To truly appreciate this 1973 Corvette for sale on Craigslist for $28,000, it helps to have lived through that decade.
My brother’s first new car was a 1972 Chevelle painted what I’ve always considered to be gold. It was a stripped-down car with no carpet, just rubber on the floor pan, but when he jacked up the rear end and put on wide tires on the back and squealed out of our driveway, I thought it was the bomb.
This ’73 Corvette is very similar in color to my brother’s car, but Chevy calls it Yellow Metallic instead of gold. While the color might not be very popular in the modern era, for its time period, it was just as fashionable as the coppertone brown refrigerator that I was so proud my parents bought after our boring white fridge finally croaked. It looked so good next to the orange shag carpet in our “open-concept” den/kitchen combo.
This gold – pardon me, Yellow Metallic – Stingray, which is labeled an original 29,000-mile survivor, is similar to my brother’s Chevelle in another way, too. This Corvette came with just $318 worth of options – $173 for an AM/FM pushbutton radio, $113 for power steering, and $32 for GR70x15 steel belted radials. That means it didn’t – and still doesn’t – have modern necessities like power brakes, power windows, tilt wheel, or – so necessary in the South – air conditioning.
Being offered in Nassau, New York (Long Island), this ’73 still looks very nice, especially the black vinyl interior that seems to support the low-mileage claims.
It also boasts of being “Gold Certified” by the National Corvette Certification Board on June 28, 1987 “on the basis that its overall originality and condition was judged to be within 95-100% of what it was the day it left the factory.”
We’re not sure that award really means much nearly 40 years later, but photos with the current listing seem to show it might still be worthy of such recognition.
As the last of the rear-chrome bumper and first of the front-rubber bumper Corvettes, it represents a unique model year for Chevy’s sports car. Indeed, legendary Corvette designer Larry Shinoda once called the ’73 his favorite C3 because it came closest to the original design theme.
Someone out there who’s looking for a Corvette with a real ’70s vibe may well fall in love with this low-option car. Since it’s likely to be a weekend cruiser for a new owner, it’s not really all that important to have it loaded with options, though AC would definitely be nice. Would you go boogie with us back to the ’70s?
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Craigslist via BarnFinds.com
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i have a 75 for sale ,just painted for 21000 ca or bo
Yeah I’ve always thought this color is a lot more gold looking than yellow. It’s still a nice looking Corvette and the 73 is my all time favorite model year Corvette.
Very nice
Nice, a real time capsule.
BLUE/GREEN WAS ALSO A ONE YEAR ONLY COLOR FOR THE ’73 MODEL. I ORDERED WHAT I THOUGHT WOULD BE MORE BLUE THAN GREEN……..UNFORTUNATELY FOR ME IT WAS LIKE BRITISH RACING GREEN! ANYWAY, I WAS LUCKY I ORDERED SADDLE TAN LEATHER INTERIOR. NO HARM NO FOUL!
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