open the doors if you ever put it up on a lift, it can break the doors or latches if you don't. Not as cool as ripping a hole in the floor board or cracking a 1/4 panel on the new ones if you lift it wrong but still pretty exciting.

The six U-joint's kinda suck. Years ago, they were only available through Chevy dealers (mid-'70's), and they would really stick it to you.

[Vertnut]

Those come with fat girls too!

I wondered what all that noise was in the trunk!

[BP]

The six U-joint's kinda suck. Years ago, they were only available through Chevy dealers (mid-'70's), and they would really stick it to you.

Never had to do those luckily. I'd imagine FW Gear and Axle could figure something out with them though.

I had plenty of experience with those cars and even had one regular customer with a Zimmer. Basically a stretched 81 Vette with a wannabe Rolls Royce front end. All the poor performance an anemic 305 could offer, coupled with a 4,000 pound car. Anything you had to do on a Vette was 3x as difficult on the Zimmers. Thank goodness they switched to Fords!

[46Tbird]

The only 305-powered Corvettes ever made were the cars built in 1980 for California, and that was for CARB emissions compliance. Every other Corvette from 1975-1996 used the old 4.00x3.48 350ci SBC.

[Pro88LX]

Another person on here pushing plastic fantastic C5s? Yawn.

Don't you have a 2v GT? LOL

[VETTKLR]

Here's some in that era from the Amarillo area....

http://amarillo.craigslist.org/cto/2218242890.html

http://amarillo.craigslist.org/cto/2209126625.html

http://amarillo.craigslist.org/cto/2201200285.html

http://amarillo.craigslist.org/cto/2176363344.html

http://amarillo.craigslist.org/cto/2162552350.html

Holy Shit!... http://amarillo.craigslist.org/cto/2170663095.html

[Slowhand]

Don't you have a 2v GT? LOL

Do you see me pushing them as an awesome buy?

[Damnittsteve]

uh

http://dfwmustangs.net/class/showproduct.php?product=1195&title=1975-corvette&cat=5

[Pro88LX]

Do you see me pushing them as an awesome buy?

Do you think you're in any position to critique others car preferences? If you don't think C5's are a great all around performance car buy for the money, you're dumber then i thought.

[Slowhand]

Do you think you're in any position to critique others car preferences? If you don't think C5's are a great all around performance car buy for the money, you're dumber then i thought.

Lol, like any motherfucker on here possesses the required "credentials" to critique jack fucking shit. The furthest any car or build on here has strayed from the C5-mean recently is a GTO (lol) with an LS motor (lol) and a turbo. And that's not to hate on that build at all, because it's cool, but it's not too far removed from everything on here.

And sure, they're a great all around buy for the money, especially if you like a mildly stylized bar of soap with an interior designed and put together by someone from, well, Kentucky.

I also think that anyone that's ever spent more than a few minutes on this website is fully aware that the overwhelming board recommendation is a C5 Vette. Do we really need another thread of that? A little outside the box thinking would go a long way here, but I won't hold my breath.