[s-cars] NAC - Vette parts sources?

[Taka Mizutani]

There aren't any big vette shops in NYC or Boston. Is Callaway still in
Connecticut?

Most of the vette stuff is in the midwest:

Mallett is in Ohio
Lingenfelter is in Indiana
Mid-America in Illinois

There really isn't much in the way for doing stuff to a '79 vette- those
late C3s were the nadir of performance. You need to do an engine swap or a
major rework to get real power out of those cars and the suspension was
basically the same as the C2- not much to write home about there. You could
look into doing a full subframe swap from a C5 or C6 or go full
double-wishbone coilover setup, depending on your budget.

IMHO, not worth doing much of anything to an impact bumper C3.

Taka

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Ian Duff <iduff at comcast.net> wrote:

> All of the above, suspension, brakes, toys in general. I think maybe
> my "restoration" was a stretch. Perhaps closer to what he's looking
> for would be the Vette analogy for places like 034, APR, Impex,
> Northern European Automotive, Champion in Pompano Beach, etc.
> -Ian.
>
> On 15 May, 2008, at 11:10, Joe Pizzimenti wrote:
>
> > Body, motor, what?
> >
> >
> > On 5/15/08, Ian Duff <iduff at comcast.net> wrote:
> >> Crew, I have a Swiss colleague who's visiting the US, and is looking
> >> for sources for restoration parts for his '79 Vette, hopefully in the
> >> NYC/northern NJ or Boston areas. Any thoughts or leads I can pass
> >> along?
> >> -Ian Duff.
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