[GTO_DON]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MosportGreen66</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Here is my take...

The world hates modified Corvettes, sometimes I do too.

I want to love modified Corvettes because I am a proponent of individuality within the muscle car world. On this very website, I even once defended the owner of a new Camaro who put those goofy 25+ inch wheels on it after painting the thing a chrome/gold color stating the style shouldn't be ridiculed because it fits the 'rhetoric of hot rodding.' Fulfilling a vision or goal for car ownership is what makes this hobby tick. Promote diversity. Its healthy. My gripe with the modified Corvettes is multi-fold and lots of the reasons below resonate with others here and in the hobby.

(1) Expensive cost of fiberglass restoration [makes the balance of the restoration seem justifiable when it isn't cheap either]
(2) Social pressure or better a market belief that all Corvettes need to be NCRS/BG/frame off cars
(3) An uncorrected market for project cars/drivers/train wrecks/restamped cars priced at levels near or at their original/frame off/numbers matching kin
(4) A deficit of true craftsmen who can even restore fiberglass correctly monopolize the market for restorations
(5) Flooded market of fakes, clones, restamps
(6) The personal taste in being a purist [read: I like driving Corvettes in stock configuration].

Tony - The blue '66 on ebay is beautiful. Value is very tough to determine but a good starting point would be to total the cost of parts/restoration in the car just to establish a baseline. The nice thing about the auction style is the owner is accepting offers and because you couldn't buy, modify, and build a mid year Corvette convertible for that asking price, assuming the value fits the buyer's budget, I think you can't go wrong [assuming he doesn't want a #s correct car?]. Make sure the trim/vin tags are original. Good luck.

Don - you'll find a buyer for that car. It drove like a survivor on vintage bias ply tires. It appears you like cars that bring you back in time with radical modifications. Awesome - that is what the hobby is about but this is an apples to dump trucks comparison. The blue car is stock appearing - your '67 is not. The '67 has a microscopic market. Could be the market views it more of a project than a hot rod? Just speaking aloud. Add that the block is decked and several key components underhood were converted to resemble a small block configuration doesn't help the sale either. Hang tight and I'm sure you'll connect with the next owner. No one once doubted the cool factor.

Dan



</div></div> Dan, I appreciate your insight and your probably right but I only want to say one thing. 67 Corvettes are a dime a dozen. Anyone anywhere any who that has the money can buy the so called car of their dreams on any day if they want to part with the scratch but cars like mine are few and far between and is a part of our or at least my history growing up and it was a time when we truly had a car that we made our own and each car had a personality and stood out from the other. Now all your cookie cutter cars at a show or auction are alike and its a shame we don't do more to preserve what it was really all about to begin with. I'm jumping down off my psychedelic green soapbox now. If only I could find a real ram iv gto judge with paint like my vette I would be in heaven.