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Location: Mystic CT
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#22 |
![]() Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: Bartlett Illinois
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I have a good feeling that the new owner is going for the Triple Crown @ the MCACN show in the near future this low mileage ZR-1 will not be driven it will be a trailer Queen following the show circuit.
Actually redoing all the NCRS Cert.to the National level existing Certs.are out dated. Do the Bloomington Gold all the way to the Benchmark, car will not have a problem. Then follow up with the Triple Crown @ The MCACN show. Last but not least a visit to Barrett Jackson. It's just my 2 cents worth. |
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Location: Mullica Hill, New Jersey
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The huge advantage of 81 and newer, is the ability to confirm a car's authenticity with window sticker and more importantly build sheets, which are easy to obtain through the NCM. Older series Corvettes were not ALWAYS expensive. As more and more cars were restored and validated through judging, values of those cars began to rise. While occasionally one might find a low mile original C-1 through C-3, it was nowhere near the number of ZR-1's that still can be found in that condition. This has pushed down on the value escalation, but the low mile cars will thin out with time, and that barrier will soften. If even 10% of them remain ultra low mile, you are talking a pool of approx 700 cars as Survivors that are perfect. That is not and never will be a big number. When today's forty something crowd becomes the sixty something crowd, they will be drawn to these trailer queen beauties just as earlier generations of enthusiasts have been drawn to the earlier cars. Whatever. The over-arching theme is these cars have hit new highs at auctions in 2020. The red one at BJ in January, and now this one. No doubt owning one now will have cost less than they will cost as time continues to pass. ![]() Marty |
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Location: New Brunswick
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Location: Sunshine State
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And you wont find any either..... I looked for a year or so at ZR-1's and for 10 grand there were a couple and I mean maybe 2 that needed pretty much everything and were high miles... The sweet spot of these cars price wise, for a very nice driver like mine is between $15-20K.... Russ has a great one for $15k (the yellow car), FU has a nice one (blue one) Theres a real sweet red 90 on the forum for $21k, maybe negotable to $19-20.... I would say from what I see offered the nice 30-50k mile cars sit right around $16k-19k Anyway, a 10k mile car is going to need 3 grand worth of maintenance to be as good a driver as the 40k mile driver..... just my opinion and observations over the last 18 years of C4 & ZR-1 ownership...
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I’ve seen FUs car. Looks nice, but 90,000 miles spooks me a bit. Not even from a reliability perspective, but rather resale. I don’t know where the mileage line is that trashes resale value. 50,000? 100,000? Just so many low mileage ZR-1s out there, that it’s hard to want to go for a higher mileage one. |
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Location: Sunshine State
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As far as resale value... its all going to depend on maintenance and condition. This advice has been mentioned to you in other posts... so I wont go into it again. If you buy a 30k mile car for say $17k... in 2 years, Id say you could probably get the same $17k with a few more miles on it, but with some tasteful mods done like headers maybe or say rear gears.... The ZR-1 is one of the few cars Ive seen where modifications, if done nicely with quality parts , doesnt really hurt value for a driver quality car.
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Location: PA
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Are they out there? Yes. At one point a year or two ago I basically went out and found every ZR-1 for sale on the internet in an easy to find location. Facebook, craigslist, ebay, hemmings, etc. At any given time there are at least 100 ZR-1's for sale that can be easily tracked down. Coming on to a forum full of people who think these cars should be worth way more than they are isn't going to find you the best deal on a car. Not only that, if it's such a great deal, someone is going to buy it for themself. And unless you're paying a finders fee, I don't know why anyone is going to put a bunch of leg work into tracking a car down for someone else. |
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Location: New Brunswick
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Finders fee? That’s not something that I’d be against. |
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