$150,000 c5
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Melting Slicks
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$150,000 c5
Anyone got an extra $150k to spend on a 04 C5? 1 of 3 but I think the price is really steep.
https://northamericanmotorcar.com/Li...tona-pace-car/
https://northamericanmotorcar.com/Li...tona-pace-car/
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interesting , but I agree with the original poster, that is a ton of extra money for a special light bar and decorations.
I don't collect cars, so this is just talk, but I don't think the car more than a curiosity, not notable enough to be in a carefully curated collection . I see the car more along the Hurst castle style of collecting, where expensive objects are collected more for show and ownership , rather than with care and taste.
I guess if you were goofy for number three in nascar, the thing is measurably more attractive , they sure pitched that connection hard, for what it is worth. In my limited experience digging car museums, a car worth collecting needs some mechanical, cosmetic, or historical interest to be strong enough to make the front line. I see the car as something easily replaced, interchangeably , by a tribute car, and nobody would kick much about the loss of true historical significance, since the history that drives the price is so short.
As we all know, you don't ask, you don't get. Negotiations have to start somewhere.
I don't collect cars, so this is just talk, but I don't think the car more than a curiosity, not notable enough to be in a carefully curated collection . I see the car more along the Hurst castle style of collecting, where expensive objects are collected more for show and ownership , rather than with care and taste.
I guess if you were goofy for number three in nascar, the thing is measurably more attractive , they sure pitched that connection hard, for what it is worth. In my limited experience digging car museums, a car worth collecting needs some mechanical, cosmetic, or historical interest to be strong enough to make the front line. I see the car as something easily replaced, interchangeably , by a tribute car, and nobody would kick much about the loss of true historical significance, since the history that drives the price is so short.
As we all know, you don't ask, you don't get. Negotiations have to start somewhere.
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The Revolutionary War battle at Trenton is historic…. This is just a C5 with a bunch of stickers that drove in a circle.
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It’s a cool piece of history, but not anything I’d be interested in.
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Anyone got an extra $150k to spend on a 04 C5? 1 of 3 but I think the price is really steep.
https://northamericanmotorcar.com/Li...tona-pace-car/
https://northamericanmotorcar.com/Li...tona-pace-car/
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So that particular car was actually used as a pace car in the Daytona 500 ?
That's pretty awesome and makes it worth far more than a typical pace car Corvette. But they might have to find a rich Nascar fan to pay that kind of money. Thta's not a car for the typical C5 buyer.
That's pretty awesome and makes it worth far more than a typical pace car Corvette. But they might have to find a rich Nascar fan to pay that kind of money. Thta's not a car for the typical C5 buyer.
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So that particular car was actually used as a pace car in the Daytona 500 ?
That's pretty awesome and makes it worth far more than a typical pace car Corvette. But they might have to find a rich Nascar fan to pay that kind of money. Thta's not a car for the typical C5 buyer.
That's pretty awesome and makes it worth far more than a typical pace car Corvette. But they might have to find a rich Nascar fan to pay that kind of money. Thta's not a car for the typical C5 buyer.
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Anyone got an extra $150k to spend on a 04 C5? 1 of 3 but I think the price is really steep.
https://northamericanmotorcar.com/Li...tona-pace-car/
https://northamericanmotorcar.com/Li...tona-pace-car/
I see $25,000, tops.