1982 - Chevrolet Corvette on 2040-cars
Homestead, Florida, United States
1982 Corvette with 66k original miles. $15,000 OBO. The crossfire system was getting tired and hard to find people to work on so I had the car converted over to an edelbrock performance carburated system. The horsepower used to be 200 and is now over 300 making it a much faster and better running car than the worthless crossfire system. Lots of low end grunt. The car has brand new black paint (3 coats of base and 2 coats of clear). List of improvements Aamco of Fort Walton Beach, FL rebuilt transmission to a solid 700R4 removing the old electronic overdrive and making operate like any other carburated car. It literally has 10 miles on it. Warranteed for another 11 months. I used steel braided trans cooler lines New Al Knoch interior about 2 years old, also Replaced steering wheel, but have original. Tires have about 4000 miles on them. New battery with 3 year warranty. Replaced the fully functional crossfire system and kept ALL wiring harness and other items in place. Still have orig. manifold. These can go with the car. Went with Edelbrock Performer manifold with 600cfm edelbrock carb with electric choke 8mm spark plug wires and platinum bosch plugs. HEI Distributor specifically designed for this swap from Ecklers Corvettes (most parts were from Ecklers. Chrome accent HI FLOW open top air cleaner Chrome valve covers 180 degree thermostat with chrome housing. Steel braided heater hose All new vacuum lines throughout the car. New water pump mallory fuel pressure regulator (to reduce pressure from electric fuel pump in tank) new seals and gaskets and hoses throughout new suspension bushings around New Magnaflow performance exhaust - NO CATS (not super loud, just solid rumble and great revved sound.) New u-joints and had the driveshaft balance checked to make sure. I kept the entire bottom end of the engine stock and unaltered as it was in great shape and has 150+ compression in each cylinder. With only 66k miles it has probably got a long life left, but it had NO power with crossfire....Now it thumps and has solid muscle car torque and sound thru the magnaflow exhaust. Easy tire burning if you want to spin them. Brand new windshield, new weather stripping, new rear view mirror and lots of other new stuff. Issues: The A/C worked when I bought the car, but I took it apart during the rebuild and never hooked it back up. I have all of the parts (only the condensing coil is out of the car). This was just a cruising fair weather car for me and I always had the T-tops off and windows down. It is cheap to get factory A/C working if desired....way more fun to have it open air. I've never messed with the radio...It is stock and I'm not sure if it works or not, I like the engine/exhaust sound when driving these olds cars. I kept a buttload of receipts (over $8k new parts) and almost every old part and bracket that was still usable including the original exhaust and the original crossfire manifold. This was a great project car for me and is now a reliable very good condition 1982 corvette ready for long cruises, car shows or even daily driving.
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Zombie cars: Discontinued vehicles that aren't dead yet
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How a Texas Hyundai dealer became the Chevy SSR king
Tue, Apr 21 2015The SSR isn't one of the most appreciated vehicles in Chevy's long history. With a style amalgamating the look of a vintage hotrod, convertible and a pickup, it's really serving a niche market right from the start. However, a Hyundai dealer in Texas has turned selling the cult models into a booming business and has become the de facto king of the quirky truck. According to Automotive News, Paul Peebles runs North Freeway Hyundai in Spring, TX, but he's better known in the Chevy SSR community the premiere seller of the weird model through his used car network. The odd venture started in 2010 when Peebles wanted to boost his pre-owned business and bought several sporty vehicles. Among them were five SSRs, and he threw a cookout for owners to get the word out. Things just ballooned from there. Since then, Peebles' used car dealer has had a hand in 447 SSR transactions, and some of those are the same truck coming back to sell again. With just over 24,000 of them out there, that works about to two percent of the model's production moving through just one business. The dealership also sponsors an SSR owners' forum online. Being a major broker for a niche model also means that Peebles often gets rare examples of the SSR, including some of the Indianapolis 500 pace car versions, according to Automotive News. We even saw a bizarre one last year when the business put this shark-inspired truck on eBay Motors. The whole thing also works out well for Peebles' Hyundai business. Specializing in SSRs brings other performance models in as trade-ins, and they can draw folks to the lot to check out the collection. Then, maybe visitors can take a look at a Sonata, too.