5 reasons to love a C3 corvette
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- Опубліковано 5 січ 2023
- in this video, I will attempt to demonstrate why I love the C3 corvette and all its weird features. if you like this video and want more reasons please let me know in the comments.
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The way you present the car, GM could have sold a million of these things if you
doing a Commercial for them back in the day. 👍
Haha this made my day!
Thank you
I've owned a C6 and a C7, but the C3 is probably my favorite Corvette body style ever. I love those dramatic lines with the large tires. Man, what a badass looking car.
I own a C4 myself, but the sharks are my favorite body style also.
Bad ass vette man
Beautiful car, I love the C3 body style. I have an 84 C4, classic Corvettes are fun to drive.
Love the c4! Specially early models
I have a stunning lemans blue 2005 c6. The c4s were the least good looking Bette’s in my opinion but still nicer than most cars of that era. Look what they did to the Camaro. My 81 was a beautiful car and the next generation was hideous.
It's great to see the younger generation admire and appreciate the C3 Corvette. Great content. 👍
One of my favorite cars of all time. C3 corvette 👍
Thank you!
I'm picking one up in the next few weeks and I'm watching hundreds of videos on it 😂😂
Amazing!
Be sure to check your birdcage for rust!
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@@c3sgarage I didn't even know to check that. Thank you
I traded my 82 elcamino about a week ago for a one owner 60k miles 79 c3 . C3 been sitting indoors since 03, so she needs work , but does run and somewhat drive. I always wanted a c3 . At 60 years old I finally got one . Super happy with the trade. Had the Elco for a few years and basically just finished rebuilding it. Everyone tells me I got the better end of the deal. I agree. C3 is what a vette should look like.
I bought a 79 new in 1979 for $12,100. It now (2024) has 12,500 miles on it. Blue on blue (see thumbnail). Just replaced the tires after 44 years. Always garaged, always covered, never seen rain or snow. Still in mint condition.
Kinda sad you don’t get to drive it hardly at all ?!!
I have an early '77. I've had her for seven years and I'm still working on fixing the bubbafication done by the previous owner, but she's coming along nicely. My hope is to get her a new paint job for her 50th anniversary.
Nice ride bud. Keep the dream alive
Thanks man! She’s alive and well!
Nice Video! 👍🏼
I have a 79 in original condition too and love it for over 30 Years… 😎
Greetz from Germany! ✌🏼
My wife and I have a 69' Daytona Yellow. We love our C3. Nice video.
Such a beautiful ride. Prices for C3 here in Europe are insane, though. It is almost twice as cheap for me to fly to the US, buy the car and ship it across Atlantics. Which is probably what I'm gonna end up doing because I am absolutely in love with it.
Thank you for the kind words!
It is incredible to think that this car is so pricey in other countries. Good luck in your search and let me know if I can be of help in any way
@@c3sgarage Thanks, mate! I have a resto-mod project on my mind, and it will take me some time to prepare for this adventure.
However, I'd appreciate some advice on where other than Craigslist to look for deals in New York, Boston, Miami, or Pittsburg. I've been thinking for some time already to spend a couple of months in the US alone and with my cousin's family, who lives in the Pittsburg area, and I'll need a ride to get around. I would have to get the ride either near my point of entry or my cousin's town. Maybe start working on the car there so as not to ship, say, engine parts later. Who knows, it's nothing but a venture at this point.
As for prices in the EU, -- it's half fair, half robbery.
Obviously, you in the US have a much larger supply of vintage US cars; I'm now sitting on maybe 10 total offers in my state and 20 in neighbouring states, with prices sitting around $40k. However, 95% of those are already restored. I'll have to throw away a lot of brand-new parts to have it as I want it. And those eligible for restoration are frankly in poor condition. I'm speaking deep rust, missing parts, overheating engine, "dunno, won't even start" poor conditions.
And best of all, I still have to pay the same import duty if I bring the wheels from the neighbouring town 100 miles across the border as I would from the US and then pay the difference in VAT on top of that. I see that as an insult, frankly speaking :)
When importing from outside the EU, though, taxes and import duties are infuriating. The VAT alone brings the price up by a quarter because it is calculated from the total cost of the goods, including shipping costs and import duty. But hey, at least there are 10x more offers in the US, and I could browse for a perfect match instead of dealing with what's available, which is not much.
