I wonder If history is going to repeat itself like it did with the C1, 2, & 3 Corvettes? If so our C4s have only one way to go in price and that is up. Four years ago I could of bought a clean 76 with 90K on the clock which needed mufflers and thats about it. Paint was good interior had average wear and the seller wanted $5,000. While I thought is over some Lucky guy picked it up. Yesterday I got my latest issue of Corvette Magazine which uses A & B Investments as a price guide for Corvette buyers. I know many on this Forum consider KBB the official price guide for Corvettes just as if we were dealing with Mustangs or Impalas. However the average 76 according to A & B in now going for 10 Grand and a well kept example is valued at $15,000. A show ready will net you near $20,000. A 82 Collectors Edition show ready can expect $30,000 for his maligned Crossfire Edition Corvette. However Until the market wakes up and see the real value of the C4 I guess we will continue to see Early C4s being handed over to prospected buyers for three to Five Grand. About the same some are willing to pay for some High School kids tired 5.0. Mustang?

 

I'll be happy if values start changing and I think they should. I keep my 96 Comp Yellow Coupe super clean. It only has 22k miles on her. All original and almost every option including both painted and glass tops.
If values go up I should do alright if I ever decide to sell her.

I drive in summers only and up to the Woodward Dream Cruise. The Dream Cruise is next week I can't wait!!

http://www.woodwarddreamcruise.com/

 

I think values will increase over time. Back in the late 70's the early solid axle cars were cheap. I remember driving a starfire yellow 67 vert in spring of 87, car had air, wood wheel, knock offs, etc., was in great shape, 90K miles, for 17K. But, it will be the nicer, clean, low mileage C4s that will bring the money.

 

I have been buying and selling muscle cars for 20+ years and I can tell you, there are basicly none that havent gone up in value. Most have a low point, I cant tell you the the C4's have hit that point yet, but I thinkthey must be pretty close. I looked at many chevelles 10+ years ago and could get a nice one for $3-8 grand, now i cant touch a nice one for under $15, restoreable ones are in the old price range. the chrysler muscle cars of the 60's where almost worhtless 10+ years ago, now some are hitting $30-60,000 (normally the really rare ones). We C4 owners have alot on our side. Realitivly low production numbers (compared to normal cars). Performance cars/ sport cars are almost alwasy more colectible then other cars. The C4 values will go up, I'm 100% sure. The only neagtives i can see is while its a farily low production number, there are alot still around (people tend to take somewaht better care of a 2-3X normal priced car, and if they dont take care of it, they hang onto it parying they will get some $$$ out of a car they abused the crap out of).

But I'm lucky, I'm one of thsoe that is just dang happy to have one, I didnt buy it to make money, I bought it to drive, drive lots! and so far I'm one satisfied C4 owner...


Clok

 

I think the C4's will fare much better than the '73 on C3's.
To me, the C4 represents the salvation of the Corvette.
I was a teen aged "gear head" in the 70's and I remember;
*the oil embargo
*the media's continual humiliation of GI's
*watergate-EVERY FREEKIN NIGHT FOR TEN DAMN YEARS!.
*double digit inflation
*unemployement
*The fall of the Shaw and the hostage crisis
*the 55 mile per hour speed limit
*Corvettes with decreasing HP, bad paint and poor fitting body panels.
I also remember when GM considered making a 4 door Vette. The Americana? Dark times for sure.

The '73 to '82's are now increasing in value. If they can pull out of that
hole, the C4's will be just fine.

 

The problem is, in real life these numbers are rarely realized.

 

I own a C4 with 27,745 miles i was told it is not worth big bucks because of the C5 population. I sure hope the values come back? (1995)

 

Don't forget the "Soylent Green" and "Omega man" movies
I thought I had very little to look forward to...

Someone should have told me I'd get a vette one day

 

Good point, what happens when a million - high mile, half worn out C5's begin to flood the market, I already think it's beginning to happen.

But I feel that C4's will certainly begin to rise at some point.
I just hope I haven't thrashed mine to much by then.

Since I can't yet seem to afford more than one vette at a time, I'm holding out for the C6, which I finally got to drive one the other day and it was pretty impressive. Though I do think the go-kart/race car feel of the C4's won't be back, which makes our gen unique to me.

 

Cars in general are not an investment...buy them and drive them I say.

 

I think the 84's will never be worth too much, chevy only made 51,547

That said, I just drive mine as much as I can

 

Im not so sure about that. The 84 has several things in its favor IMO. Its the First of a model year of a whole new Corvette. It won Motor trends car of the year award. When I display mine its with all the info on the car of the year including decals and the history of the 84. It was a land make for Chevrolet and the Crossfire gets a bad rap IMO. You don't buy a 84 to go fast from stop lights. This car is almost 25 years old and the technology of the rest of the automobiles out there have surpassed it. Its a classic in every sense of the word and in five months that title will be official.