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Hello all,

I’m Bill, 68, lately retired from a life in mechanical engineering and settled in Southern California. Most days you’ll find me tinkering with a black 1965 Corvette Stingray that still sports its original 327, although the carburetor wheezes almost as loudly as I did before I beat colon cancer a few years back. I juggle the car project with visits from three grown kids and four lively grandkids, so progress comes in short spurts. My goal is a reliable Sunday cruiser, not a museum queen. If you have any patient advice on mid-year Corvette wiring or those fickle vacuum headlights, I would sure appreciate it.

Looking forward to the conversation.

Bill
 

braniac said:
Hello all,

I’m Bill, 68, lately retired from a life in mechanical engineering and settled in Southern California. Most days you’ll find me tinkering with a black 1965 Corvette Stingray that still sports its original 327, although the carburetor wheezes almost as loudly as I did before I beat colon cancer a few years back. I juggle the car project with visits from three grown kids and four lively grandkids, so progress comes in short spurts. My goal is a reliable Sunday cruiser, not a museum queen. If you have any patient advice on mid-year Corvette wiring or those fickle vacuum headlights, I would sure appreciate it.

Looking forward to the conversation.

Bill
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Hi Bill! Welcome to the forum.
I have no corvette knowledge but did see one yesterday on my walk.
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braniac said:
Hello all,

I’m Bill, 68, lately retired from a life in mechanical engineering and settled in Southern California. Most days you’ll find me tinkering with a black 1965 Corvette Stingray that still sports its original 327, although the carburetor wheezes almost as loudly as I did before I beat colon cancer a few years back. I juggle the car project with visits from three grown kids and four lively grandkids, so progress comes in short spurts. My goal is a reliable Sunday cruiser, not a museum queen. If you have any patient advice on mid-year Corvette wiring or those fickle vacuum headlights, I would sure appreciate it.

Looking forward to the conversation.

Bill
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The best place I've found for Corvette information is the Corvette forum: CorvetteForum
It's split into separate sections for c1 through c8 and various other sections. No doubt you'll find a lot of advice on the vacuum headlights, the best of which seems to be a conversion to electric motors. If you happen to join don’t skip the forum titled "Off Topic", it's a sort of free for all not necessarily about Corvettes and it can be equally entertaining and odd. Don’t be put off if you get some bizarre answers, sometimes they like to initiate new guys but that's all outweighed by the the amount of good information you can find.
 
Welcome from your neighbor next-door in Nevada. I love California as it’s such a beautiful state.
 

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