@vladsikorsky7931
Yeah, upon reading this and talking to a couple of friends over london (putney)
I got the same situation back, they are expensive, they are total messes, and because they were imported previously, they charge an arm and a leg for them. One of my colleagues brought a point on having a c3 in a not so suitable weather. He told me that he owned a classic car as well and because he had to maintain it outside , the car built rust and mold for some reason. On a positive note, Corvettes do rust, however is not the body but the chasis and components.
So there’s that lol
As for where to buy, I would say Facebook market has a pretty decent lineup depending on your budget. I would go as far as to say that Offer up is a good alternative and it was where I found the one I currently own.
It truly sucks how bad the import of cars is and but it is the same if I want to import a GTR or a supra from overseas.
As mentioned, I am just a click away to help and although I am not an expert, I can ask around and if I need to, I can make a video on the subject.
I wish you good luck!
Nice car! I also have a 79 vette, mine is white, all original, even shocks lol and got only 30k miles with all documents and matching numbers :) I hope you keep yours and enjoy for many years.
Great video!
....miss my '77...loved that car!
One thing I love about the C3 is the hourglass shape
I had a 79 Corvette. thank you so much.
Gorgeous 'ole muscle car!
Thank you!
Been waiting for days to drive but the rain is nonstop here in Houston
Cool video man!
Had a BABY BLUE 79 DK BLUE Leather INSANELY clean, HATE that i got rid of it LOVE ta hv it now....What a CAR! Glad u happi bro..................
Sweet. Looks super mean and purposeful with the black rims
That telescope steering wheel 🤌
Beautiful ride man. Great taste
Thanks man I do the best I can!
Good looking car.
Love the t-top and hideaway headlights
Luv my 71, too.
Keep the c3 videos coming my new friend , I like the c3 vettes as well ! 🍺😎
Thank you! Your support motivates me to continue improving… and yes this beauty is not going anywhere!
My son just bought a 1976 C3, and he loves it.
Love the 76 style!
Great i really love 79 C3 Vette one of my fav great car ❤
GR8 video clip
Good taste, looks better than most cars in 79 and today.
Agreed!
I just picked one up last week(79) and had no idea it had a telescoping steering column, right on, thank you.
…same here, I had no idea…thanks! 🙂👍
Thanks both for the support!
Hey man, beautiful vette. I just bought a 79 myself. Being delivered tomorrow. I pretty much love all the same things you do about the car. It is such a beautifully designed body and interior. If you want to make it a lot faster, change out the heads and the cam. That would make it fast as hell. Good luck with it and drive safe.
Hey James, congrats, and welcome to the club🎉🎉
Before making the car faster, I gotta fix a couple of leaks hahaha.
Welcome to America my man.
I also own a '79. I'd add to to your list of reasons to like the car. It's a wonderful Blank Slate to work on. Your freed up to change the performance to what-ever you want. No worries about what you might be doing to originality because no-one cares about that sad, weakling SBC the car was delivered to it's original dealer with under the hood. I'm still pretty amazed at the idea of the L-82 call out badging I removed so many years ago. The very idea that this even happened is a reminder of how very bleak things had gotten in the years of those first efforts to produce cars with an eye toward cleaning up what came out of the tail pipes.
Thank you for this feedback, I will definitely gather some thoughts on a future video with your idea specifically in mind.
Thank you again and glad I can help!
Nice vette bro👍
One of the best Corvette ever made ❤
You forgot -awesome almost 50/50 front to rear balance , great rear independent suspension , relatively low weight , affordable price for a sports car, a fiberglass body that won't rust , ease of finding parts and lots more ! Nice car !
You got some really good additions! May still some of them for my next review lol
Really enjoyed your video. We had a 71 C3 back in the early 80's. 454/4Speed/AC Delete. Now we have a 2000 C5 but wish we had the old C3 back...anyone want to trade? LOL
Thank you for viewing my video! I am an inexperienced classic car lover!
I gotta say I am truly in love with this car haha
dream car is an 82, love the vid man
Love the redesign of the 82’s but not too crazy about the twin throttle-body fuel-injection lol!
