Tim Suddard
Tim Suddard Publisher Emeritus
2/26/24 3:25 p.m.
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In addition to figuring out what we bought, we needed to figure out what we were going to do with it.

Now that this one-owner 1965 Corvette sat in our shop, what’s the plan?

In all honesty, we bought the car sight unseen because we trusted the sellers, always have loved the looks of the…

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Noddaz
Noddaz PowerDork
2/27/24 9:49 a.m.

The only answer is DRIVE IT!!!

 

Colin Wood
Colin Wood Associate Editor
2/27/24 9:56 a.m.

In reply to Tim Suddard :

100% agree. We'll be driving this one quite a bit.

wspohn
wspohn UltraDork
2/27/24 2:49 p.m.

They are great looking cars but sadly poor driving cars once you get over the initial adrenalin caused by spinning smoking tires. The handling was always a tad primitive - two of my friends road raced them and one rolled his.....

Driven sensibly on the road they are fine, of course, if a bit uncivilized.

I hade one friend that was proud of owning a very rare C3 - it had a big block motor and was an 'option delete' car in that the original buyer had specified drum brakes - they presumably distrusted them new fangled disc things. He was actually proud that his suicidal option choices were rare.....

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