Hey guys , back again with a 1962 Vette with only 22k on this car ....We are fixing the body and respraying the car factory white.
Gotta be among the lowest-mile '62s out there. Any history on this car, like where it was hidden all this time? Nice! DD
cool!! my pops has a unrestored survivor 59. 83,000 original miles and the only time the heads have been off the motor was to get the valve guides upgraded so he didn't have to keep running the lead additive a couple years ago. he's had it for 46 or 47 years now. he paid $800 for it back when he bought it.
has it been painted before?i see some thick wavy paint on the hood.lots of block sanding in your future.nice car.
If that was a original factory paint job in that condition. repainting it cost about 20K+ in lost value as a collector car. Original is worth more that restored to a collector.
Nice car..perfect candidate for a HotRod. I find it interesting now, people search high and low for these cars, spending serious cash to "restore" them, when "back in the day" they bought them, modified them, customized them, and raced them, (very few were left stock..kind of defeated the purpose of buying a factory performance car). Oh well, to each their own.
I was thinking the same thing. Someone is spending a bunch of money to deface that car. No offence intended to the painter.
Yes it is a Local 1 owner car ....He has owned it since brand new and wanted to clean it up... The car has alot of stress cracks and the original paint needs to be redone.
I understand how people are all chiming in saying he's ruining the car. However, remember this guy bought the car brand new and has owned it for close to 50 years. I think he retains the right to fix it up to how he remembered it new. If your kid lived to be 50 and needed some minor "surgery" to get back on the sports field, would you frown?? I doubt it. I bet this car is like another child to him.
Cool car and nice job so far. I'm guessing the paint just looks better in pictures than in person. When I worked at a body shop while I was going to college, we did a 2nd owner 62. It had been repaired so many times over the years it was crazy. The spots repainted didn't match the original paint due to the old paint fading and things of that nature. Also, that car had a lot of cracking too. It must just be the nature of those older vettes. Keep posting pics and keep up the good work!
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