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Old Sep 8, 2017 | 09:01 AM
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A friend asked me about a 1977 Corvette Daytona he found for sale. I am not at all familiar with a Daytona. Did a Google search. Is this a specialized modified car set up with unique body parts. Maybe modified for the track?

Said he can buy it without motor for $600.00. Sounds to me like too food to be true or a beat up pos?
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If I recall, the Daytona Corvette was a body kit that I think was patterned after some of the Greenwood Racing Corvettes. I think the kit was offered by aftermarket companies like Ecklers.
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Originally Posted by biackbenz
...Said he can buy it...for $600.00. Sounds to me like too food to be true or a beat up pos?...
I would lean toward the POS category.
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Can we safely assume that this is not the Ferrari Daytona replica built on a C3 Corvette.
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The daytona wide body came from a team up of greenwood and ecklers,
It was a different style wide body street version of greenwoods racer,
Both greenwood and eckler sold them and at first they even offered two versions one a bit wider,
Unlike the can am and turbo wide bodies the daytona was never very popular with very few liking it,
I see show condition ones asking 20 k and up but pos ones asking less,
Like with any cheap c3 rust and other things can make it a parts car quickly,

I have seen c3s with just a daytona street nose or hood hailed as a wide body, of course they are not,

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