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According to Corvette Black Book, In 2008 there were only 266 pace car convertibles produced. All had titanium seats, and the only performance addition to the coupes and convertibles was a Z06 spoiler was used. When I have seen one offered for sale the asking price does seem to be slightly higher than a base convertible.
As already mentioned, they are considered rare since only 266 were made. The market to find a buyer for them are probably less than the amount of them made.
IMO, only people that do the car show circuit would be interested in a Pace Car.
No one would want to have it as a DD, or even an occasional weekend driver.
There is a new pace car every year. Some of them look great. Some of them are horrible. None of them lasts more than a year to the vast majority. GM tends to produce a lot of them. There were 6,502 1978 Corvette pace cars produced. Ford and Chrysler sometimes don't sell any at all because to stay ahead of the Indy cars they have to invest quite a bit building special cars that would be too expensive to sell many. Most pace car replicas are just stickers and some trivial accessory to make them unique but they all have a large premium at the dealership the day of the race.
According to Corvette Black Book, In 2008 there were only 266 pace car convertibles produced. All had titanium seats, and the only performance addition to the coupes and convertibles was a Z06 spoiler was used. When I have seen one offered for sale the asking price does seem to be slightly higher than a base convertible.
Interesting that the one in the pic above has black seats and not titanium. Also, Emerson Fittipaldi signed each one in the console...not a big deal but cool.
No, those are titanium seats with custom embroidery. The titanium color is for much of the interior including the seating area but the trim is black (ok, ebony).
I vastly prefer the looks of the design of the pace car for 2007 over the look of the 2008, more subtle and less in your face.
I owned a 1986 pace car convert for 18 years and 105k miles. When it sold it brought about twice what a similar non pace car 86 convert was going for at the time. They built 300 clones of the original pace car. Out of the 25 vettes I have owned I kept that one the longest by a huge margin, loved driving the car and never failed to draw attention and compliments even after all that time.
This it a pic of the car just before the new owner picked it up, all original paint and the wheels were original with no rash:
I bought My 2008 Pace Car Replica in January of 2010. I was the third owner and it had a little over 7,000 miles on it. It was a Museum delivery car, and it had been traded in on a Camaro. The salesman told me that if they hadn't sold it soon, it was going to auction. I got, what I thought was, a good price, drove it 200 miles home, parked it in my shop, and proceeded to take all of those outrageous decals off. It Took me about 10 hours with a hairdryer, and broken fingernails, but now I have a great looking black, M6, Z-51, w/NPP, and 2lt package ( I did leave the green stripes on the hood). I really think that, if they survive, they may be worth a little more, but I bought mine to drive, not put away in a collection. I've got over 57,000 miles on it now, and plan to drive it many more. I have a friend in our club that bought one and paid thousands to have the decals put back on it. To each their own!
10-25-2014, 12:36 PM
2008 Corvette Pace Car ... Rare?
