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To my knowledge the only bad part on mine is the pipe right ahead of the muffler but it would be nice to start fresh. I took it on a highly illegal run down the road this afternoon. It was like greased glass. I floated on air and steered with a pinky. A little ragged sounding with 3 or 4...

So hypothetically if I whipped out the Visa card and wanted to replace the entire exhaust system on my 70 Newport, am I at the mercy of the local parts stores or is there a vendor who I could find online?

Well, the proposed budget dictates it will be something in the 80s (C4), although I'd rather have a C3.

By all means. Everyone tells me it's like driving a bath tub down the road and they are generally a POS. I'd just like to experience it first hand.

It's ONLY because of the Corvette lust. I'm probably making a big mistake.

Quick scenario: Hard brake pedal, when I hold on the pedal I can hear vaccuum. ONLY when I'm holding down on the pedal (thus eliminating a vaccuum leak on the line to the booster). The car WILL stop but no apparent power assist. Do I assume the booster is bad and just buy one? Car has been...

I work for the USDA. We have aerial photos of the area served by each field office. It's for farm records, measuring acreage, doing conservation planning. I have some from the 30s, 40s, 70s, 80s, etc. Sometimes people come in off the street asking for old aerials that would help determine when a...

And here's a little detail that will give you an idea of how I can selectively pay attention to detail..... The rectangle oriented north/south in the yellow circle is a 1967 GMC rear engine "pusher" bus #16 that I rode from the fall of 1967 to the spring of 1976 in the Caribou School Department...

Here's a shot of Calvin's in 1992. This was after the yard had been cherry picked for 2 or 3 years! Note in the upper left quadrant the cars are laid out in a somewhat orderly fashion. I was told many of them were just sitting helter skelter in the bushes and some effort was made to 'yard them...

I'm quite sure many of those cars did come from Air Force guys who were leaving Loring and they couldn't sell them to a buddy. Because of the proximity of Calvin's junkyard and the fact he amassed non stop, it makes sense they would end up there. During the 50s and 60s there were about 3x the...

The legend is true. Calvin West's junkyard in Limestone. The junkyard was physically located just east of Loring Air Force Base. My house is less than 15 miles away. He had about 5,000 cars, most of which were accumulated in the 50s and 60s. He was crazy. Insane crazy. And he liked to mess with...

I'm in Caribou, smack dab in the middle of Aroostook County.

As I stated in the Welcome section, last week I rescued a 1970 Newport from having it's 383 pulled and the rest crushed. It has 60,000 original miles, never driven in snow, and has been sitting in a garage since 2000. I put a battery in it and it turned over really slowly. I pulled the plugs...

Short term, just hear it run. Make it so it will move under it's own power. My immediate concern was to snatch it up. He only had one other guy look at it and they clearly stated they wanted the 383 and planned to junk the rest. I wasn't about to let some yahoo destroy it. Long term I would...

Hi all. Brief history, I went to school for auto mechanics in the late 70s, discovered I hated it once I got out in the field, so went on to other things. I stopped doing 90% of the car work; the newer stuff just baffled me. About 5 weeks ago I bought a friend's '57 Bel Air which has been stored...