Volo Auto Museum in Illinois has been around since the 1960s and today they are one of the largest privately-owned classic car dealers in the world, selling over 1,000 vehicles per year. This week, one of the founder’s personal collection of 1963-1967 Corvettes were officially offered for sale.
Volo Auto Museum co-founder Greg Grams has been buying and selling classic C2 Corvettes for 50 years, and his passion has been for the midyear sport coupes with air conditioning.
“I remember the thrill of driving those ‘Vettes and beating them up in the summer with the windows cracked because there was no A/C. It was fun until you came to a stop sign, and the breeze stopped,” Greg Grams said in the press release. “Back then, you could buy one new for around $4,000, and air conditioning was a $500 add-on option, so only a handful of people spent that kind of money to upgrade to factory A/C, power steering and windows.”
The Corvettes being offered for sale range from the highly collectible 1963 Split Window Coupes to the big dog 1967 Corvettes with the 427 V8. Each of these hand-picked Corvettes has been inspected, decoded, and documented. The value of these Corvettes ranges from $80,000 to $250,000.
Greg’s son Jay is the Volo Museum auto sales director, and he remembers back in the day how his dad started selling Corvettes:
“My dad was selling these Corvettes in the early 1970s as used cars, typically in the $3,000 range,” Volo Museum auto sales director Jay Grams said in a press release. “I used to ride in the back at 3 and 4 years old with no car seat, seat belt, or actual seat!”
Greg was asked how he would feel if the entire collection wasn’t sold, and his response was typical of those held by car guys who know what they have. “I’m not too worried about that, but if they don’t, I get to enjoy them a little longer, and they will be worth even more the next time I put them up for sale.”
You can see the collection of C2s listed at VoloCars.com. Check out the preview video below:
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In early 1966, I bought a ’65 coupe, equipped with AC, AM/FM Stereo, Power Brakes, Power Steering, Power Windows, which was powered by a 327 CID, 350 HP V8. Transmission was a close-ratio four-speed.
Having two young children, I built two seats of 3/4″ plywood mounted to a frame fabricated of 1″ square tubing which I affixed directly to the rear cross-member through the cargo-area floor pan. I also anchored the seat belts–and shoulder harnesses–to the same cross-member. Upholstery was designed for go-karts so they even had side-bolsters! The kids loved it and my wife was happy too, as all four of us could go for long rides in the Corvette.
The addition of the rear seats made a very rare car into a one-of-a-kind four-seater! Talk about rare!!!!!
I sold that car in 1967 for $2,200.00, (high-buck for that car in those days!), to finance the purchase of a 1968 Corvette Convertible, powered by an L71/L89. I spent most weekends chasing and repairing rattles in that car. I quickly realized that I’d made the wrong decision by trading up to the ’68. Sure, it was a frickin’ rocket but repairing rattles every weekend was a real PITA!
Fast forward to 2018, 50 years later, I bought a C7 3LZ Z06/Z07 Coupe. Obviously no young kids now so it’s just my wife and I, hence no need for rear seats!
Montana Bob
I grew up near the Volo Antique Auto Museum and worked there for a summer while in HS. I don’t know if things changed, but back then there were very dishonest and misrepresented a lot of their cars, mainly by rolling back the odometers.
If you follow Patrick Glen Nichols on Youtube, then you know he is THE expert on Chevelles…the guy is a walking encylopedia. About a year ago he posted a video of a 1970 Chevelle SS LS6 454 that he was commissioned to authentic at the Volo store…he determined it was a fake and let the buyer know, thus saving the buyer a boat load of cash. He also let the folks at Volo know it was a fake, but they refused to change their add online and continued to post it as a “numbers matching 1970 LS6 454 Chevelle” even after he proved it was a clone.
So if you plan to bid on any of his personal cars in this C2 collection, bring someone who knows what to look for…these folks are very dishonest.
Plus one to what Kyle said above.
I have a classic car that I brought to one of their car shows, which draws in a lot of potential customers. They still had the nerve to make you pay to enter their “museum” of cars for sale on consignment.
They had a Z28 for sale at a pretty price. I looked at their video and pictures on their website and could clearly see rust on the inside of the door skins.
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