Day 1:
So, after a few trips to Switzerland, I got sick of looking at my boss's 1956 Corvette, sitting on a lift in the garage, not having been touched since it was crashed in a race over two years ago!
Background: My boss's first race car. Hit got hit at about 85mph. The frame is bent, body cracked up real bad (It's all fiber glass).... Well, put it this way. The motor shifted over about three inches.... Got to love racing. He walked away.
To continue, on my last trip I found out he had another frame sitting in his other garage! I pulled it out of the rafters, stripped off the remaining parts, and sent it out for powder coating. Now the project begins.
It took longer to clean off the three inches of dust that had accumulated than to get the car prepped for "separation". I figured out a way to suspend the body from the ceiling (I know, kinda backyard), then lower the frame, engine, trans, and pretty much everything else on the lift. Very surprised to find I didn't miss a thing! Not even a few wires or something (all gear heads know there's usually a few wires that you forget and you test the tensile strength on). Two big chain pulleys and a few straps, and the puppy was off! Simple car though. Not much to it. Come on, she's 52 years old!
Anywho, with the body gone, the frame damage was more apparent. You can visually see the motor sitting sideways. The front suspension is toast on the R/S, where the impact was the greatest. I don't think any of the steering components survived, even on the L/S.
Enough for one day (well, not really a full day when you get up at 1pm. Hey! A little slack! On still on east coast time! Six hours difference ya know! Tomorrow will be the motor/trans removal.
