Added a Vette to the family
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Added a Vette to the family So a couple weeks ago I was given the opportunity to buy an extremely clean, low mile '84 Corvette for a price that couldn't be said no to. My dad happened to be in the market for another vette so I called him up and we made it happen. While its no LSx, I figured it was worth sharing.
It's two tone silver/gray with red leather. Crossfire injection 350 (yes, I know....) and the seemingly rare 4+3 manual transmission. All the electronics are in good working order. The best part, only 35k original miles on it. I have to say the car has given me a greater appreciation for the C4. I never realized how big of a deal this car was back in '83-84 until I started reading all the old sales material and reviews. It really was cutting edge for its time.
A couple quick pics:
It's two tone silver/gray with red leather. Crossfire injection 350 (yes, I know....) and the seemingly rare 4+3 manual transmission. All the electronics are in good working order. The best part, only 35k original miles on it. I have to say the car has given me a greater appreciation for the C4. I never realized how big of a deal this car was back in '83-84 until I started reading all the old sales material and reviews. It really was cutting edge for its time.
A couple quick pics:
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Congrats on the buy! My dad wanted a vette for as long as he could remember, but eventually he kind of accepted he probably wouldn't get one. Two years ago we stopped at the vette museum in Bowling Green on the way home from Kentucky and he got the Corvette bug again. About a month later he bought an 88 Z52 in blue. Never really cared for C4s until he got one, every time we take it out I find myself staring at it through the windows of wherever we're at haha
NCRS or bust!
Beautiful example, the car seems to retain most original parts from the photo's
The CFI is not that big of an issue...lots of experienced folks across the nation to help with trouble concerns if they ever pop up.
Beautiful example, the car seems to retain most original parts from the photo's
The CFI is not that big of an issue...lots of experienced folks across the nation to help with trouble concerns if they ever pop up.
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The Steampunk Corvette. It's ahead of it's time even by today's standards - but using older technology.
The configurable dash displays, torque curve tachometer, hidden headlights that flip over to smoothly fared in units rather than popping up like air brakes, directional cooling for the brakes in the wheels...
I remember when the C4 first came out. It really was ahead of it's time. Newer vettes may be better cars, but the C4 was more "special" in how the design was done, the small features, etc. And it was a cutting edge performer by the day's standards.
I'll always have a love of the C4 because it was the generation that was more than just a car. Being a good sports car was only part of the goal - it had to be special in ways no other cars of it's day were. It achieved that at a time when the V8 "muscle cars" of the day couldn't even break 200HP.
The configurable dash displays, torque curve tachometer, hidden headlights that flip over to smoothly fared in units rather than popping up like air brakes, directional cooling for the brakes in the wheels...
I remember when the C4 first came out. It really was ahead of it's time. Newer vettes may be better cars, but the C4 was more "special" in how the design was done, the small features, etc. And it was a cutting edge performer by the day's standards.
I'll always have a love of the C4 because it was the generation that was more than just a car. Being a good sports car was only part of the goal - it had to be special in ways no other cars of it's day were. It achieved that at a time when the V8 "muscle cars" of the day couldn't even break 200HP.
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