@@c3sgarage i just really like the tiny spoiler they added at the back lol, plus the collectors edition
The L82 is a great engine to build off of. The block is the same as the 70/71 LT1.
Great video and beautiful car. Did you buy it like this in such great condition? Or did you fix it up yourself? Also how much was it? I’ve been really interested in possibly buying one.
Hi man!
Thank you so much for the comment!
It was a mixed bag tbh, the car in general was in good condition but I have been slowly tweaking and fixing certain aspects of it. The car had 2 owners making me the 3rd and last! I got this one under 12k. If you are interested in getting one let me know what you are looking at as far as specs of it and I can review it on mines as there were several changes from 1970 to 1979.
You forgot the most important thing. The rear window was brought back as a salute to the C2s rear window. Hagerty did an article on this and how beautiful the shape of the 78-79 vettes are with that salute.
I have a white on red 1979 ‘Vette, my father designed them…
That is huge!
Really interested in learning more about your vette and your dad’s vision!
Could I contact you on DM?
main thing to look for any vette is the frame ,especially where the side rails meet the rear main cross member .fiber glass springs are nice and ride smoother then steel springs.look at all the suspension bushings ,are the good or need replacing .the power steering system needs to be checked out for leaks ,and the brake system needs inspections .most people who by vettes don't takke good care of them ,changing fluids
I have a 1980 with a 434 , 4l80e trans a 4 link fab 9 with 4.11 gears. Car runs 10.82 @ 130 mph at an airport no prep runway
I only need 1 reason to love a C3 and that is the lines.
The most emblematic body style of all corvette generations.
You could add:
The T top open style
Drive watching the fenders looms
The good quality of ride for a sport car
Mechanical simplicity. And if you want performance, there are a lot of economical kits for the venerable 350 to convert this car in a very fast car
The seats do lock under breaking G force ... If you want to test try to make your passenger seat fold forward under breaking. I took my seats out and found this out.
May have to try it out, Thanks for educating me on this!
beauty
Thanks man!
How much did you buy this beauty for ? 22 years old newly graduate engineer and I am seriously looking into buying a used C3 and renewing it !
Hey man!
Congrats on graduating!! Much success.
I bought this beauty for around 9k back in pandemic days.
It is a great project car, but one thing I would recommend, is really digging for which model and year you are wanting. There is also a lot of information on what to look for regarding rust and body damage.
Best of lucks
The C5 was the last to have pop up headlights. The C6 came with fixed lights.
how dumb of myself lol Thank you for noting!
@@c3sgarage no problem dude, love your car, I have a white C4.
@@josharias21 growing up I had a framed poster of a 69 C3 on my wall. I will definitely be buying One some day.
i dont need 5 reasons. c3 corvette is just awesome.
Best comment ever!
How many horse power will I gain by adding a performance cam and performance carb to a 78 Corvette with 350 small block :/ ?
Not an expert here but I did ask my vette shop! Depending on the cam, you could get 10-30hp overall increase in performance. If you decide to add a performance carb, it will also depend on the carb and the “tune” you give it. You also need ti consider that by adding a performance carb, you may also want to look at other parts such as exhaust. Hope this helps!
@@c3sgarage I got a flomaster something at a muffler shop. I don't know what the difference is between a muffler and exhaust. Like I don't know if it's a flomaster muffler or flomaster exhaust. I also have exhaust manifold. 😵💫
Well remember that a muffler controls noise levels for the most part, and the exhaust controls the gas output as well as car back pressure and a small portion of the performance of the car.
@@c3sgarage did u watch my little video I made the engine is out I think. I will make a video of the underneath or something. So when I went to the muffler shop and bought flomaster.. I have a flomaster exhaust or a flomaster muffler? 🤔what one sounds normal 😦?
honestly, without looking at it, I cant tell you. From the video in black and white, it seems like you got the mufflers installed.
Blue valve covers?
They were blue, I have just recently painted them red
To be truthful aren’t most vetts like Harleys mostly hauled or stored, ride way to ruff for any kind a daily car !!
I have a 71. But know of a 79 that I would like to would be a great car to restore.
