early, mid and late breakdown

[Terry M.]

Re: early, mid and late breakdown

Yes, Terry's green lights been on, but he has not said a word. I think he may be dozing. His light is on, but no one is home.

You are reading way too much into that green light. It just means I left the discussion board up and my computer on. It doesn't even mean anyone is home. If I am at work I could be at a meeting or on the phone, or not even at my
workstation.

I said my piece at the beginning of this thread. There isn't anything more to say.

[Ridge K.]

Re: early, mid and late breakdown

Yes, Terry's green lights been on, but he has not said a word. I think he may be dozing. His light is on, but no one is home.

I now fully understand early, middle, and late production, and also clearly understand that many aficionados are of the opinion that anyone who asks a question about it in relation to the whole car is a real dummy. They will be sent back to their room to study further, so they can return with a serious question pertaining to some specific aspect of the corvette. I'm cool with it. John Smith never did bother to come back.

I got swatted a few times myself, when I first got on the TDB. In hindsight, I learned a lot from it, ...from some of the best....

I infamously strongly argued that the gold hue on the center castings of 1967 wheel center caps was in fact an "urban myth". Likely caused by overpolishing thru the years. Aftell all, I had seen those cars brand new on showrom floors.
Then a year ago or so, an old timer offered to sell me his '67 center caps that had been removed within days of buying the Corvette, to switch the factroy rally wheels out for mags. I bought the old original center caps which had been in storage inside boxes for decades. Pulled them out to see a distinct gold hue on the center castings.

I did offer a posted apology and have promised to do nore listening to the true experts.....
Ridge

[Michael W.]

Re: early, mid and late breakdown

Much like a moth to a flame, or better yet a redneck seeing a train wreck, I cannot resist the attraction.

Don,

You say that we've discussed this on another board. No idea which board or what your user name is, obviously you recognize me because I have the strange habit of using my real name instead of a cool sounding alias.

In any case- the OP's question comes up time after time, usually because the owner is simply trying to procure the correct replacement piece for his car but is confronted with two or more versions being advertised by the vendors. These are most often labelled as early or late and the owner is left to his own devices trying to figure out what category his car fits into. The logical assumption is it's a simple matter of comparing the VIN to the production year calender and calculating what side of the fence it falls into.

Being that the physical changeovers from one version of a component to another were scattered throughout the production year and not all on one fixed date, the relative VIN and production date of the effected cars considered late or early for that individual component choice would shift accordingly.

If the world was perfect we would know that a component changed over at a finite VIN number and we would refer to this number alone and the components as pre- and post- , but that's not the way it works. Fortunately, the judging guides frequently quote the VIN number or the calender date of the event (when known) and avoid the ambiguity of early and late.

Possibly the intent of the OP's question has been changed by attempting to add yet more arbitrary terminology to a hobby that's already overrun with far too much babblespeak.

You're not the guy that was trying to sell an all-original restored numbers matching NOM survivor were you?

[Don H.]

Re: early, mid and late breakdown

Mike
I'm reading you 5 by 5 good buddy. I probably confused you with someone else.
as for that all original matched # nom survivor; no not me. I would never put a car that rare up for sale if lucky enough to own it.

[Ridge K.]

Re: early, mid and late breakdown

Mike
I'm reading you 5 by 5 good buddy. I probably confused you with someone else.
as for that all original matched # nom survivor; no not me. I would never put a car that rare up for sale if lucky enough to own it.

Good thread, Don. I feel like some excellent thoughts on the early vs late tags were well stated.

Thanks for posting. I've got to run now, as I just heard on my AM radio that there's a turnip truck turned over on county road 412, not too far from my cabin.....