1967 COPO Corvettes 10?

[TimG]

I'm real familiar with the silver/red COPO export Corvette that is owned by someone in Sheboygan, WI. It is a 390 horse automatic with air and redline tires. It is stunning.
It was ordered by the President of some country and stayed with him for a few years. Well documented with pictures and paperwork. The trim tag on that car has no interior code if I remember correctly. They could not have silver with red on a trim tag so the interior is not coded.
I am very familiar with that red 67 L89 car, I owned it from from 1984 until 1992. I brought it to Sacramento with me when I was transferred there and sent is back to a friend in 1992. I had a correct replacement L71 in it. It was red with red interior. I drove that car over 20,000 miles and ran the snot out of it. I thought it was an L71 during the years that I owned it.

[Charles]

Hello Tim: Many thanks for sharing the information about the silver/red EXPORT Corvette. It sounds like a "Special Collection" candidate. Was it a coupe or convertible? There are some amazing cars out there that could change perceptions about what was really built back then! At least you got to enjoy the red '67 convertible... just think of the repair bill for those soft aluminum heads which were prone to warping. Regards,

[TimG]

The silver/red car is a roadster with a silver hardtop.
When I bought the red/red 67 Corvette it had an aluminum head L78 in it, I wore out that motor and put the aluminum heads on an LS6 454 and had many fun miles of driving until I dropped a valve. By that time I had collected correctly dated heads and block along with the L71 intake and put together a correct looking L71 engine. That is when I sold it to a friend. He is the one that apparently was searched out and offered money for the car. We were at Bloomington in 1993 and heard that our old car was an L89. A red/red roadster to boot.

[MosportGreen66]

Charlie -- I do not have a black car I have a Mosport Green Corvette.

$35,000 is REALLY steep for a driver car. I would really like to see that car for about 20,000-25,000. Considering a 1968 Tri-Power convertible, M-21, tele-wheel, side-pipes, in Fathom Green on black -- that received top honors @ NCRS and Bloomington shows just went for $55,000 at NCRS Hershey National this past week. I know your wondering where the connection is but no one can restore a Corvette from start to finish for $15,000. (from driver to show car condition)

-Dan

I was at the Corvette thats why the reply took so long. Yes, Corvettes are my main hobby.

[MosportGreen66]

I forgot to add something. At the NCRS show I met a man who owns a 1967 Corvette convertible with a C36 (I think thats the code) rag-top delete option. I do not know anything more then that but he is sending me some pictures and information on the car.

-Dan

[ChrisS]

Dan,
Are you referring to a hardtop-only option or no hardtop AND no folding top?

[TimG]

Heard there were lots of good cars there. A 65 fuelie that a friend owns went top flight, this blue/black coupe came to Texas by way of Northern California (Charley).
Also heard that John Lejsal from Houston had his car on a transporter and another car leaked brake fluid all over the original paint job of his 72 big block. It apparently went from the front to back of the car. Ouch......

[ChrisS]

Regarding the hard-top only subject, I believe that a buyer had a choice of either a hard-top or a soft-top included in the base price (see M.F. Dobbins book page 334) of a convertible. I'm not sure whether this would be an option delete. Option code C07 gave the buyer a hard-top as well as the soft. Noland's book indicates that there were 895 '67s produced with a hard-top only, C07 with an ECL of BA. Far more than I would have thought would have been made that way.

[MosportGreen66]

I said I did not know anything about the car. And the option code was C07 your right.

[bbdon]

Unfortunately, I don't think that you can figure the sale price of a car by knowing the restored value and then subtracting the retoration cost. If that was true, the seller would have have had to pay me to take the last car I bought.