Well I ended up buying my neighbor's car after jogging past his house for years and coveting it. It was 1.75 miles from my house and I guess I have to find another mile-marker now. It's in amazing shape for 120,000 miles. Original paint and interior except for the cheezy 1980's wood interior kit and the boy racer rear wing installed by the original owner. (I removed both when I got it home, though I will need a new decklid now) My neighbor bought it from him back in 1994. The car still has all of its original paint, though it does have a nice dent in the passenger rear quarter that needs the expert hands of one of those Paintless Dent Removal guys. (Can anyone recommend someone in the NJ area?)
It has the orginal 350 TPI engine and trans (I had thought the trans had been replaced but the owner's receipts show it was rebuilt and reinstalled).
He even called me a few hours after I picked it up to say he had found the original radio at his parent's house in town. Very cool guy. The car was sold originally in Allentown PA at Bennett Chevrolet (Still in business).
It's a realtively rare piece: 1987 was the first year of the Corvette's hand-me-down L98 350 TPI engine in the IROC and only year you could get a yellow IROC with the 350 TPI motor. They cancelled yellow in 1988.
The wife and kids really like the car and the best part is that it cost less than a couple of Charley's NOS ZL1 radiator hoses!
