Who has the most interesting Z car history

[SDZR-1]

Originally Posted by djpatrick35

Jeff, YOU'RE young??!?! I graduated from high school in 2000!

Hey, youre not the only one....I also graduated in 2000.

[-=Jeff=-]

Originally Posted by Tyler Townsley

I already have his kids hooked on real(C1s) vetts, like a certain 57 I know of.

Tyler

is it the Red one with the silver coves? My kids loved gettign to sit in it at Bloomington.. See you this year again at Bloomington?

[Tyler Townsley]

Originally Posted by -=Jeff=-

is it the Red one with the silver coves? My kids loved gettign to sit in it at Bloomington.. See you this year again at Bloomington?

Yeah, belongs to Bill Herron. I Will be there among all those L-88s(tough job but somebody has to do it). It will be across the street this year.

Tyler

[-=Jeff=-]

Really? is the Ball Room it was in goign to be used for anything?

[flyin ryan]

not me , for owning three Zee's my search/buy stories are pretty lame compared to some of the good ones on here. thanks for posting , good reading. i always say anything worth having in life is not easy to get. your guys' stories are proof of that.

[RedSled]

I have a fairly standard story about mine and the previous four owners. I just thought it was interesting that four people could own a car and drive it so little. It only had 21,000 miles registered when I purchased it a couple years ago. The car was originally bought from Bruce Glueck Chevrolet in Jasper, Florida by a wealthy business owner in Ohio. He drove it a little and decided to park it as an investment. He died shortly thereafter (some weird karma there I guess) and the car passed to his son in Tennessee. Son kept it and drove it a little and sold it to another guy in Ohio. After a number of years of little activitiy he sold it to the guy I bought it from, also in Ohio. I found the car here on the Registry (thank you very much!) I was so excited to purchase the car, meeting a nice owner who I've stayed in touch with, and I'll never forget the great drive home from Ohio to Maryland. Best purchase I've ever made. Not only for the great car I own, but for all the super Corvette people I've met via this forum and the local club I belong to. I guess I shouldn't talk much about mileage though, I've only put 4,000 miles on the Sled since 2006. It's a start.

- Keith '90 Red/Red #1383

[flyin ryan]

Originally Posted by RedSled90

I guess I shouldn't talk much about mileage though, I've only put 4,000 miles on the Sled since 2006. It's a start.

- Keith '90 Red/Red #1383

i haven't put 400 miles total on all of my Zee's combined since i bought the first one in July 06. between what seems like seven months of winter & building my garage addition last year . it's a situation that has to change.

1990 #220 was bought by a doctor in Fairfax VA. He paid 85k for the car and picked it up in October of 89. He paid a 25k deposit (markup over sticker) and then paid the other 60K when he picked the car up. He drove the car maybe 2,000 miles in the first 8 years of ownership and then racked up an additional 12k the final two years before I got it.

[tf95ZR1]

1995 #106
I had my first corvette in the mid 90's and was looking for a ZR1.
In 1999 I happened to see an ad in the paper for a used '95- at a dealership!
Went to see the car and was told it was driven by the dealership owner's son
who got too many tickets. The snot nosed kid salesman who took me
for a test drive knew zero about the car including the valet switch. He told
me "that was it" but I knew better. I think I got a good deal for the car (including trading in my beautiful corvette convertible though ) .
With the help of the ZR1 net I got a service history of my car and found out that the entire engine had been replaced @ about 25,000 miles! I found out
that this was not uncommon- it was sometimes cheaper for GM to replace the motor than try and fix it. So my engine has about 25K less miles on it than the odometer reading.

[tccrab]

Originally Posted by tf95ZR1

1995 #106
With the help of the ZR1 net I got a service history of my car and found out that the entire engine had been replaced @ about 25,000 miles! I found out
that this was not uncommon-

Actually this was the case for a while after the ZR1 was first released. GM wouldn't allow stealership mechanics to open up the LT5 at all. If there was a problem, the engine was R&R'd and shipped back to Mercury Marine and a new engine was installed.
Threre's a chapter in the the Heart of the Beast which details why/where/but not how many were done.

T