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Love these adds saying original 1375 miles and the Corvette was totaly restored and trying to make people think it came that nice unrestored
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Re: 1375 mile 54 cheap
I wonder where it was kept for all those years? Three owners and less than 1400 miles is interesting. I'd like to know what was done to get it to look the way it does. I wish the seller was more forthcoming. For that kind of money you would think there would be more info available to substantiate the condition of the car. -
You mean it didn't??
They wouldn't lie would they? LOL
TerryComment
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Re: You mean it didn't??
I'm amazed at the guts some of these dealers have in trying to get the bucks for cars. Maybe somebody will pony up the 300K, for that, I'd just as soon buy a known correct car and have it professionally restored and know what I had... For that matter, I'd just keep my '55 driver and buy some income property...Comment
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I hear Ya *NM*
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Re: 1375 mile 54 cheap
The car actually has some history. I have no idea why the seller didn't post the history on the ebay page.
According to the Sports Car Market auction database, the car was purchased at auction for $269k in November 06. SCM did a brief write-up about the car:
"235-ci straight six, 3x1-bbl, auto. Paint, body, chrome, and glass perfect. Panel fit excellent. Wonderbar radio with operating instructions, original build tag under the bumper. The lowest-mileage '53-'55 Corvette known to exist, this car started life as a prize for the Long Grey Line's "Whoozzit's" contest. The owner drove it 300 miles, hated it, and gave it to his sister, who drove it 1000 miles, hated it, and put it in the back yard's garage to rot."
"Not sold at G. Potter King in NJ for $100,000 in February '03 (SCM# 30499), later sold at Christie's Monterey in August '05 for $193,875 (SCM# 38841). Having had only three documented owners, this restored example completely obliterated the market's $90,000 estimate at almost $270k. A top notch restoration by Bill Kuhn of His Place in MD, this baby was the new king of the hill. The seller more than recovered his investment, and the new owner has great bench racing stories. All the money and then some."
The 53-55 Corvette WebsiteComment
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I used to have
a news clipping about a 54 which had been bricked up in a garage decades ago. The owners of the house knew it was in there, but nobody knew what shape it was in. after removing the car, from the garage, the apparent answer was that storage was not kind to it.
Now for a deliberately buried car...
http://www.buriedcar.com/
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Re: I used to have
There's a 53 or 54 Corvette bricked up in an auto parts store basement here in Fairfield CT. Been there since about 81 or 82. I saw the car back then, and the only way in or out was the staircase from the parts aisles upstairs. Its a cinder block building which the back of the building is at ground level. Once the wall is knocked down, the car can be driven out. I haven't been there since about 85, but last I knew it is still in there. At least its a heated room with a cement floor.
GeorgeComment
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Re: 1375 mile 54 cheap
Restored radio?? haveing large chrome washers to fill the large holes that it must have had!
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