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I found a few dead mice?



Not mine or a Pontiac but a cool related story. Friend of mine at work has a 60 Corvette that he has slowly been working on for 10+ years.

So – a few weeks ago he is asking me about factory bolts as most of his are pitted.
I tell him to check out AMK but due to the year of the car he is going to have to match pictures or GM numbers. He ordered an assembly manual off Ebay for part numbers.

Last week he gets it and complains how hard it is to read, of which I tell him most of the reprints are.

Tuesday he comes over to me and tells me that he found something that he forgot he had. He was cleaning out his spare bedroom Monday night. In the closest was a box that had an older reprint of the manual. He forgot he bought it off Ebay about 8 years ago and just threw the box in the closet until needed. He tells me that it is very clear to read.

I asked him to bring it in as I wanted to find out who printed it.

Yesterday he plops down a 4” thick old Chevy binder on my desk. Well I open it and first thing I notice is the paper is the old blueprint paper. Most of the pages are B and C size prints folded.

In the upper corner of the binder is “Engineering section E” and it is broken into different sections and years.

The back cover has an opening where I pull out a letter dated 1965 on Chevrolet letter head. It is signed by the VP of Chevrolet aftermarket to some hardware company. It just states that this is related to the project I talked to you about and it should get you started. (whatever that means?)


So I enthusiastically tell my friend that I believe he has been sitting on atleast a partial set of the original run of blueprints related to the 58 thru 60 Corvette! I told him to get them scanned in real size and do not use that book out in the garage!