In the beginning of 1998

I started looking for the car that I've always wanted. A Mid-Year corvette could be mine, if I could find one for the right price. I started looking throughout the web and through all the 'For-Sale' magazines that  I could find. There were a lot of corvette's for sale, but it was hard to find one with a low entry-cost. The other requirement that I was looking for, was a car that I wouldn't feel guilty cutting up. Since I wanted to build a Pro-Street car, not much of the original car would be left. I basically wanted a body, and a title so that I could register the car when I was done.

I finally found a car through the Internet. It had been stored for twenty years, and was traded into a used-car lot. It had been customized in the sixties and was the color of an illicit drug, and it had little leaves painted on the convertible hardtop. I guess you would have to be doing some sort of drugs to paint it that color green over the beautiful silver-blue that was the original color. The front fenders and rear quarters were flared, which were not that bad. It was the datsun 280-z looking front clip that really made me feel good about cutting it off. If it were just flared, I might have done a restification. I even contemplated a restification for a couple of weeks. I could just replace the front clip, and have drivable car in a year or two. Then after much thought and hours looking at the car, and research into the car (it's an early sixty-three, built in November of 1962, I bought it in November of 1998), I decided to go ahead and build the car I wanted to build.

Read on and see what happened from there...................