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So I just bought a New Carbon 65 with serial number #00002. So I should just drive it. It's a GS. Was going to buy a z06.but saw this and bought it. Or should I buy a z06 to drive and keep this 1.
What you should do... is exactly what YOU feel best about. If you are looking for investments there are far better than these cars, many of which (those others) are far more at home just setting. All the best!
Agreed. Low VIN may be a little unique and help with a sale to the right person, but it ain't going to make it valuable. Enjoy it. Especially if you can afford to store it and go buy a Z06! You'd make more money taking that Z06 money and not spending it on another car.
It's cool you got that number. Maybe a collector would find that more valuable to their collection but to me #800 would be better due to learning curve..
Call Jay Leno offer it up to him.. If he doesn't have #1 already..lol
Thanks for any input.I was a meme here before but email changed so did a relaunch. I've had a few Vetted in my life. But never 1 that was sold as a factory SE. That's why I asked the questions.
OP you want a collector car to purchase from new the later ACR Vipers are a decent choice to pickup and not drive but still market could change any month...
Any Corvette of today can be driven or parked and probably be within 10% of resale. these cars are not investments, those days are over.. even the big money cars from back in the day compared to investing in anything worth a dam via stock market you are at net zero.
unless you spend millions.. they lose, they don't gain (factoring in inflation).
cool for car shows "Vin#002" but other than that? nope. Vin #99999999 owned by a movie or popstar would carry more value with 10x the mileage lol.. I have a 1 of 8 produced car for all time in this gen MEANS NOTHING to buyer's but something to me.. and those of us that like the rarity, uniqueness, numbers game.
I bet anything with a visible VIN sequence number under 10 would be interesting.. like XXXXXXXX000005 for example. But 128 or 250 into a special edition run, that sort of thing? I don't imagine.
Can't hurt, of course, and is a conversation starter either way I suppose!
It's cool you got that number. Maybe a collector would find that more valuable to their collection but to me #800 would be better due to learning curve..
Call Jay Leno offer it up to him.. If he doesn't have #1 already..lol
And you can still get it, of course the sequence has to be available. There is at least one person on the forum here that has/had multiple vetted with the same last few digits.
OP, You might want to go to the C5 forum and ask the guys who bought the 50th anniversary special edition. It's one of the most beautiful Corvettes ever produced. It cost a cool extra $5K to have that package added when new.
Today, those cars with very low mileage, less than 10K on the clock are trying to get 50 cents on the dollar, even less when you allow for inflation. Cars with almost no additional mileage can't get their investment back. A low mileage example recently sold in the Raleigh area for $18,500.
All this for one of the most beautiful special editions Corvette ever produced. There are just too many special edition Corvettes to make them worthy of an investment. In my opinion, if you want to enjoy the car, show it off. Go to car shows, drive it to special events, take it to Cars N' Coffee. At least this way, you won't regret it when it depreciates.
I searched out and purchased the 2014 Premiere Edition convertible because I wanted the Lime Rock Green color and all the options it included. It's an extremely low-mileage car and will likely remain so, but whether it's worth any more or less than any other 2014 C7 convertible in the future, it's exactly what I wanted. And that's all that matters.
OP, You might want to go to the C5 forum and ask the guys who bought the 50th anniversary special edition. It's one of the most beautiful Corvettes ever produced. It cost a cool extra $5K to have that package added when new.
Today, those cars with very low mileage, less than 10K on the clock are trying to get 50 cents on the dollar, even less when you allow for inflation. Cars with almost no additional mileage can't get their investment back. A low mileage example recently sold in the Raleigh area for $18,500.
All this for one of the most beautiful special editions Corvette ever produced. There are just too many special edition Corvettes to make them worthy of an investment. In my opinion, if you want to enjoy the car, show it off. Go to car shows, drive it to special events, take it to Cars N' Coffee. At least this way, you won't regret it when it depreciates.
My question is what is the average resale price of one of those 50th anniversary Corvette's compared to on that is similarly optioned by not a 50th anniversary.
I'm guessing there isn't much of a price difference....
I'm not thinking many people feel any car is an investment these days, but more people may thing that a special edition would be worth slightly more than an equally equipped car that wasn't a special edition and I think that is a fantasy that could be broken....
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1982 Collector Editions with full options and low mileage are just now selling for what they were new or just slightly above. I guess if you want to look at it in your garage for 30 plus years just to get back what you paid for it you can. I wouldn't.
