There’s long-term ownership of a car, and then there’s the owner of this 1954 Corvette convertible.
He reportedly bought it in California way back in 1962, and now 62 years later, he’s still the owner.
Welcome to another fun-filled edition of Quick Shifts! Quick Shifts is a content feature here at CorvetteBlogger featuring links to Corvette and automotive-related stories of interest. This week, our tour of automotive websites takes us to MotorTrend for a couple of C8 Z06 features, and then we throw some shade at a CNN review of the new 2024 Corvette E-Ray. It’s a new era for Corvette Racing and we got an update on Jordan Taylor’s helmet for 2024. Finally, take a walk through Hot Rod Magazine’s archives for a period review of the last RPO L82.
Be thankful that it’s a Corvette that he is wanting. Otherwise, this would be very annoying if the every-minute reminder was for a Honda.
With Mecum’s Kissimmee 2024 auction now in the books, one specific Corvette model we wanted to analyze was the C8 Corvette Z06. The “race car for the streets” have been setting monster sales numbers over the course of the year and the results from the January 2024 sale may provide buyers with some insights on pricing as we move into the new year.
Today kicked off the three-day practice session known as The Roar Before the 24 and the new Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs are there. Our friends at Michelin Racing put captured the four new Corvettes during a photoshoot at Daytona International Raceway. The Rolex 24 at Daytona will get underway one week from Saturday. The Green Flag drops at 1:40 PM ET and you can watch the beginning of the race at NBC.
Would you pay $28,000 for a 1961 Corvette with enough parts to make a “95 percent complete” car?
That’s the situation prospective buyers are facing in a rather confusing eBay ad out of Feeding Hills, Massachusetts.
0-60, quarter mile, stopping distance, roadholding; vehicle performance testing was pretty uniform across the board for decades until Edmunds came along with a brilliant idea: what if all four of those performance benchmarks were smashed together into a single assessment of a car’s performance envelope? U-Drags was born, and we’ve been hooked ever since – especially because Edmunds’ greatest invention just so happened to more-or-less coincide with the publication’s purchase of its own, no-strings-attached C8 Corvette!
The 2024 January auctions are off to a flying start. Mecum Kissimmee just wrapped up nearly 2 weeks in Florida with in the neighborhood of 4,500 cars crossing the auction block. As of this writing, the overall top sale was a stunning 1963 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder that commanded $17.87M. That’s a new record for the most expensive car ever sold by Mecum. In addition, another 15 lots also topped the $1M mark.