Registration and inspection

[Mad4slalom]

Hi all, looking through the file of paperwork on my 72 there was the last registration and inspection cards that went on the LH corner of the screen.
Dated 1989, it was then stood for 21 years til the PO purchased it and undertook the body off restoration. So the vette lasted 17 years before it was abandoned. Not that bad really the way they say they were thrown together. Saying that, it had been painted and had another motor fitted within that time frame. any others here with an idea of what their vette ‘s story was?

 

[johng]

Interesting that yours stood for 21 years, mine appears to have stood for 19 years. Most parts on my car were original except that it obviously had a front end crash at some point, because the whole front clip had been replaced. I've been able to trace a fair bit of the car's history from the paperwork I got with it.

 

[CaptainK]

The history of my C3:

• Someone in America sold it to me.
• I registered it in UK.
• I now maintain it and do stuff to it.

That's about it. By looking around at it, I have the suspicions that its had a few issues in the past, and someone's done some upgrades or some such, but can't be sure.

 

[Chuffer]

My C3 history is about as detailed as yours Captain .
According to Vintage Vehicle Services Inc . of Oshawa , Ontario it was produced at the St. Louis Plant on or around December 19th 1979 .
It was red .
Sold to someone in USA
Sometime between 1980 and 1989 it was owned by someone living around Pacific Pallisades , California . ( I found a Beach Club Members Pass lost down dash top ) .
1989 - Went to Japan.
Acquired a 1985 Camaro IROC - Z 305 cu. in . engine at some point.
Put on a posh outfit with skirts .
Got a make - up job in Ford Violet Metallic paint job .
Got bored with Japan and left in 2016.
Came to UK in August 2016 when I bought it .
Now I maintain it and have a thick service / maintenance / invoice file . I dare not tot up all the invoices !

 

[CaptainK]

That's a lot more detailed than mine. I have no idea what mine did prior to me buying it. Part of me likes to think it used to have a big block fitted for a while, as it has the gearstick console details of a 1972 big block on it. But then it could have just had a cracked centre console and someone got a replacement from a junkyard that just happened to be a big block. The original engine is in it now though - at least that's what I'm told.

Oh actually, I do know something about my car's past - at some point in America someone put side pipes on (its a 1968, so not factory option), and also painted it the same blue colour as used on a Dodge Viper. My car was originally blue, just not the blue it has now. Looking at the paintwork, the respray to the new blue was done a reasonable amount of time ago.

 

[Mad4slalom]

Interesting that yours stood for 21 years, mine appears to have stood for 19 years. Most parts on my car were original except that it obviously had a front end crash at some point, because the whole front clip had been replaced. I've been able to trace a fair bit of the car's history from the paperwork I got with it.

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Nice bit of info to go with the car , btw, I went to school with a John Goode in the seventies

 

[johng]

Funnily enough, I did a click and collect shopping the other week and the guy there said he had gone to school with a John Goode. It wasn't the same school as me, so not the same person. I was at The Brentwood School in the 70s, were you?

 

[Mad4slalom]

Funnily enough, I did a click and collect shopping the other week and the guy there said he had gone to school with a John Goode. It wasn't the same school as me, so not the same person. I was at The Brentwood School in the 70s, were you?

No , never left sunny cornwall

 

[Oneball]

No , never left sunny cornwall

I’m intrigued by the piano?

 

[Mad4slalom]

I’m intrigued by the piano?

I have been a specialist piano mover for over 25 years, the yellow bit of equipment is a clever piano tilter that replaces the pedal lyre and enables a full size concert grand to be tilted safely off its legs and picked back up again whilst setting up and dismantling. Check out , www.garywattsremovals.com.
Some interesting pics of a few of our moves. Too old for house moves now so just do my piano work , some antique trade work for bonhams, and a fair amount of vintage motorcycles also for them. I took these five up on tuesday to bicester heritage. Always something interesting to see up there.

 

[phild]

Love the bikes but would never have believed you could get that piano up those stairs. Amazing.

 

[Mad4slalom]

Love the bikes but would never have believed you could get that piano up those stairs. Amazing.

I never would have attempted those spindly stairs , too dangerous, luckily there was a 12’ high sash window on the “turn” and a flat roof outside. The scaffolders were working on the building next door so they built a 30’ ramp onto the roof , we then just had to winch in up the ramp , over the roof and up the straight second flight of stairs. Totally dooable and safely then. There was a baby grand downstairs that the last movers could not get up so we did that one as a dummy run before doing the 7’4” Bluthner. Interesting day.