So I have no imagination. Fine. So I’m easily amused by things that I see on the interwebs. Fine. I have a 1990 Corvette that’s hit in the front and a 1993 Anniversary Edition chassis sitting here. What’s a guy to do with them? Copy what has seemed to work for others and build another toy.
So here’s the back story. Along time ago I purchased the 1990 from a friend of a friend who had recently crashed it. Even though it was his “dream car” and well built with LOTS of aftermarket parts, it still had little appeal to me. I’m not a C4 Corvette guy, so I figured I would either part the car out or sell it as-is and try to make a few dollars. In talking with a friend who has a shop where he builds Cobra, Daytona Couple, Grand Sport and GT-40 recreations, he expressed an interest in the cars. When we sat down to do some haggling over what I would get in return, I had an idea. He had a Corvette Grand Sport kit car/replica chassis/body that I wanted and he was going to you trade me the both Corvettes + a “to be determined amount of cash for the GS built as a bare rolling chassis. So, I trailer everything out to his shop and knowing the way he works, figured I wouldn’t see anything for several months at best. Well, life got in the way(new house, family illness, new shop) and several months turned into several years. Things happened and I ended up going to his shop and retrieving everything after we found the project was never going to go anywhere . Upon getting everything back to my shop, I saw how much a good car can deteriorate over time just sitting closed up outside. It was sad! Now I had some decisions to make, what to do with an old C-4 Corvette and a bare chassis? Again, I could part it out but honestly, C-4’s don’t bring any $$$. Build one of the numerous kit cars on the market using the donor parts? I already have a few kit car projects, so that’s not on the radar. My next thought is that with the current trend, there are numerous people that have built Corvette karts and seem to be having a lot of inexpensive fun, so why not explore that route? I did some pondering and calculating and figured for a couple of grand I could easily complete one, so here it goes........... It certainly will not be a quick build as life always seems to get in the way, but all I will update it as often as I can. It won’t be fancy with turbos or superchargers, just a normally aspirated toy using as much of the donor car as possible. In true “lo-cost” fashion, I will be parting out as many of the unused parts from the donor to recoup some of the initial investment.
First, clear enough space to get 3 cars in the shop and some additional space to put all of the parts that get removed from both cars.
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_________________ Dan Lipperini Jr www.RaceLabz.com
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