Our specimen for today is a 1980 Corvette owned by Oliver Walton. His C3 Corvette is almost completely ... We were lucky enough to borrow a lift at Powerhaus, but this job could be done in your ...

However, the car remains on the original chassis and the entire refurbishing process is being done without lifting the body off the frame ... While the C3 Corvette is no match for a modern ...

Not only was it the longest, at 15 years, but this Corvette generation ... the car had a lift-off, Targa-style roof, but without the reinforcement of a fixed panel, the body flexed too much.

Footage from the aftermath, shared by 6ABC, shows the C3 Corvette dangling from the damaged lift. Surprisingly, the exterior of the Corvette doesn’t appear to have sustained major body damage.

The C3 got fender ... thanks to a high-lift camshaft, forged steel crankshaft, four-barrel carburetor, and a few other goodies. One of the rarest versions of the Corvette from that era, the ...