😊
How much is this 40 year car worth, please and thank you.
It actually depends on the estate of the car, frame rust, No. of owners, miles, numbers matching etc. it is hard to pin point to an exact price, but they usually range from $8000 for a “good” one to 13-15k for a limited or almost perfect estate model
I hear ya but seats my boy seats lol
the c3 is beautiful minus the underpowered high displacement engine. had it originally come with the big boy engines from the 60's it would have been awesome for its time. luckily swap culture can save these cars!
The ones (c3's) that suffered with emissions regulations from the government at that time, were still among the fastest American production cars.
At over 40 years old virtually none of these cars have there original engines intact. The great part about an emissions era car is that engine freedom. No big worries about what losing originality under the hood and what that would mean to the value of your car. "big boy" engines from the 1960s? Which would those be? Outside of some really exotic very high priced L88 or ZL1 427s I can't think of any engines that would be something I'd want between the fenders these days. Engines from the late '60 and early '70s had flat lifter cams and grossly inferior heads to what's available now and they come up way short. Today even a traditionally configured carburetor topped SBC can lay waste to memories of the "big boy" engines. Roller cammed 383 crate engines start at the power levels well above those of the late 60s and early 70s. 400in and larger strokes get to levels that would have seemed so racy in the pre-emission era no-one would have imagined it could be street friendly vs arrive at the drag strip on a trailer crazy. Modern BBCs configured with all the modern tech make mountains of torque and Horse power. 800HP has become so common if your willing to go there that it no longer even seems especially crazy. Then there are those LS swaps for guys who are willing to go to completely modern. 500+ starting points and MPG both. Time is cruel mistress. Lift the hood at a car show and an all original "big boy" engine will provide fond memories from those of us old enough to remember them. But a quick spin in 'em and the lack of "go" is where it becomes a dilemma for an owner of an older all original car. You know you could do far better but moving away from all original isn't the easy choice that it is in an emissions era car.
Can’t these original engines be rebuilt for a couple grand into high performance? Isn’t a 350 block similar to the ones 7-8 years earlier?
@@Mncrr They can and in the 1990s that might have been worth doing to keep up with what is considered "decent sports car power". Back then the goal might have been 300HP-400HP. That 300+ HP could be done reasonably with just a top end make-over. Vortec heads, an aggressive flat tappet cam and the stock 350 cubic inches. Today though 400HP is barely entry level power. To get something reliable at power levels this high and at a reasonable price it's pretty tough to beat a crate motor. You could do it with the original engine but by the time you add that roller cam, modern aluminum heads and a stroker crank, rods and pistons you'll need to make it happen.......the idea of a complete motor with a warranty delivered for installation gets pretty hard to match considering the cost of the parts and machine work.
@@stevejewell9263 thanks pal. Is it worth just going to and ls and a tremec. I know it’s a personal preference since most 75-81 corvettes aren’t worth over 15k but I’m guessing close to 10k to do that.
Have a 78 have a love hate relationship with it.
Haha!
I love mines when “everything” works, but trust me, I curse at it a lot behind the cam hahaha
@@c3sgarage lol sometimes when she doesn’t want to start I do the same thing lol then she finally turns over
The chair backs do lock something's wrong with yours
I have heard this before, they seem to look when there is a sudden stop, but never lock on the regular basis🧐
1981 C-3 put more money into the thing than it is worth. Heavy car.
no room inside.
Gas guzzling.
NEVER AGAIN
Haha this comment has a lot of truth to it!
You need to know the difference between electricttric and the electronics
Have just looked it up and learned lol!
Thank you for this
BATMOBILE
Their called seats not shares
😂😂😂
automatic what a losd
Chick's car
I had one, it was hot inside above 70°, the brakes never worked right , T tops leaked, engine didn't have the power of a 6 cylinder, the power assist steering was joke. I could go on for awhile and cover every system on the car. Worst GM product I ever owned and I like GM. Good luck.
Lol I was thinking wow he is literally saying everything wrong with mine haha.
I still love this car and it is not made for everyone for sure.
First of all... They're seats... Not chairs. Chairs have legs. And it's not a 40 year old car, it's 44 year old car. 🤦