[VIDEO] The Last 2019 Corvette ZR1 Built Sells for a Record $410,000 at Mecum Dallas

Oct 29, 2024

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[VIDEO] The Last 2019 Corvette ZR1 Built Sells for a Record $410,000 at Mecum Dallas

Somehow, Thursday is Halloween, which makes Friday the start of November! We aren’t sure how we allowed this unbelievable auction result to get backburner’d for so long – and we beg your forgiveness for that, Corvette Nation – but it doesn’t look like anyone else covered it either, so as we always say, better late than never!

Back on the extended weekend of September 4-7, Mecum Auctions brought 1,500 collector vehicles to the Lone Star State for its annual Dallas sale. As we covered before the first car crossed the block, Mecum Dallas was packed to the gills with 143 Corvettes. It featured examples from every generation of America’s Sports Car, and when the dust settled, ‘Vettes made up 3 of the top-ten sales, including one major surprise at the very top of the list!

The Triple Diamond 1963 Split Window Fuelie that everyone pegged as the auction’s likely highwater mark for Corvettes left a pre-War V12 Cadillac, a Wimbledon White Boss 429, and a Ferrari 430 Scuderia in its wake, but its impressive $302,500 out-the-door price was a distant silver medalist for the Crossed Flags in the “Big D.”

Shockingly, first place went to a C7! Obviously, it wasn’t any “run-of-the-mill” Seventh-Generation Corvette; it could only be one of the 2,953 ZR1s that not only set new Corvette records for power and speed but sent the front-engine and manual transmission legacies of the Corvette into the sunset in flame-throwing style. Even in this already exclusive and desirable context, Lot S218 brought a few extra helpings of “special” to the block. It is one of 311 Arctic White Coupes and one of just 22 of with the Adrenaline Red/Black suede interior. It’s also a member of the more exclusive (one of 876, just 30% of production) non-ZTK “top speed” club and, crucially, is one of 744 coupes to showcase the now-extinct third pedal of the 7-speed manual gearbox.

As spectacular as this 212 MPH build is, VIN 2895’s most significant attribute is its status as the final ZR1 ever pieced together in Bowling Green (if you are curious about why its VIN isn’t 2953 to match the official production number, it’s because that tally includes Captured Test Fleet (CTF) cars and various other surviving pre-production examples with out of the norm plates). Combine this prominence with an odometer reading only 16 miles, and you have the perfect recipe for a collector’s bidding war! As you can see in the video, that’s precisely what happened, and after fees, this piece of American performance history changed hands for $410,000 – nearly $200k over the recently-set BaT record. Outside of the “VIN 1 for charity” auctions that don’t really count towards the record books, this was a singular result that isn’t likely to be eclipsed or even approached until the next time 2895 hits the main stage; absolutely incredible stuff!

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4 COMMENTS

DougR Oct 29, 2024 At 6:22 pm

Interesting. I don’t recall seeing another stalled auction dragged out as long as that one was while they worked on the seller to get the reserve off.
Mako Oct 29, 2024 At 11:16 pm

There are so many cars I would buy for around 400k before a ZR1. Just another over priced car that won’t be driven.
IPD Oct 30, 2024 At 8:16 am

Nobody except silver-haired 70+ year olds cares. Corvettes are not and never will be collector cars. They are meant to be mass produced, relatively affordable methods of obtaining top-tier performance. Nostalgia and sentimental value do not change this.

400k is better spent on a C8 ZR1 and pocketing the remaining 200k.
DougR Oct 30, 2024 At 11:38 am

IPD — given your view that Corvettes, even those highly desirable, low production versions that now sell for more than their inflation-adjusted MSRPs, are not “collector cars”, then I would be interested to know what you feel it takes for a car to be considered a “collector car”.