They're only wheels...... hopefully seller still has OEM's?Nice looking car but not very original... (click on the pic)
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...and those wheels have to go!
Agree with that 100% - and will certainly limit an already limited market car even further.......except perhaps to that odd person who prefers a modded car.Depending on the modifications done putting it back to “original” can turn out to be a financial nightmare. Bodywork can cost a fortune. Interior if altered again for a corvette lots of money. Then there’s the motor.
As for value? It’s all about what someone is prepared to pay for it, but the “market” is probably a lot smaller than a “standard “car. IMO.
So without the original engine, etc, you'd just be spending time collecting OEM parts so that one day you could maybe return it to something resembling 'stock'?Agree with that 100% - and will certainly limit an already limited market car even further.......except perhaps to that odd person who prefers a modded car.
And yes, I have modified my '68 - but no bodywork changes - very few changes in fact - just wheels (which can be swapped back for originals) hi-rise hood is now an L88 repro item (but still have the original LT1/BB hood) - engine is 'built' stroker big block (but still have the matching numbers 427 stored away).
Justificantion? - even though it was a matching numbers car it could never be described as concours - that would have been sacrilege!
If an early C3 was to significantly excalate in value (which they seem to be heading in that direction) there is no reason why mine couldn't be returned to stock configuration and matching no's very easily.
No, although they've kept the original mirrors and some of the interior mouldings.Motors in corvettes have been swapped out for years. The old 283ci on C1’s were regularly junked for 350’s. Used engines were cheap as chips. The mid years feared a bit better, but many 327ci were junked in the 1970’s. Exception being the BB motors.
Did said owners keep the original motor? Most didn’t. They just left them at the shop that carried out the swap.
It just wasn’t a big deal to swap out a motor back in the day.
So it's probably worth finding the extra £20k and waiting for a numbers matching example?Unless you can be convinced that the car has its original engine a other parts available you'll have a job sourcing them. In 'the day' when Vettes ('certainly' in the USA) were effectively just another car with relatively low value many would have been robbed for their engines and later lopo emission engine would replace it. Whilst its possible to replace the engine and other parts with correct period dated components......they are still not the originals......and it will make a difference to value. Most people would actually know the difference and many have unwittingly paid top money for car with incorrect components...........
Lovely cars, but a Nassau blue C2 with knock off wheels is where my heart is... One day it'll happen!Why not a nice C3 - for your C2 money............
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Can't say a thing against that!Lovely cars, but a Nassau blue C2 with knock off wheels is where my heart is... One day it'll happen!