Vette Magazine – November 2019

Chip and Bill created Carlisle Events in order to effectively manage this growth. Their next major decision was to create a perm ...

Tom DeBold’s fuel-injected 1960 roadster received a Stock Blue Ribbon after it was entered in the Concours Stock category. The ’ ...

legacy as the 21st century rolls forward. What started as a pair of automotive flea markets in the mid to late ’70s has spawned ...

“We have been Zip customers since we began our Corvette experience over 6 years ago. Zip has performed more than a few upgrades ...

S tyle is fickle. Today’s cool cars can quickly turn ice cold. Look at custom cars of the 1950s and 1960s. Remember the Pro Stre ...

The Corvette had a wild green metal- flake paintjob with a one-of-a-kind cus- tom ribbon treatment, deep-dish Cragar mags shod w ...

then $1,000 and the Monte Carlo. This was becoming comical. Livering was just in the 11th grade and had spent all he could on th ...

Show. A few months later the man sent Livering an old Instamatic photo of the car from the show ... angel hair and all. A typica ...

orvettes were designed for optimal performance, and certain components changed over time in order to offer additional strength o ...

01 After we shed a little light on the situation, we found a giant crack in the original differential carrier mounting bracket. ...

06 We disconnected the driveshaft and strut rods, and then dropped the leaf spring, using a jack to slowly lower it. Then, we pl ...

Source Corvette Central (800) 345-4122 http://www.corvettecentral.com 11 Using the floor jack, we apply pressure to the rearend ...

13 Releasing pressure from the floor jack allows the rear- end to rotate back to its resting place against the differ- ential mo ...

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S ince the early days of the 20th century, specialty coachbuilders were mak- ing custom cars for the rich and famous. Back then, ...

To jump-start interest in the sputtering Corvette, in 1956, the body got a complete makeover, although the interior was mostly u ...

standard cars had small button-size, or dog dish, hubcaps while deluxe models had stylized full-size wheel covers. Harley Earl’s ...

The Rally Wheel design was used from 1968-’82. In 1968, the rim width was increased from 6 inches to 7 inches, and in 1969 incre ...

Alloy wheels were now standard all Corvettes. The ’84 wheels measured 16x8.5 front and 16x9 rear. From 1985-’87, the front and r ...

® 5 and 6 Speed Manual Overdrive transmissions or SST Automatic 4 Speed OD transmissions are the best upgrade you can make to yo ...