Chassis Evaluation (car is not road worthy after Dream Restorations delivered vehicle)

I have created this post in order to recreate 6 years of history. The restoration of my 1968 began when I contacted Robert Parish of Cannon Corvettes who was the original owner with a partner Greg Higgins (that's him with the car). There is no person named "Cannon" and the business filed for bancruptcy in Norfolk Virginia prior to moving to Moyock N.C. Here is a Virginia Pilot excerpt, "Cannon's Recycled Parts Inc., also known as Cannon's Corvette and Cannon's Performance Center, filed a Chapter 7 liquidation". Check Norfolk public records for the liquidation date. The company no longer is filed under "Cannon" nor "Dream Restorations" so finding any information on the corporation is near impossible. Here is a list of problems:

• Front and rear spring sit car too high about 2-3 inches
• Fuel line is spliced with rubber hose
• Body is not weel fitted to the frame and has door gaps larger than normal
• Power steering slave cylinder is missing a cotter pin (safety) and nut not tight
• Front bumper brackets not corret and not installed properly
• All frame/suspension hardware replacement not original type bolts
• Exhaust not correct and poorly fitted to the car
• Missing spare tire lock
• All underbody heat shield is missing along with brackets
• Battery hold downand wires not put in correctly
• Rear diff carrier bolts not tight
• Backup light switch harness melted on exhaust and bent out of the way
• E-brake not tight or adjusted
• Front e-brake cable frayed/worn
• Clutch return spring attached to brake line instead of firewall
• Missing splash pans
• Misc. boths not tight (front crossmember)
• Carburator will not idle and is used from a 1969 Camero
• Master cyclinder replacement (original missing)
• Alternator replacement wrong date code (original missing)
• Rear diff code AW not dated correctly (original rear end missing)

1968 327/350 Restoration took 6 years

I will unfold a history of what I encountered and hope others will learn and avoid this expensive lesson. If pictures are not enough, look for me at Carlisle PA for Corvettes at Carlisle 22-24 August. You can inspect the vehicle yourself and see a list of missing parts and the invoices that never matched from month to month. Examples will include paint and body completed and paid for at $5500 and two months later jump $2000.00 dollars.

Here is some quality work performed by Dream Restorations. What we found was they glued the wiper hose to the grill and leveled the grill with scrapes of paper. I will break down the vehcle by invoice and show you pictures of the work that was performed. You judge for yourself this was worth over $42,000.00 dollars! Below is a picture of the wiper hose glued to the body of the car.