"Rare" is over used
10-18-2007, 01:13 AM
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Mine are One of One
Roy sold that car. I doubt he will jump in on that.
No other Corvette around has the same VIN as them. Or at least, I hope not.
10-18-2007, 08:00 AM
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Anymore, any corvette that hasn't been frame off'd is getting to be rare. Theyr'e only original once, no matter how you slice it.
I'd like to find a good old original car and just preserve it. Survivor class was a good initiative for NCRS.
I'd like to find a good old original car and just preserve it. Survivor class was a good initiative for NCRS.
10-18-2007, 09:15 AM
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Yeah, and my 62 was the very first Corvette in the history of all corvettes to be the 14,120th one built in a model year, and yet I don't have a TV show on SPEED called "The first 14,120th Corvette"
10-18-2007, 10:19 AM
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10-18-2007, 11:44 AM
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[QUOTE=1955 copper;1562351554]I pull a tear drop trailer , You need them
Roy:
Good for you. The purists must get the vapors when you pull up with a trailer. Dad and Mom pulled a motorcycle trailer with motorcycle behind their '56 right up until recently.
Beautiful car you have there. Bless you for driving the Hell out of it.
Black60
Roy:
Good for you. The purists must get the vapors when you pull up with a trailer. Dad and Mom pulled a motorcycle trailer with motorcycle behind their '56 right up until recently.
Beautiful car you have there. Bless you for driving the Hell out of it.
Black60
10-18-2007, 01:26 PM
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I guess you can use that term. It is still here w/o any filtering
It is a a better description than mne. More to the point. Each car is what is ...rarity is not determined by the combo of options or lack of options or the fact that a car has an option that almost no one bought. There are signif. rare cars and then there are the rest. End of story.
Like it or not the VAST majority of the cars are in classified in the "The Rest" grouping despite what some owners have concocted as justification of rarity. If you want rarity the resto mod cars are rare, perhaps I should say unique, because every one is a custom built one of a kind..
It is a a better description than mne. More to the point. Each car is what is ...rarity is not determined by the combo of options or lack of options or the fact that a car has an option that almost no one bought. There are signif. rare cars and then there are the rest. End of story.
Like it or not the VAST majority of the cars are in classified in the "The Rest" grouping despite what some owners have concocted as justification of rarity. If you want rarity the resto mod cars are rare, perhaps I should say unique, because every one is a custom built one of a kind..
10-18-2007, 04:54 PM
#31
Before I started modifying it, my convertible was a special-orderded parade car, one of 12 bought annually by a group of Omaha Shriners.
My guy only wanted to use it in parades, so he went about as base as possible. Riverside Red, white soft top, silver and red interior. Two-fifty horse 327, Powerglide and 3:36 Posi rear. Manual steering, manual drum brakes, 6.70 x 15 General Jet-Air II whitewalls. AND RADIO DELETE!
It only went 3,000 miles in his year of ownership. I got it two years later after his son-in-law had added another 13,000. And today it's over 300,000 miles.
I'd say it was rare, but not especially desirable. Now the other end of the spectrum, a car with all the performace/race options and a/c would be. But that would have taken a special order or COPO, like the convertible '63 Z06.
My guy only wanted to use it in parades, so he went about as base as possible. Riverside Red, white soft top, silver and red interior. Two-fifty horse 327, Powerglide and 3:36 Posi rear. Manual steering, manual drum brakes, 6.70 x 15 General Jet-Air II whitewalls. AND RADIO DELETE!
It only went 3,000 miles in his year of ownership. I got it two years later after his son-in-law had added another 13,000. And today it's over 300,000 miles.
I'd say it was rare, but not especially desirable. Now the other end of the spectrum, a car with all the performace/race options and a/c would be. But that would have taken a special order or COPO, like the convertible '63 Z06.
10-18-2007, 08:30 PM
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