By stevef1972z
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I decided it would be nice to put something together to track the life of this car. I have had a lot of different cars over the years from MGs to Lifted 4x4s. I sold my 1979 Z28 T-top Camaro with 435hp 445lbt/ft after I got a little bored with going in a straight line. I started looking around and found my Z.
Its a 72 numbers matching car that I am 3rd owner from what I can tell so far. I should have found this site before I bought the car and I would have know more of what to look for.
4th of July weekend I picked the car up and took off with a toolbox, extra oil, water, tape, fuses and thought I had it covered. 17 miles later it started to overheat. Pulled over let it cool down and added about a half a gallon to the radiator. Its full of build up so I didnt think too much about it. After getting down to 150ish I thought I would try again. Made it 7 more miles before it blew the head gasket in a plume of white smoke. I limped it to the next exit let it cool for an hour and then limped it to a gas station to get a tow truck. Had it drug home.
I made the driver pull past my house and drop the Z at the top of the hill. Paid him went to the house, opened the garage door and jumped into the Z and coasted it in the door. It didnt get towed into the drive, a moral victory!
I dug through the car and the box of stuff that came with it and found a few manuals. The long weekend was over, my wife was at a conference for the week, so I came home every night, put in a couple hours on it each night. It was only a total of 6 hours worth of work but it took me about 4 nights.
Once I got it running and through several milkshake oil changes I took it out where it promptly stopped running only three blocks from home. Had to hook it to the Jeep and drag it back.
Tell you more later, it gets better!
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