Restored 1969 Corvette Stingray

If you find a 1969 Corvette Stingray today it is a good bet that is not to close to the original car that shipped from the factory almost 40 years ago. Pat O'Neil was lucky enough to find a '69 Corvette Stingray that only had 27,000 miles on it and still had the original factory grease on the suspension and grease pen markings from quality inspectors on the frame. That's pretty close to factory original, but the car had two major problems. The interior was rotted do to water damage and the previous owner painted the car a disco blue metallic fleck.

Pat worked with his brother to restore the interior to the original color and got the fiber optics in the console to work. He had the existing paint media blasted to the gel coat and then repainted it lemans blue, right in his own garage. Pat rebuilt the original 350 small block engine and now it runs like a dream. He takes the T-tops off when the weather permits and drives it on a daily basis. Pat's 1969 Corvette Stingray is as close to the factory as you can get.

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