MikeM

This isn't a plug for Pro Team but if they haven't messed with it since they got it, it's super nice, original. I believe the miles are accurate as well.

https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds...e/2242396.html

Dan Hampton

Definitely the rarest "one off" 340 hp FI car that the Factory ever produced. Hemmings needs someone to number check their ads.

SupremeDeluxe

Love the car, have been admiring it on their website for a couple months. Do not like the price, but (historically) ProTeam will hold a car as long as it takes to get the number they want. The body lines look to be as good as it gets.

fake

Drive a new one and tell me which one you like best. This ride is for a collector only.

tuxnharley

31 pics, and yet nothing showing the stamp pad nor anything of the under carriage?

$149k NOM......must be that extra piece of fiberglass!

GUSTO14

Actually it was 'originally' a 340hp car that the second owner upgraded with a fuel injection system when he replaced the failed engine. I missed that the first time I read it too.

Purchased by second owner in the mid 1970's who drove it to Indiana from California. The original motor failed on this trip. Car currently is running a Chevrolet service short block from 1975 at which time he upgraded the carburation with a period correct complete 1963 fuel injection system.

GUSTO

Frankie the Fink

Nice, driver quality, NOM split window - even has the sloppy, factory yellow glue around the weatherstripping..

Realistic price $75K-$85K... Maybe $95K if alcohol is involved..

And that's assuming there are no birdcage/frame surprises...

Tonio

"Unmolested", "unrestored", "rarest of rare" .....currently has a 1975 engine in it.......uhhhhh, ok.

Frankie the Fink

Which makes it "one of one" - you have to get into the whole spirit of sales hype my friend!

LouieM

At least in this case ProTeam admits that parts have been changed .....

MikeM

The car is actually a time capsule. The first ten years of it's life it spent in California so you can guess about birdcage rust or frame rust. The last 45 years, the car has sat, undriven, in a garage covered with a sheet.

The Pro Team ad is pretty accurate but I know the block didn't have numbers stamped on it when the car got to Indiana. I believe the short block was changed in southern Illinois where the original (340) short block got a hole punched in a cylinder. The original short block has been laying in a barn all this time.

This car is nice enough, it'd make you throw stones at your high dollar restored SWC.

There's another member here who I think was driving the car when the engine went. If not, he knows about it and/or had the engine changed.

My buddy was the second (titled) owner. He was offered $100K for the car ten years ago. I don't know what he sold it for. Doesn't matter. It's a dandy.

vettebuyer6369

Super pretty car. Quite a price tag. Hope he gets every dime. It’s a tiny bit curious that they don’t swap in a used original ‘63 master cylinder. That ‘64 is so obvious with the car looking so original otherwise.

vettebuyer6369

I like this best all day every day.

Ill drive my Challenger if I want to drive another new car.

MikeM

Last time I saw it, the '63 cylinder was still in place.

bb62

If this were an original 360HP SWC, the price would definitely worth it, but it's not. It's basically a 340HP SWC that needs some engine restoration accompanied by a Rochester fuel injection system. What does each cost individually? Does it add up to $149K? The car is likely not an original paint car because that would clearly be advertised so it can't be a Survivor. Would I be off base to suggest that the total package is worth about $90K. $80K for the 340HP coupe that needs engine restoration plus $10K for the FE system.

BADBIRDCAGE

In my opinion Yes, you would be off base. There are 63 coupes on this forum people value at close to or more than $80K that have been wrecked and repaired as well as modified from stock and no one bats an eye. Complete turd bodies going for over $25K simply to be used for restomod builds. Why then would a running, driving, mostly original no hit 63 coupe with the accompanying original engine block be worth only $90K?

I could care less what anyone believes his/her car should be valued at and I have no desire to ever own another 63 coupe. But to sit back and observe the comments is entertaining.

As I said, it’s just my opinion.

Frankie the Fink

As I said - its a nice car; I'd be proud to own it, but its not a $149K car....we all know the deal...

Somebody will offer up $85K; Pro-Team will come back with a counter at $120K; the counter-counter from the interested party will be - maybe $90K. Maybe one more round of negotiations -- and the car will sell... That's just the used car biz...

Compare this to the split window SupremeDeluxe recently sold for $145K (IIRC) on BAT.....pristine un-hit body and all the correct parts and non-fuelie but original engine....

BADBIRDCAGE

Somebody will offer up $85K. Pro Team will not counter at all. They will tell the prospective buyer to find more money and come back with what they would consider a serious offer.

I have not seen ANY Corvette that I would pay $149K for, including the new 2019 ZR1 I looked at last fall. I worked too hard for my money to urinate it away on a car.

dplotkin

Amen. I got into hot water on Bring a Trailer over this very subject, some erudite sports car dude suggesting that a Jensen Interceptor needed an engine and transmission upgrade, lower RPM, shorter first gear, on and on. I wrote that the only reason to own an Interceptor was its 440 & 727. The rest of it is just another English sports car, if that. I don't object to modifications but jeez if you want modern contrivances drive a modern car and leave us alone. No sense of humor over there, sanctimonious girly men.

Dan

GTOguy

Drive a new what? '63 Sting Ray? They haven't made those for quite some time.
As for driving a new Corvette, as in C-7, no thank you. I prefer my truck-like, archaic 1961 model, which makes a '63 seem Buck Rogers modern. Not everybody wants a new car or a new car ride. I have zero, and I mean zero--- desire for a new Corvette.