Operating on a budget but still want to have fun with your car?
Then you might want to take a look at this triple black 1990 Corvette convertible being offered on Craigslist north of Seattle.
The low mileage and excellent condition seem to warrant the asking price of $18,500, but unfortunately in this market, we’d be surprised if the seller gets many bites at that price, as many folks would just upgrade to a higher-mileage and better-performing C5 or C6 for about the same money.
This 35-year-old car has just 31,000 miles, a rate of less than 1,000 miles a year, and the seller says it has been pampered its entire life – never seeing rain and always being stored in a garage.
Furthermore, the oil has been changed every 3,000 miles, and it’s been serviced every six months, too.
As a result of that lifetime of TLC, he says this C4 still runs and drives like new – and in fact even smells new, perhaps thanks to being owned by a non-smoker.
While it’s hard to judge condition from photos, the car does seem to be about as nice as you could find inside and out.
With a 245-horsepower tuned port injection L98 V8 engine residing under the tilting hood, this Corvette doesn’t come close to matching the numbers put up by later generations, or for that matter even the performance of the later C4s that put out 300 horses with their LT1s. That doesn’t mean they still can’t provide plenty of thrills on the open road, especially with the six-speed manual transmission in this example, not to mention offering lots of eye candy with their beautiful design. We especially like the way the optional hardtop looks on this one.
We’d like to hear from you about the sometimes beleaguered C4 generation. Do you think the lack of interest from buyers is warranted, or will the day finally come when this generation will be recognized for its more than sufficient abilities?
Source:
barnfinds.com
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The C4 will probably continue to be known as the red headed stepchild of all the Corvette generations. From an 84 to a 95 I’ve owned five C4’s. I loved all of them and they were all fun to drive but also all five of them were problem cars that were sometimes kind of expensive to repair. Hopefully the day will come when C4’s will quit catching as much flak and start getting more love especially for the bargain basement price that you can buy some pretty decent C4’s for. This 90 Convertible looks and sounds like it might be a super nice C4 that is about as nice as they come.
Just an opinion, but I do think the C4’s will have their day in the future. Maybe not as great a day as classics did over the decades, but a decent increase. The less desirable C3’s have been coming up nicely for a while now and C4’s will have their turn, especially original owner cars and/or the more desirable examples and models. I think a lot of people either weren’t around yet or forget just what a big deal they were in the 80’s when they came out. A C4 in good shape is a heck of a car for the money even when they do start going up in price. The problem is/was also that Vettes just keep getting better and better and since C4’s are not a classic their desirability kept going lower and lower on the list.!👍
My 93 Vette can be described as anything but not a problem car, it has given me so far 165k miles of dependable fun from new purchase for 20% off the sticker. It’s not the same car as my C-6 but it’ll put any sports car from the 80’s or 90’s to shame for the money then or now.
A few years before Bill Mitchell’s death in 1988, he had this to say about the C4 Corvette,
“That square box is pretty near plastic. The instrument panel-Dracula’s dressing room. It rides like a truck. It isn’t a style car, it’s a machine car, Engineers are running it. Earl would never let that- I would never let that happen, I condemn the guys for it!”
William Leroy Mitchell (July 2, 1912- Sept 12, 1988) is responsible for creating or influencing the design of over 72.5 million automobiles produced by GM.
Many thanks,
Ray
Those are interesting and funny comments from Bill Mitchell, from his standpoint I can understand his feelings a bit although maybe he got carried away. He was GM design guy starting in 1958, he saw some of the coolest and most creative designs around with many less restrictions to contend with in those days. I came to really like my new C4 at the time, but even I didn’t know what to make of them in the 80’s as a C3 enthusiast, although most cars were a sign of the times then with Cadillac (yuc at the time) included…..When Bill said that in 1988, C4’s were kicked out of their category in racing because they won every race and had to start their own series. Would also be interesting to see what he would have said about C5/6/7/8. Fun discussion, I personally like all the series Vettes, each with their own charm.!👍
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