Corvettes on eBay: 1958 Corvette Barn Find May Have Originally Been a Fuelie

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Corvettes on eBay: 1958 Corvette Barn Find May have Originally Been a Fuelie


Here’s a really cool early Corvette with plenty of potential being featured by our friends over at BarnFinds.com. They spotted this blue 1958 Corvette wearing “Fuel Injection” badges for sale on eBay that according to the seller was recently rescued from a barn after a 20-year slumber.

And while that barn-find picture showing a bunch of debris surrounding the quad-headlight Corvette is enough to give any restorer pause, once the Corvette was out in the sunshine, it cleaned up rather nicely.

The seller tells us he doesn’t know much about Corvettes, but says the owner drove the car into the barn when it was parked, so the car should be able to run with some work. He can tell us that the engine and convertible top are not original to the car and it appears that a bunch of smaller items like some of the gauges and headlight bezels are from years other than a 1958. However, it does have the original hard top.

Corvettes on eBay: 1958 Corvette Barn Find May have Originally Been a Fuelie


The 1958 Corvettes were known for their chrome and you could spend a small fortune rechroming those pieces. It looks like the chrome ‘spears’ on the trunk are missing and those alone could cost quite a bit to replace. (We found several listings for original 1958 chrome trunk spears on eBay which range from $2,350-$3,700 just to give you an idea on the replacement price.)

Corvettes on eBay: 1958 Corvette Barn Find May have Originally Been a Fuelie Corvettes on eBay: 1958 Corvette Barn Find May have Originally Been a Fuelie Corvettes on eBay: 1958 Corvette Barn Find May have Originally Been a Fuelie
Corvettes on eBay: 1958 Corvette Barn Find May have Originally Been a Fuelie Corvettes on eBay: 1958 Corvette Barn Find May have Originally Been a Fuelie Corvettes on eBay: 1958 Corvette Barn Find May have Originally Been a Fuelie
Corvettes on eBay: 1958 Corvette Barn Find May have Originally Been a Fuelie Corvettes on eBay: 1958 Corvette Barn Find May have Originally Been a Fuelie Corvettes on eBay: 1958 Corvette Barn Find May have Originally Been a Fuelie

The auction for 1958 Corvette ends on Wednesday at 12:12 PM ET and the current bid of $34,000 has yet to unlock the reserve price. This does look like a nice nearly-complete Corvette that could be driven until the time came for a frame-off period correct restoration or a restomod since its original fuelie engine is no longer with the car.


Source:
ebay via BarnFinds.com

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