Roger Judski shares the same birthday as the Corvette.
Maybe that’s one explanation for his lifetime as a Corvette enthusiast, including 60 years as owner of Roger’s Corvette Center in Orlando, Florida.
But all good things must come to an end, and Roger recently closed the business.
Naturally, after being around the Corvette hobby as an enthusiast and a business owner for six decades, Roger had accumulated a lot – and we do mean a lot – of related parts.
With the business now closed, though, all those parts have to go somewhere, so thousands of assorted parts are now being offered in a no-reserve auction on Bring a Trailer, where the bid has hit $6,000 with four days to go.
If you’ve ever wanted to start your own Corvette business, this might be a great time to start.
All Corvette enthusiasts can find something to draw their interest with just one look at this collection. As the owner of a ’96 convertible myself, I immediately spotted the 19 C4 hardtops that are very hard to find and expensive even when you do. There are the same number of similar hardtops for C3s, too, along with 80 painted coupe tops and 11 new glass tops for C5s.
You’ll also find hundreds of tires (though we wonder if they may be past their usable life) and wheels, some NOS, from many generations, including Kelsey-Hayes knock-offs.
Three V8 engines and at least five transmissions are included, along with gears, half-shafts, carburetors, 80 radios, dozens of exhaust components, three new red seats and two new sets of red door panels and even a rear bumper cover for the 1996 Grand Sport, and many other seats from various generations.
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Bring a Trailer
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Rogers corvettes is about 30 minutes away from me and I’ve followed his business since I was a teenager purchasing and as soon as I graduated I purchased a 1968 corvette coupe from him which was a basket case and paid him $2,800 back in 1979 which was a lot of money for a teenager back then especially for a vehicle that didn’t run. It was numbers matching 350/350 Muncie 4-speed with a wicked metallic candy apple with tastefully done 3-colored flames from front to end at door. Anyway, I was there several years ago at his last shop in Casselberry, FL. Trying to see if he’d part ways with his 1969 corvette ZL-1, and he actually told me he was going to set it ready to sell. He told me that the price to own it is 3.25 million which I believe with only two that were produced he would probably get more from some collector.
Sorry to hear that Roger’s is closing. I visited there once a number of years ago and used to check his inventory quite frequently.
I wish I was closer… sigh…
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