QUESTION:I own a C5 Corvette and I need some help. I just became a victim of the dreaded broken shift cable. I actually had to manually shift the transmission linkage into Drive the other day just to ...

Q:Greetings to everyone at the magazine. I have enjoyed the how-to articles for several years now. I own a 1998 Corvette with a manual transmission and I like to think of myself as a weekend mechanic.

As cherry as we'd like to keep them-or as modified as we're willing to make them-some parts on any shark are going to wear out. The plastic in our early vintage cars just doesn't stand the test of ...