Tyla wrote: Here's a better view of the CSC front clip....As far as I know the Mid America people still own it... Cheers, T.

I've seen the mako with the cut out louvers for rear window cleaning and side windows I read details in paper work Harry sent me from Silva,
these were all options, the only way I could live with the louvered mako rear is if the louvers came off for cleaning....thats why for now I dig my louvers on my 78-82 rear window, better for daily use for me....I don't care for the side windows, randy filled his in, wise move if you ask me.

The CSC...people love it or hate it...the hood scoop would be hard to live with for daily use....
cheers, t

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Motion wrote: There is another Corvette Summer Car. I was ask not to tell the Location of the car by the owner. The 2nd car is disassembled. not sure about the engine etc. A friend of mine has seen the car 200 times. Before I told him what it was, he would not look twice at it.

Yeah I kinda like the loovers but I really like your wraparound spoiler. I'm trying to come up with a rear glass that removes from the inside.I guess one reason I like the side glass is the wagons.One had a slinder window like that.

Tyla wrote: Motion, I mean no disrespect but like I said in my first post I have heard all kinds of stories since the movie came out, like I asked in the first post I need pictures or magazine ads, I'm not saying I don't believe you I simple have to see proof, Like Randy behind the wheel.... For example a p …

I never really liked the scoop,or the flames,but I still love the car. dreamer.

Motion wrote: The car is at a Corvette Shop.. I will get the name of the shop tomorrow. A guy that works at our shop lived in the state for 10 years where the car is located and looked at the car a lot. He went back to visit this past summer, and ask about the car. They took him in the back and there it was. They …

I liked the way that I remembered the scoop being...

I didn't like it when I saw it in real life.

Tyla wrote: I'm pleased you took my post as I meant it, It's well know that Barris and or his shop/people built the Munsters cars,who knows why a shop wouldn't want it know they had a custom vette or in this case custom vette parts...I did get ran out of a shop once for looking at a couple kit cars I have no …

I just got in an 85 C4. I don't really love the body but the suspension and TPI are rad.If it works out you shouldnt be able to tell what it is when i'm finished.It was gonna' be a donor for the shark but it may be too good to strip.2is always better than 1.Maybe an 85 makomad? dreamer.

djunod wrote: From that link:

***"Corvette Summer"-Either of the two existing right-hand-drive 73 Corvette Stingrays custom built by Richard Korkes at Korky's Custom Studios in Van Nuys, California for the Mark Hamill and Annie Potts film "Corvette Summer". One of these cars is reported to be in the Los Angeles …

That would be interesting! I'd drive to see that :)

Tyla wrote: As you noticed the info on that site is somewhat dated... but like I keep saying....PICTURES....someone will prove there are more out there some day.... Cheers, T.

Since getting this hopped up c4 86 as a daily driver it shows just how dated the c3 really is.....I knew a guy who had c4 suspenion under a street rod and it drove / handled almost as well as a c4 with it's normal body.I love the c3 body the c4 is too "firebird" for me, dont get me wrong it's sweet looking then again I already started rice-ing my 86 up with rear window louvers and a rear wing, nope not a tall aluminum wing I dont think I can run an airdamn the car has been lowered and is only about 4" off the ground.
nothings impossible, vette brakes sells a front transverse leaf spring for the c3, but from the ground up chevy designed the c4 to have the bigger wheels and things that dont really help and in some cases hurt an older car,
I'm sure some people have c3's that handle as well as a c4 but apples and oranges.....
my c3 mako will always be the radical looker...
cheers, T.

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Motion wrote: I bet the one that disappeared is out of the Corvette Americana Museum and the one that Mike Yager (Mid America) has now.

I just talked to the guy I got the car from.I bought it with a built 400sb but I really wanted the big block that was in it.I'm not sure if it was originally in the car,I realize I know very little about motion,mako's,and corvettes in general.I need to find out what years they made the 427,and how many were aluminum? I'm sure you know. dreamer.

Tyla wrote: As I recall an interview with the mid america he did get it from a car museum, which is the movie car the one randy is in, the only one I have every seen in any pictures anywhere.... In the interview he complained of it being no fun to drive because the steering wheel in a very low fixed position. …

In 1969 there where 2 Corvettes with the aluminum 427 from the factory. The engine was also available over the counter and as a dealer install.

The engine is available once again new, recast from the original mold, with mods. 200 where made available complete as the RAMJET ZL1. I wanted to buy one to put in my Mako, but couldn't justify spending $25K on an engine.

2Sharks wrote: You know, the Corvette Americana Museum had a Mako Shark II. I wonder what happened to that car ???

I read somewhere the first ZL-1 all aluminum 427 was "lost" at GM and has never been accounted for....the GM mako got a ZL-1 and bill mitchell was know to drive it on the street...Imagine being in 1965 and having that pull up beside you...the iron block aluminum headed L-88 was more commen for a rare engine, you will notice far more L-88 stuff on Ebay than GM ever built.....hum?
Everything I've ever read about either engine said neither were any fun to drive on the street and were pure race engines.

