myoriginal77

Good idea - Nice work - Great save -

Frank

snoopykissedlucy

The two tools that have no business in the repair of a Corvette:

The come-along winch and the hammer.

I used the latter on a steering column shaft and collapsed it. Pure Bubba.

63mako

I call it Bubba when someone else does it. When I do it I "McGuyver'ed" it.

kdf1986

Hello
at first I thought you were going to tow it out of your garage. I was ready to see the after photo of the vette minus the windshield.

I'm glad it worked out for you. I also like the term Bubba Lube.

kdf

2armor

or in my case my brother with a beer in one had and a camera in the other coaching me "Oh yeaaah, that'll work fine"!

My wife dont even bother checking on me anymore.. I have to go in the house to get my own bubba lube now.

joewill

good work.... but still, what is the root cause. How did it get bent that way in the first place? how did it fit there before?

OMF

Ohhhh.......Boyyyy you should open a school.....you could call it "BUBBAS SCHOOL OF TECHNIQUE" but you'd have to have a special cool room to keep those bubba lubes in

Great Story...glad everything worked out

turtlevette

you should probably sit in the passenger seat and push and pull as hard as you can on the corner of that frame to see if anything is loose.

I think i would have tried to move it by hand first or used a sledge and wood blocks. Those come along straps are very elastic so its very hard to move something in a controlled way.

You are indeed very lucky.

Bronze76

At least you took the windshield out first....real Bubba would have tried with the glass installed still (not sure how the strap would have attached though).

Great to see that your idea worked and you are happy with the results. Great looking car! '75 convertibles are REALLY growing on me lately. Something about the drop top on a rubber bumper car just fits perfectly in my opinion.

Did you check the top and see if it fits well? Do you have the optional hard top? If so, does it fit?

Did I already say your car looks cool?

leskinner

Hi Joe
The car had been wrecked at least twice prior to my purchase. I can tell the right hand door and front fender are replacements. The windshield had also been replaced. It was a wreck when I bought it and the passenger side window was stuck half way up and the power window sector gear was stripped. I don't know if that window ever went up, I don't think it could have. I had to remove the mechanism for rebuild and didn't replace it till after repair, panel fit, and paint. Big mistake, live and learn.
Enjoy !
Larry

leskinner

Got a reefer full of bubba lube !!
Ya'll come !
Larry

leskinner

Yeah I know
I did try the wood block and sledge but swinging that hammer that hard that close to new paint raised the pucker factor way too high. The thing just wouldn't move. I also figured the elasticity of the straps could be a problem but chains hanging over the new paint sounded worse. Don't know if I'd ever try something this goofy again.
Enjoy
Larry

leskinner

Thanks Bronze!
I too am a huge fan of the 75 rag top. I looked for a long time for one, passing by many others in the process. I finally found this one just up the road a ways in Daytona. It has ps,pb,air,pw,t&t,and 4-speed. It doesn't have the L-82 I wanted, it has the original L-48 which I rebuilt into a 383 stroker. It had been wrecked and I paid probably 5 times what it was worth but how many times do you find exactly what you want? Worth it to me anyhow.
Yes the top frame fit is good, new top from willcox ready to go on.
It doesn't have the hard top. It did originally but I had a hunch the seller had it hidden in order to sell it seperately.
Gettin' real anxious to get this thing on the road
Enjoy!
Larry

oldsarge

Gave me chills just looking at the pics. Good job.

UCVette

Dude, that is a great story. However I too would have put the truck in drive after way too many beers

jcloving

It took courage to do that. Lots of it.

You have also probably used up all of your luck for the entire project. The next time you try something like that it will likely end in disaster.

I was expecting to see the window frame lodged in the rear window of the truck.

sweeet76

I would probably have left the vette in netural, realized it after I started to pull, slammed on brakes, and rear ended my self.
Great job. Sometimes with these older cars, we have to use our imagination.

Jack Wood

Here in Georgia, a real Bubba would have put one end of a railroad tie in the floorboard and chained the other end of the railroad tie to our mud buggy and prised it out a little bit. It would have been a two day job cause we'd spend all the first day just drankin' beer and studyin' the sitiation to make sure we did it right.

robieWI

Improvise, Adapt, Overcome

Classic car motoring at its' best!

Glad to see you had good results.

71scgc

Your 'Bubba Life' count just went down one...Keep track, Bubba lives are universal. You don't get a seperate account for auto work, etc.