126 miles. Better hurry!

[Funracer]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1990-ZR1-6spd-w-126-miles-actual-miles-/330932893127?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item4d0d2335c7

[Bob Eyres]

I have mixed feelings when I see a car like this. So fresh, yet it's so old. Like a thoroughbred confined to it's stall for decades, never allowed to run.
Next to the 1978 Indy Pace Car Corvette, the ZR-1 has got to be the Corvette most collected as new, and left in untouched original condition.

Just once, I'd like to see someone step up with the extra bucks to buy this old jewel, freshen it up, and run it hard. Resale be damned.

Thumbs up to the seller though. Except for a few quibbles, that has to be one of the most comprehensive descriptions/history lessons ever seen for a used Corvette on EBay.

[BigJohn]

What would it say if you took it off trip?

:cheers:

[efnfast]

How come there are pictures of two different cars?????

[Blue Flame Restorations]

He's got promo pics from an 88-89 flat dash car along with the 90 pics.

[scottfab]

How come there are pictures of two different cars?????

more than two.

[GOLDCYLON]

more than two.


Was this not Polo-1s car at one time? And yeah way more than one.

[Hog]

A little over 30 minutes left.

peace
Hog

[Funracer]

I think the extra pics were to illustrate some of the finer points in the
long, long description of the ZR1's he provided for the unfamiliar.

That said, can't believe it only went to $22.8. I think a car like that
is a good investment now, especially if you have another one to flog
like I do:-D

[Schrade]

Not enough miles.

I was hesitant to buy a 14k car last year - preferred 30. Got one with 31,xxx .......

[Funracer]

Not enough miles.

I would not drive it much if at all with only 126 miles. That
thing is in NCRS Gold Spinner Bloomington Gold/Platinum/Survivor you name it award original first year condition.

Put a 1000 miles on it would seriously devalue this car. If you want a perfect
trailer queen, there it is.

[B17 Crew]

“New” ZR-1’s are popping up left & right, have been looking almost daily. Looked at this ’90, it is a virtual time capsule.

http://zr1netregistry.sudburycorvetteclub.net/Marketplace/ZR1sForSale/tabid/166/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1795/1990-BlackGray-99-mi--44900-OH.aspx

B17 Crew
:hello:

[Schrade]

I would not drive it much if at all with only 126 miles. That
thing is in NCRS Gold Spinner Bloomington Gold/Platinum/Survivor you name it award original first year condition.

Put a 1000 miles on it would seriously devalue this car. If you want a perfect
trailer queen, there it is.

Agree wholeheartedly...

It would NOT make a driver, without serious fluid-systems overhaul, as another posted:
Just once, I'd like to see someone step up with the extra bucks to buy this old jewel, freshen it up, and run it hard. Resale be damned.

Someone on CF boards got a divorce car (89 convertible? 2,200 miles, IIRC), that had been sitting in a condo garage, for 20 years. I think he got it for a song, and had to $ing 2 $ongs equivalent to get it roadworthy...

[Funracer]

In late nineties my family drove to the Bloomington Gold show
which I think was by then being held on the golf course outside
Chicago. One day my daughter and I walked over to watch the auction.
A few minutes later the nastiest sounding Vette I have ever heard
drove on to the stage.

If memory serves it was a 1967 L-88 with 32 miles on it. The bidding
started at $150,000 and I knew then it was going to be fun to watch.
It sold for well over $600,000, around $640,000 if I remember right.
It was a new record for Corvettes at the time. Interestingly, L88s still
go for about the same amount, $500-600,000.

So thats my retirement plan now. Buy a few ZR1's with very low miles
and sell them for $600,000 each when I retire. I'm on the lookout.

;)

[Mystic ZR-1]

With current ZR-1 values (severly under-valued), I hope your not planning on retiring any time soon...
Remember: L88s only have one cam and you could get a Big Block in a school bus but not an LT5...

[Funracer]

With current ZR-1 values (severly under-valued), I hope your not planning on retiring any time soon...

Haha, no I have a few years to go. Don't trust the stock market anymore
so have to park the money somewhere. I don't see Z's going any lower.

[efnfast]

Park your money under your matress. Other than that, you're only making money for someone else.

[Polo-1]

Was this not Polo-1s car at one time? And yeah way more than one.

No, mine was worn out 179 miles. That one said 125 miles still fresh:p

Mine was #605 went to Japan.

[Blownrunner]

It is nice knowing some people will buy and store a car, then sell it 20 plus years later for 30% of what they bought it for. I will drive mine and when it wears out I will just buy another one...

[Funracer]

It is nice knowing some people will buy and store a car, then sell it 20 plus years later for 30% of what they bought it for.

Or in my case 50% less. Paid $31K in 1993 and barely worth $15 now.

But I have also seen '67 big blocks go from the teens in early '80s
to six figures by the late '90s. Not sure the Z will do the same but
you never know.

If I had bought '67 big blocks instead of tech stocks, I'd still have a lot more of my money today.

BTW there were 9687 1967 BBs made and they are worth a bunch. For
comparison there are only 7000 ish ZR1s.

[Bob Eyres]

BTW there were 9687 1967 BBs made and they are worth a bunch. For
comparison there are only 7000 ish ZR1s.[/QUOTE]


Yeah, but the vast majority of those 67's were driven, and driven hard. There were specious few that got the "garage queen" treatment that so many ZR-1's enjoyed.
That's why today an unmolested original big block is very rare...ZR-1's? not so much.

[BigJohn]

When our ZR-1s are forty plus years old then you will see a collector value like the 67's.

[SteelBlueZR1]

So, to raise the value of our ZR-1's we need to drive our ZR-1's hard in large quantities... or put them in cryogenic storage for another 17 years. I think I would rather drive my Z hard and often=D>

[BigJohn]

So, to raise the value of our ZR-1's we need to drive our ZR-1's hard in large quantities... or put them in cryogenic storage for another 17 years. I think I would rather drive my Z hard and often=D>

Yes, I would prefer enjoying it.

Saving it for the great grandchildren does not appeal to me.

[Mystic ZR-1]

and that was with only 9687 cams...

Big John, what grandchildren?

[BigJohn]

and that was with only 9687 cams...

Big John, what grandchildren?

Given time maybe; just maybe it is still posible!!!

:cheers:

[nelson007]

I think you are correct FUNRACER,

I have sold a lot of my C1s and C2s about 8-9 years ago when the market was strong and just kept the rare ones and got top $ for most of the ones that I sold. But in the last 18 months I have bought 7 Corvettes all C3 BB's an and a 70 LT1-ZR1 option. I also bought a 93 and 95 ZR1. And did not pay over $40k for any of them. And I am still looking for good deals for original cars. I definitely think now is the time to buy some of the classics.

Nelson 007