Corvettes for Sale: Dallas has Your Shot at the Best C6 Corvette Z06 Carbon Edition to Hit the Market in Years!

Nov 10, 2026

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Corvettes for Sale: Dallas has Your Shot at the Best C6 Corvette Z06 Carbon Edition to Hit the Market in Years!

In May of this year, we detailed a small Addison, Texas dealership called A to B Motorsports that was suddenly flush with prime examples of the 638-horsepower C6 Corvette ZR1 “Blue Devil.” The excellence of their inventory during that moment in time proved to be unsustainable, especially once AutoPark Dallas decided to throw its considerable weight into the hot C6 space.

As of writing, APD claims a whopping 33 C6 Corvettes, and all but two of them – a choice 427 Convertible and a Centennial Edition Grand Sport – are either ZR1s (19 of them) or Z06s (12). While very few of them live up to the standard set up by A to B, AutoPark makes the quantity over quality method work for them by mixing in samples for almost every budget, with some higher mileage specimens, an assortment of modded cars, and a handful of concours-ready pieces all on one impressive showroom (that they share with V-Wagons, SS Sedans, Shelbys, 1LE Camaros, and no fewer than 50 Vipers; it’s a paradise for domestic car fans!).

None of these American Dream machines exemplify the ‘museum-quality’ portion of APD’s inventory better than stock number 3859-VV, a 2011 Carbon Edition Z06 with just 891 miles on the clock! The state of the art for performance vehicles was moving at a breakneck pace in the late 2000s. The 7.0L C6 Z06 was known to bully the exotic competition when it debuted to rave reviews in 2006, but just two-and-a-half years later, Car and Driver was calling it a “big softie” as it brought up the caboose of a four-way comparison. The 505-horse Z’s rep took another hit in 2009 when it was relegated to sidekick status by the supercharged ZR1.

These developments didn’t just hurt its street cred; they also severely ate into its market share. After finding 6,273 homes in its first year on sale and around 8,000 annually in ’07 and ’08, Z06 sales were down by more than half to 3,461 in 2009, and completely cratered to the tune of just 518 units in 2010; the first full year of ZR1 availability. That’s when the Carbon Edition and its non-branded offshoots hit the scene to give the original upgraded C6 its swagger back.

To bridge the sizable gap between Z06 and ZR1, the former was given access to everything that made the ‘Devil’ so wicked, except for its supercharger. It got the adjustable Magnetic Ride Control that was so good Ferrari had started using it, the pizza pan-sized Brembo carbon ceramic brakes that were original equipment on the Ferrari Enzo, grippier rubber, enhanced aero, and multiple carbon fiber body panels, including a windowless version of the ZR1-spec hood.

This laundry list of enhancements didn’t help the lightweight Z in a straight line, but on track, they were a revelation. A Z06 with Carbon goodies (RPOs Z07 and CFZ) recorded a blazing 7:22.68 lap on the extremely challenging 73 corners and 13 miles of Germany’s infamous Nürburgring. That ET shaved an incredible 20 seconds off of the 2006 car’s time, and, more impressively, stopped the clock nearly 4 seconds faster than the 2009 ZR1 in spite of its 133-horse disadvantage. Still, at $100,000 it was a hard sell as most people looking to drop six figures on a GM product during a recession continued to have ZR1 on the brain. The planned 500-unit run was cut short at just 252. They were available in Inferno Orange Metallic or Supersonic Blue Metallic, with the gray-blue hue winning about 2/3rds of the vote with 185 pieced together when the dust settled compared to just 66 for orange. Rick Hendrick, of course, won the rights to VIN 001 and was such a fan that he also scored the last one – which was the lone example painted black – and gifted one to each of his NASCAR drivers that season.

Without the special edition stickers, materials, and badges, the highlights of the 252 Carbon Edition Zs found their way on to a total of 740 cars between 2011 and the end of the line in 2013, becoming one of the rarest, and in retrospect, most desirable of all modern Corvettes. The 900-mile AutoPark Car wears VIN 86 and sits as one of the most factory-fresh ones left standing. The asking price sits at $115,995, which, considering its time capsule status and the original MSRP’s equivalent of $149,700 current-year dollars, isn’t too bad at all. If you become the next owner of this rolling orange artwork, rest easy knowing that you just bought this author’s vote for the best Corvette of any kind to hit the market this year, it’s that special!