If you’re a parent, you’ve no doubt spent many a Christmas Eve night putting together many of those “Some Assembly Required” toys for your kids.
Well, here’s possibly the biggest toy you’ll ever assemble, a 1958 Corvette convertible that comes with an impressive array of parts waiting to be placed on the car.
Those parts are all laid out on the floor for a photo that accompanies an eBay listing out of Saugatuck, Michigan for this vintage C1, with the “Buy It Now” price of $49,500.
The seller says the project actually began nearly 40 years ago but as you can see was never completed.
Some of the newly chromed bumper parts even remain wrapped in newspapers dated from the mid-1980s.
A new owner would find “nearly all the chrome and trim” for this Corvette, “along with a host of other OEM parts,” the seller boasts. Also included is a “very nice” set of rally wheels and new staggered-size tires, and while he says there are “far too many parts to list,” you can get a peek at many of them in the photos and video that accompany the listing.
While the engine in the car right now was cast as a ’63-’64 327 block, the seller found another block sitting right next to it that is reportedly a ’58 283 block that appears to be bored .040in over, said to be honed and decked and ready to go. “So far as we can tell, we have the original block with the car,” he says. While Chevy didn’t keep production records before the early ‘60s and didn’t link VINs and engine numbers together, the “3737739” number on the extra block does correspond to a ’58.
“The car fires and is drivable,” the seller says, “although we did not try to draw fuel from the fuel cell. The fuel cell appears to be in great shape, we even have a nice spare to go with it.”
The body, meanwhile, looks good in the photos, with some work already done, including an apparent replacement of the left rear quarter panel and an incorrect hood added at some point. A new paint job still would be an expensive undertaking.
The frame “looks straight and solid, so we believe any damage was cosmetic,” the seller notes. “The repair looks good on the outside, and the car looks nice and straight front to back.”
While these cars can bring $90,000 or more, Barn Finds readers believe it might be hard to stay under that number by the time all the work is done. But as one of them wrote, “if you love these, then making money is not the objective.”
Source:
eBay Motors via barnfinds.com
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