View Poll Results: Mods or stock
Bone stock and staying that way
7
5.88%
Stock, but with plans to mod
3
2.52%
Some mods
80
67.23%
Heavily modded
29
24.37%
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To Mod or Not To Mod
Administrator
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 66,409
Likes: 2,061
From: Bel Air (by way of Fort Worth, TX) Maryland
St. Jude Donor '12 thru '21
Racer
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 384
Likes: 0
From: plant city florida
A nice original 67 coupe is worth $***,***.** or a lot of money. Of course 1967 was about 40 or so years ago. So if I leave my C5 unmolested and don't put that many miles on it, lets see 40 years times 500 miles a year OK that's 20,000 miles. In the year 2047 I should be able to make a tidy profit. Of course I will be close to 100 so I should really enjoy that windfall. Now if I was 10 years old it would make more sense.
I talked to a guy at our once a month NHRA fairground car show. He had a 66 roadster that he just sold for $125k. He said he was tired of it because he was only the caretaker. He really couldn't enjoy the car or put miles on his museum piece. Just wax and take it out to the occasional car show. That sounds like fun. Well, it probably does to some.
They made a ton of C5s, some will sit in a garage for the next 25+ years and be worth some money. If you own the car for the next 15 years your going to lose money modded or stock. I will let someone else take care of history I am going to enjoy my car fixed up the way I like it. A nice clean well maintained Corvette will always find a new willing appreciative owner.
Rick
I talked to a guy at our once a month NHRA fairground car show. He had a 66 roadster that he just sold for $125k. He said he was tired of it because he was only the caretaker. He really couldn't enjoy the car or put miles on his museum piece. Just wax and take it out to the occasional car show. That sounds like fun. Well, it probably does to some.
They made a ton of C5s, some will sit in a garage for the next 25+ years and be worth some money. If you own the car for the next 15 years your going to lose money modded or stock. I will let someone else take care of history I am going to enjoy my car fixed up the way I like it. A nice clean well maintained Corvette will always find a new willing appreciative owner.
Rick
well said
Melting Slicks
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 2,979
Likes: 281
From: Tulsa OK
I had a mod plan for my C5 before I even bought the car. I executed the plan over 2 years and then left it that way.....until this year. I had to rebuild my DTE differential after 2 years of hard use. Shortly after getting the new differential broken in, I blew a head gasket and had a TSP LS2 402 installed. Now it is meaner than ever. 
Race Director
Joined: Jul 2004
Posts: 16,795
Likes: 62
From: Lake Havasu City, AZ
Mods allow for personalization of your Vette...
At least that's what people tell me at our club shows...
My Vette is stock but personalized
It's not modified or customized class......
At least that's what people tell me at our club shows...
My Vette is stock but personalized
It's not modified or customized class......
Le Mans Master
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 7,275
Likes: 19
From: Camden County NJ
I got the bug so bad this year that I changed over from a H/C package to what you see in my sign. If I were to get another Vette I wouldn't do what I did with this one.......I want as little over head on my shoulders as possible, no more financial commitments.
