Shock! The clock!!!

So Friday I'm contorted like the proverbial pretzel, seats out of the car,
flat on my back in the footwells, trying to figure out more of the electrical
system on this sorry-looking o'l shark.

I figure I'll start with the fuses, 'cause the vent fan won't run and I'm
hoping--desperately--that the reason may simply be a blown fuse.

Sure enough, I find two that are toast...manage to get them out, and new
ones snapped in...twist myself from under the dash like something out of
Cirque de Soleil...and, with high hopes and fingers crossed, flip the fan
switch.

Eureka! The sucker blows! And blows at all speeds. (That's the good
news--the bad is that the blast kicks up all the crapola that's been lying
around in this Vette since god-knows-when. And this is some funky stuff
I'm now inhaling...but who cares? I got air!)

Then my eye is caught by some strange movement. Something I've never
seen before. Something that many of YOU have never seen before, either.
Something so startling, so unexpected, that I literally did a triple-take like
a character in a Warner Bros. cartoon.

The....clock....is....ticking!

I couldn't believe it. The second hand was sweeping along, just like a
normal, regular, standard, garden-variety, functional timepiece.

Except, this chronograph was in a C3 Corvette! And as we all know, C3
Corvette clocks do not work! Hardly ever!

I was so pleased with this double-whammy of a surprise solution that,
once my initial shock wore off, I turned my attention to something else.
For maybe a few seconds or so.

And in that interlude...while my eye was momentarily away...

it stopped.

So, like so many of you, my fellow forumites, I was plunged once again
into the dark depths of timelessness. Clockless, and clueless as to why.

But, at least for one brief, shining, glorious moment when the clouds
parted, the skies brightened, and time stopped standing still, I achieved
Nirvana:

I actually witnessed a C3 clock working.

Miracles do happen.   

Aw come on, I have seen a lot of C3 clocks working.  Oh wait, that's when I worked for Chevrolet back in the 70s and early 80s.  Okay so they were new then.  They worked.

I know that feeling... Mine didn't work when I bought the car so I figure I'll fix it. I order one from Mid- America, it comes. I remove the old clock, install the new, it runs, I'm all smiles, for maybe ten minutes while I'm puttin together other dash stuff (speakers & such).
I pull it back out, check it out, dead is dead. Disgusted I put it back and sew him up. I never bothered to send it back cause No.1 I am throughly PO'd and No.2 I have had it for awhile cause the car had been in the paint shop.
So, it don't work so what... at least I have an $80.0 knob that I didn't have before...

Larry, it's probably a poor contact at the electrical cotacts in the clock.  Check the past post and you can find a good write up on how to pull the clock cover off, and clean the contacts.    It may work with your original as well.

What the heck are youse guys talkin about
The clock in the "Apple" has always werked(as long as the batt. is connected), and...it keeps correct time. Maybe ya'll just don't need to know whut time it are!

Obviously I don't need to know since she works no more... Besides I have always known that I would get there as soon as I arrived...

my clock is right twice evry day

TIME STANDS STILL SO YOUR C3 AGES NO MORE!!!  

MY CLOCK WORKS But it's part of the radio and I cant figure out how to reset it. Its digital and is 1 and a half hour early so I get where I want faster. I have tried turning and pushing all knobs, buttoms etc and nothing happens. Of course none of the books talks about setting the clock.... ANY IDEAS