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C280 Sport · #16 05-29-2009, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by TX76513

$100K car and a $20 digital camera

Camera phone off the LG Shine.

C280 Sport · #17 05-29-2009, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by TylerH860

I seriously doubt anyone would pay 100k for that car. A stretch for even half that. You can get perfect ZR1s for under 30k, Callaways for maybe $10,000 more. Not old enough to be collectible, nor the best Corvette platform. My guess would be somewhere around Callaway prices. Do some research there. The performance and looks are similar.

Nice looking car anyway, and I've never heard of one before.

Thats what we think also. Not sure if it is worht $100,000 but then again anything is worht what someone is willing to pay. A guy that lives 3 doors down from me is a big Corvette guy and has a couple Z06's. We call him up and are meeting with him later on today to see what he says about it.

C280 Sport · #18 05-29-2009, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by SwampYankee

I have no idea but I'll give my father's friend a call, he's a Corvette Club of America judge.

Thank you very mcuh. That would be great.

JimmyL · #19 05-29-2009, 02:09 PM

Whatever the value it would be asinine to let a kid drive around in something so powerful!!!

aklim · #20 05-29-2009, 02:27 PM

Here is the problem though. If you look on google, you see tons of 91s which used the 91 L98 engine and it was Supercharged. This is a 92 with a standard looking LT1 engine that is NA.

C280 Sport · #21 05-29-2009, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by JimmyL

Whatever the value it would be asinine to let a kid drive around in something so powerful!!!

I think she can handle it. She drove her mothers around for a long time while she was waiting for her Pontiact Solstics to arrive. A car will only go a fast as you let it go.

C280 Sport · #22 05-29-2009, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by aklim

Here is the problem though. If you look on google, you see tons of 91s which used the 91 L98 engine and it was Supercharged. This is a 92 with a standard looking LT1 engine that is NA.

So I am guessing that the 1992 one that she has is worth much less then the 1991?

aklim · #23 05-29-2009, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by C280 Sport

So I am guessing that the 1992 one that she has is worth much less then the 1991?

I guess I am trying to say that it might just be a body kit. After all, 91 and 92 are basically C4s. One thing fits the other. Have you tried having the VIN decoded by the parts department? 6667 cc is NOT a standard engine. LT1s came in 350 ci. About a 5700. 6667 is a 406 engine.

406 cid - (400 Block) 4.155" Bore X 3.750" Stroke - 5.7" Rods
409 cid - (350 Block) 4.030" Bore X 4.000" Stroke - 6.0" Rods

It would be a 350 block, I would think so it would have to be bored 30 over with a different crank.

C280 Sport · #24 05-29-2009, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by aklim

I guess I am trying to say that it might just be a body kit. After all, 91 and 92 are basically C4s. One thing fits the other. Have you tried having the VIN decoded by the parts department? 6667 cc is NOT a standard engine. LT1s came in 350 ci. About a 5700. 6667 is a 406 engine.

406 cid - (400 Block) 4.155" Bore X 3.750" Stroke - 5.7" Rods
409 cid - (350 Block) 4.030" Bore X 4.000" Stroke - 6.0" Rods

It would be a 350 block, I would think so it would have to be bored 30 over with a different crank.

We are 100% sure it is not a body kit because in the trunk it came with certificates and a book telling about the car and how it is one of like 30 made and how it was designed by a French man and all this other stuff. It has to be a collecters car to some extent.

Mr.Kenny · #25 05-29-2009, 06:04 PM

My 'SUPER-FLY' El Dorado Mercedes must be climbing in value too.
R U Jealous?

Jerry Cohen · #26 05-29-2009, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by TylerH860

I seriously doubt anyone would pay 100k for that car. A stretch for even half that. You can get perfect ZR1s for under 30k, Callaways for maybe $10,000 more. Not old enough to be collectible, nor the best Corvette platform. My guess would be somewhere around Callaway prices. Do some research there. The performance and looks are similar.

Nice looking car anyway, and I've never heard of one before.

IMHO,

I have to disagree on the platform comment, a C4 with correct rubber will still run circles around most cars(the R107 in particular). Just don't expect to have fun changing the battery in a parking lot, inside joke for fellow C4 owners.

It's not a C5 or C6, but it was and still is a supercar.

Jerry Cohen · #27 05-29-2009, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr.Kenny

My 'SUPER-FLY' El Dorado Mercedes must be climbing in value too.
R U Jealous?

Had to chuckle,

Didn't a Bond movie in the early '70s feature one of these in white? I think it had a gun built into the passenger foor mirror that shot Bond's taxi.