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Tyla wrote: Randy, that's a great question since even GM no longer has a Mako shark II, The one running MS2 GM had was restyled into the GM Mantaray, that car had that all aluminum 427 must have been fun to drive ...however I don't recall which forum but someone posted pics saying it was GM's MS2 they had seen …

I fooled around and put an L-88 cam in the engine in my coupe.It wont idle below 2000. AWFUL tempermental especially with tri power too. If i get serious about driving it I will go back to a 400 hp cam. i have a 67 w/400hp 427 and it is as sweet as can be on the street.But of course i do love old tri power BB. I just bought another set to go on the new MAKO conv. This tri power set is set up for NITROUS, that should be FUN.

2Sharks wrote: If Bill stops by, tell him Randy says "hey". I wonder where the stuff went when they restyled the car and made the mantaray. Now theres you a rear clip!

having the toad pelts for all those goodies must be nice....wish I could just get my one project driving....
cheers, t
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rockcrusher67 wrote: DAVID or anybody, What do you know about the Cooperstown Mako ? WAYNE

Just good shopping.

Tyla wrote: I was under the impression the Cooperstown vette museum "Mako" Was the GM Mantaray on loan to them....this doesn't count as fact since I don't recall where I read it....I do know from personal experiences that many people have been adamant that the GM Mantaray was the GM Mako 2.... The fact is t …

My system crashed,or something."T" I love your wrap around spoiler,I've seen something like it but can't remember where.I want to make a diary,or video of what I'm doing.We bought a new T hink V.A Dell that cooks.My camera takes good pictures but the attachment box will only hold 130Kb my pic's are 171+Kb.When I go to b-ham I'll try shooting at a lower resulation ,might work?Anyhoo,I like to see behind me so the loovers deal is cool 2!I'd love to make bowling Green but I rather do it right than just do it.I wish I had found the car last year.I would have liked to hook up in Hotlanta m.s.Are any of you going to K.Y.?If I come I'll bring some pic's.I'd hate to slam the car back together,knowing I'd have to redo it.Gotta go dreamer.

dreamer wrote: Yeah I felt the same way about the car.I like the headlights in that position but can't seem to get it right in my mind.The indentions on the hood keep messing with me.I can't decide if I like them or not.I know it's all about customs,but I don't want to cut out anything that I have to redo later.On …

Somehow the setting had gotten bumped down, probably by the restore that they had done. Anyway it back to 500K, so upload away.

Tyla wrote: I've seen the mako with the cut out louvers for rear window cleaning and side windows I read details in paper work Harry sent me from Silva, these were all options, the only way I could live with the louvered mako rear is if the louvers came off for cleaning....thats why for now I dig my louvers o …

my digital camera set on "best" my pictures are huge, David likes 'em big but I still knock them down to about half what the camera uploads them to my computer at.
I use "ulead" photo editor does almost everything "adobe" does for free.

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dreamer wrote: Yeah I kinda like the loovers but I really like your wraparound spoiler. I'm trying to come up with a rear glass that removes from the inside.I guess one reason I like the side glass is the wagons.One had a slinder window like that.

dreamer I'm sorry but I seem to have gotten' everyone on the wrong subject again.Was there a mako hood without the dips?It almost looks like they took the light doors off and slanted back futher.The summer car's snout looks makoish but I think smoother.I was looking at the hood dips last night,and hate them worse than you hate the side windows.I like smooth transition lines.I got tied up in the Mako of it,then it hit me,heck,this is customizin'THERE ARE NO RULES!!!WE are makin'em' up as we go.Our children will tell their kids of the cars we have/are building.The "SUMMER"car is such an example.Sure the scoop was F/U the flames sucked,the taillights were cheap ect.IT's easy to pick a car apart,but this is the most recognizable vette' ever made.Hate it and love it and try to top it! "T" love that spoiler!!

dreamer wrote: I never really liked the scoop,or the flames,but I still love the car. dreamer.

I still believe the front clip of the CSC is far closer to a cut up stock than a mako clip, I will play in photo shop and see if I can ghost one over the other, go back to the first page of this thread I posted pics of each the CSC is no maco clip, the hood dips in the Maco in my opinion make the front end look wild, wild may not mean cool to everyone but without them in my eyes it looks like somethings missing, the only other good out is the styling rips like on randys hood they break it up without the dips you hate.
I've always said the same thing about the CSC like it or hate it you never forget it, when I first saw it I couldn't come close, at the risk of sounding arrogant I find it easy for others to top now....
Cheers, t.

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djunod wrote: I liked the way that I remembered the scoop being...

I didn't like it when I saw it in real life.

dreamer I'm Not sure if it's the dips I dislike or the fact that they do nothing.Honestly,it's not that I hate them,it's that I can't figure a CSC type light placement with them there.I know the dips say maco,but mine look like an afterthought.when I get a scanner I'll show you what I'm workin'on.

dreamer wrote: I just got in an 85 C4. I don't really love the body but the suspension and TPI are rad.If it works out you shouldnt be able to tell what it is when i'm finished.It was gonna' be a donor for the shark but it may be too good to strip.2is always better than 1.Maybe an 85 makomad? dreamer.

I don't understand the dips either. They aren't on the real Mako. If/when I ever get the CNC Mill, then I'm going to make grill-like panels that fill them in like on the real Mako.