$70,000
Stockton, California
Category
Coupe
Mileage
57000
Posted Over 1 Month
Up for sale is our 396 / 425hp 4-speed 1965 Corvette Roadster. We’ve owned this car for 25 years now. It was purchased from Chev’s and Vettes in Arizona with the majority of the cosmetic work and interior completed but needing quite a bit of little “odds and ends” mechanical fixes. The car is driven several times a month and runs and drives great but we’ve put less than 6k miles on it in the last 25 years of ownership. Most trips are 15-25 miles round trip out to lunch, dinner, or local car shows. No problems cruising 50 miles each way at 65-75mph on the freeway to more distant events. It receives regular maintenance (oil & filter changes twice a year and yearly changes of coolant, brake fluid, transmission fluid, and rear diff oil.) The paint is still in very nice shape but does show some slight “shadowing” of the panel bond lines and such and can be seen in certain lights and at certain angles. There are a few typical minor and very short stress cracks in the paint at the corners of the headlights, peaks of the wheelwells, top corners of the doors, etc, all usual on a Corvette that’s been driven. Emblems and bumpers are in very good condition. Wheels are true knock-offs, but reproductions. The convertible top is in great shape and the rear window is clear with no heavy scratches, stresses, or tears. We also have an original GM hardtop to go with the car; it was picked it up a few years ago from a seller in Florida. It’s in good shape but the paint doesn’t quite match the car and the rear window has some stress marks in it. While it’s perfectly functional as-is is will need to be painted and rebuilt to match the condition of the car. The car is nearly always driven with the top down so rebuilding the hard top hasn’t been high on the priority list. The interior is still in very good condition; the seat leather still feels soft, the carpets are good, the dash has no cracks, and all instruments work correctly with the exception of the clock— it could use a conversion to a quartz movement. Tires are fresh as of April 2015. The car is about due for fresh weatherstripping on both the doors and convertible top. It’s a great and very nice driver-quality car that shows well at local car shows. Since we’ve owned it we have performed the following rebuilds and upgrades: Engine rebuild to near-stock 396/425hp specs (correct 11:1 TRW forged pistons, rectangular port closed chamber heads, original grind solid flat tappet cam, Comp roller-tip rocker arms.) Engine currently has an Edelbrock victor junior aluminum water pump and Edelbrock RPM air-gap dual plane intake installed. However, but we do have the original water pump and correct GM Winters aluminum intake to go with it. Engine has the correct Holley vacuum secondary carb. 7 bladed HD fan and fan clutch (original 5-bladed fan included) Rebuilt transmission (Muncie M21 close-ratio) McLeod SFI-approved billet steel flywheel and Mcleod dual performance disc and pressure plate, Speed Inc spherical jointed clutch linkage for lighter clutch effort (original cast flywheel and clutch linkage included.) Flywheel, clutch, and linkage all fresh as of 2015. Rebuilt rear end (3.70 gears, posi) SSBC stainless calipers all around Fully rebuilt front end with polygraphite bushings Rebuilt rear suspension-- radius rod bushings, new half shaft and driveshaft u-joints, etc. Griffin aluminum radiator (original GM radiator is included) Pertronix electronic distributor conversion and MSD 6A ignition (tucked below the heater box) Extras / original parts included that are not in the pictures: GM hardtop (as mentioned above, while the top is functional the paint doesn't quite match and it could use a repaint to match the car plus a headliner and a fresh rear window.) GM / Winters intake manifold. I got tired of it rewelding it after it kept cracking at the typical spots around the bolts at the top of the intake ports-- hence the Edelbrock intake on the car now. The intake will need to be rewelded around the top most bolts and bead blasted if you want to put it back on the engine. GM/Harrison radiator Original spare tire carrier (not on the car at the moment) Points for distributor Original cast flywheel and clutch linkage Original waterpump, fan clutch, and 5-blade fan Please contact me with any additional questions. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE
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