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Old Jan 5, 2005 | 03:05 AM
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last time i checked, the C4 wasn't available in 1980

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Old Jan 5, 2005 | 03:09 AM
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Old Jan 5, 2005 | 03:57 AM
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Prototype?!hehe
bad one
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Old Jan 5, 2005 | 06:27 AM
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I had one of those a few years ago and thought it might be valuable.....but it wasn't.
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I had one of those a few years ago and thought it might be valuable.....but it wasn't.
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Old Jan 5, 2005 | 09:25 AM
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Check out the "dubs" on it....yuck

The pic above the car looks like a Mitsu 3000 GT, not a Vette...Sheesh
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Old Jan 5, 2005 | 09:28 AM
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Thats funny.
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Old Jan 5, 2005 | 09:34 AM
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Originally Posted by 92corvette
I had one of those a few years ago and thought it might be valuable.....but it wasn't.
That doesn't make any sense... in baseball card collecting... the error cards are worth a ton more than the corrected ones. I'm surprised to see that this is not the case here.
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That doesn't make any sense... in baseball card collecting... the error cards are worth a ton more than the corrected ones. I'm surprised to see that this is not the case here.

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Might be worth more if it didn't have ugly Trans-Am wheels on it.
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Originally Posted by kwik_ta
That doesn't make any sense... in baseball card collecting... the error cards are worth a ton more than the corrected ones. I'm surprised to see that this is not the case here.
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put it on ebay and advertise it as a 1980 prototype vette... or call it an aerovette for the nostalgia effect. Tell them it is a one of a kind and very rare and ask $100 for it...
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Old Jan 5, 2005 | 04:59 PM
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Originally Posted by kwik_ta
That doesn't make any sense... in baseball card collecting... the error cards are worth a ton more than the corrected ones. I'm surprised to see that this is not the case here.
Supply and demand. In baseball cards there aren't many of the errors made, because they stop making them as soon as they notice. Hotwheels probably went ahead and made a billion of these, because it saying 1980 isn't going to affect sales by any measurable amount.
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Originally Posted by kwik_ta
put it on ebay and advertise it as a 1980 prototype vette... or call it an aerovette for the nostalgia effect. Tell them it is a one of a kind and very rare and ask $100 for it...
Seems pretty cheap to me when you can get $200 for an empty coffee can.
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Originally Posted by 92corvette
I had one of those a few years ago and thought it might be valuable.....but it wasn't.
Yup! I have the same one. checked. Not worth doo doo
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Seems pretty cheap to me when you can get $200 for an empty coffee can.
point well taken... This should be marketed to the waxers that go to car shows and have a model of there car on the cowl. They can have a model and a hotwheels... now that is rare... that alone should be worth $500... that adds repsect points which is just as good as horsepower.
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Originally Posted by proemtpff
Thats funny.
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I have a Matchbox 1987 Corvette Grand Sport

I've been saving it in the package and my wife just laughs at me.......and my still full, gold, Yoda Pepsi Can.
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i have one too
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