Jun
14
The second owner bought this ‘Vette in 1963 and kept it for 50 years. We don’t know how long it has been sitting, but the seller says it has escaped the ravages of a musty smell. It is all original save for a factory-supplied warranty engine block replaced back in 1963. Read More
Jun
4
Frankly, we don’t get why people offer cars that have a few little needs. If they are small and easy to fix, why not take care of them before you put it on the market. We hate seeing “everything works but” kind of ads. Sometimes that is a big turn off and we move on. But we linger over others because the rest of the car sounds right. That’s how we feel about this C3 Corvette. Let’s be upfront here. These C3s are pretty neat to look at. The styling is pure Bill Mitchell and his Mako Shark II show car. It is surprising that the production car maintained many of the design themes of the show car and maintained Mitchell’s marching orders to deliver a car that looks like it is going fast standing still. And that takes us to the Daytona Yellow Corvette featured here today. Read More
Apr
5
Let’s just cut to the story. You all know the origin of the Corvette Stingray and we celebrate the return of the fabled nameplate this year with the introduction of the C7. So this is how it goes…You are walking through Cable Airport and you see some guy standing around and you ask him, “any old Corvettes parked around here that haven’t seen the light of day in 25 years?” He answers, “sure, right this way.” Okay, so that isn’t quite the way it happened but the results are the same. Read More
Mar
22
Probably the single most important trend in automobile collecting is the barn find. Opinions vary on whether or not it will continue at this pace. But some very well known collectors have embraced the trend. We support it when it makes sense. Lets be clear – we support leaving a barn find as original as possible and making it fully operational again. If it can’t be restored and it is not a seriously important car, we would part it out so others may live. Read More
Mar
20
The Corvette C3 was patterned after the Larry Shinoda’s Mako Shark Concept Car. It was a mid-engine design that excited everyone who saw it. But concept cars are supposed to be pre-cursors of the future. In this case it was, but the mid-engine was ditched in favor of the existing Sting Ray’s layout. Shinoda’s car was sent to Chevrolet Styling, where Harry Haga’s studio adopted it for production. 
The C3 also adopted the “sugar scoop” roof treatment with vertical back window from a Duntov design. The C3 was accidentally introduced to the motoring public not at some big hoopla reveal at the Detroit Motor Show like this year’s new Sting Ray. Mattel’s Hot Wheels was given permission to release an authorized model of the C3 called the Custom Corvette. Seems they didn’t get the memo on the release date. Read More
Jan
30
The ground-breaking (and pounding) C-2 Corvette changed the American sports car landscape.
They wrote songs about this. But they wrote songs about Peggy Sue back then so why is that important? It is rare for a Corvette to survive in unrestored condition – even more rare for a silver (12.5%), with red leather (.9%), off-road exhaust (8%) and Fuel-Injection (6%). 
So out of 1,325 Fuelies built in ’64 (including Coupes) how many had this combination and are all original? Read More
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