1968 #2 Car didn't have reverse lights.
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1968 #2 Car didn't have reverse lights.
Watching Mecum's tonight and the car sold at $28,500, but noticed it didn't have back up lights. 
#00002 car was Bronze, vert with 327/350hp motor. 3 speed auto. Never would have guess the second car would have had that combo. I would have guessed BB with four speed in red.
#00002 car was Bronze, vert with 327/350hp motor. 3 speed auto. Never would have guess the second car would have had that combo. I would have guessed BB with four speed in red.
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327/350hp motor. 3 speed auto.
I am also fairly certain the car could not be ordered with backup light delete.
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....I believe this was the same '68 VIN #00002 that came out of the Bob McDorman Collection in Nov of 2010.
...I just do not remember what it sold for. I was there.
...ProTeam had(may still have)'68 VIN #00015 for sale, which if I'm remembering correctly had side exhaust(prototype '69 stuff?).
...I just do not remember what it sold for. I was there.
...ProTeam had(may still have)'68 VIN #00015 for sale, which if I'm remembering correctly had side exhaust(prototype '69 stuff?).
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The VIN 15 68 C3 is still shown in the C3 Registry as belonging to Proteam.
What makes we wonder is that this is a coupe.
Didn't coupes only appear much later in the 68 production, meaning that the first or first couple of month, only convertibles where build.
What a super rare 68 this would be , is it real. Coup build in beginning of September 67 + sidepipes.
Is it real ?
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The VIN 15 68 C3 is still shown in the C3 Registry as belonging to Proteam.
What makes we wonder is that this is a coupe.
Didn't coupes only appear much later in the 68 production, meaning that the first or first couple of month, only convertibles where build.
What a super rare 68 this would be , is it real. Coup build in beginning of September 67 + sidepipes.
Is it real ?
Rgds. Günther
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There clearly were some prototype and "pilot line" coupes built. GM had to have assembled some coupes, because they were in the press pool. All of the magazines in 68 tested, or at least had pictures of coupes, as did lots of GM promotional material. I would think that VIN #00015, could easily have have been a pilot line car. I have a friend who has a 68 convertible that's around VIN 00175. In disassembling it for an NCRS body off restoration, he found a number of parts marked "Pilot" on them! Though I doubt his car was a pilot line one, obviously it did get some early prototype parts.
There were at least 3 coupes built in some manner in 67. There's a red on red one and a silver over gunmetal one, that both appear in lots of Chevrolet promotional material produced in 1967, including the sales brochure. There was also a blue on blue coupe, pictured in many of the magazines of the day.
But every 68 Corvette, did come with back-up lamps.
