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I pass by a '72 Corvette nearly everyday, and it's in a similar condition, maybe a little better. It has no rear wheels. It's in someone's backyard. I wish someone would rescue it. It's been parked in the same spot for at least five years. It doesn't appear to have been wrecked.
In a way, the C4 is like a dead human whose vital organs are transplanted to other humans so they can go on living as in the movie, "Return to Me."
Unfortunately, that is the fate of alot of the 80's C-4's. Parted for their driveline, suspensions and headlamps assemblies. The other parts aren't worth that much, because people are parting them rather than rebuilding.
Man, its just a car. Despite how much we may all love our cars, they are only worth what you can sell them for.
Last year I was at a cruise in and was talking to a guy with a 57 chevy conv. He had the car for 30 years. Said he started to have it crushed when he got it. Quite like our c-4's they were not worth much when they were 20 years old.
Point is, the vette is worth alot to us here on the forum, but we dont even represent 10% of the vettes out there. To alot of people a 20 year old vette is just a car, and in fact, can be a car very expensive to keep running.
Now, let me put my flame suit on!!
Man, its just a car. Despite how much we may all love our cars, they are only worth what you can sell them for.
Last year I was at a cruise in and was talking to a guy with a 57 chevy conv. He had the car for 30 years. Said he started to have it crushed when he got it. Quite like our c-4's they were not worth much when they were 20 years old.
Point is, the vette is worth alot to us here on the forum, but we dont even represent 10% of the vettes out there. To alot of people a 20 year old vette is just a car, and in fact, can be a car very expensive to keep running.
Now, let me put my flame suit on!!
No flames coming from me. If it wasn't for the guys you describe I probably wouldn't have owned the last 12 or so vettes. I bought a lot of junk and invested a little time and money and with the profit bought the next one. By the time I got to the 10th one, I had no out of pocket in a really nice car. I now drive an 07.
No flames coming from me. If it wasn't for the guys you describe I probably wouldn't have owned the last 12 or so vettes. I bought a lot of junk and invested a little time and money and with the profit bought the next one. By the time I got to the 10th one, I had no out of pocket in a really nice car. I now drive an 07.
It must be SC there are two around me in that shape. If you ask "Are they for sale" you get the "I'm gona fix it one day"...
There's a local guy who has an " interiorless, engineless and transmissionless" 96. I really want it solely for a 91-96 body style conversion. Obviously it is very far from ever running again and he wants 6k for it. Then he says that if it doesn't sell, he's probably gonna "fix" it one day. I highly doubt it...
There's a local guy who has an " interiorless, engineless and transmissionless" 96. I really want it solely for a 91-96 body style conversion. Obviously it is very far from ever running again and he wants 6k for it. Then he says that if it doesn't sell, he's probably gonna "fix" it one day. I highly doubt it...
Reminds me of this: Winter of 1980, out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of a 62 sitting in a loafing shed. Farmer said belongs to my son and refused any further info. Repeated trips by same place and covered in snow and gunk angered me. I found the son in Va., a Doctor. You know the story - gonna restore it someday. Told him to move it under cover and on blocks or it just might disappear - an idle dumb threat really (well kinda, maybe), but it worked. Car was moved into a garage and put on blocks and covered. Fast forward to 2002. I know the restoration shop that got the job and that car was totally done and on the road in 2004, the same year the doctor retired and returned to this area.