[VIDEO] Watch a 1968 427/435hp Corvette Pulled From a Garage After a 30 Year Slumber

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[VIDEO] Watch a 1968 427/435hp Corvette Pulled From a Garage After a 30 Year Slumber


YouTuber Mid-Year Mitch usually works on 1963-67 Corvettes.

A mechanical engineer by trade, Mitch became passionate about classic cars when he helped restore the 1965 Corvette his dad got in high school.

In his latest video, however, Mitch shows us another sentimental project, a 1968 Corvette convertible that belonged to his dad’s late best friend/best man/hunting and fishing buddy Greg Averi.

“My dad had his Corvette back in 1982, and Greg also wanted a Mid-Year so they went shopping at Corvettes at Carlisle to find one,” Mitch explains about the first-year Stingray.

[VIDEO] Watch a 1968 427/435hp Corvette Pulled From a Garage After a 30 Year Slumber Greg Averi


Instead of a ’63 to ‘67, however, they wound up with a super-sharp silver over black ’68 Stingray with a 427/435 engine and four-speed manual transmission. Greg would go on to enjoy his Corvette for nine years before a wheel weight flew up and spider-cracked the paint on the driver’s side front fender, leading him to park it in an old building at his home.

The car would stay there for the next 31 years before Mitch and his helpers finally pulled it out from underneath a dusty cover, up a steep bank that had been built in the years after he parked it, and into his garage where it will be worked on once he finishes his current ’63 split-window project.

[VIDEO] Watch a 1968 427/435hp Corvette Pulled From a Garage After a 30 Year Slumber


The video shows some of the work required to get the ’68 out of its hiding spot, and Mitch admits it will require a lot of work but praises the car for being complete.

“It’s a real nice car compared to what I’m used to working on,” Mitch says, but “it’s gonna need wiring, interior, mechanical, brakes, engine work, fuel system, interior… It’s gonna need a complete overhaul. It probably could use a paint job in some areas, but I think we’re just gonna leave all that, clean it up best we can.”

[VIDEO] Watch a 1968 427/435hp Corvette Pulled From a Garage After a 30 Year Slumber


While it’s not necessarily a budget build, Mitch says he wants the ’68 to be “super reliable,” a car someone “can hop in it and enjoy it, not have any issues. Don’t want to skimp on anything like that.”

The car will need a lot of attention, “but I think it’ll be at a good home. I’m definitely honored to work on it just for as much meaning as the car has to everybody.”

Don’t miss the collection of photos at the end of the video, which closes with the promise: “We will get this car on the road again.”


Source:
Mid-Year Mitch / YouTube

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