Could a car be anymore stereotypically 80s Florida than a white C4 Corvette with painted salad shooter wheels? Maybe if it came with a gold chain and sleeveless undershirt? Whatever it comes with, I want to remove the T-top and blast some Mötley Crüe on cassette. I would have suggested listening to Autograph but they […]
I was watching an old episode of “The Scarecrow and Mrs King” the other night (streaming it through some free streaming service, can’t imagine the last time that show was broadcast in any manner) and I noticed that the leading lady (Kate Jackson) has an incredible mullet, the Scarecrow (Bruce Boxleitner) has marvelously plastic hair, […]
The Callaway Corvette we posted earlier today was a bit overpriced, so I’m going to make up with the cheapskates in the room (ahem…I’m one of them…the king to be precise). Anyway, this next car is cheap…really cheap…like 10 years ago priced, and I like it. A C4 Corvette for $5k that only has a […]
The story of the famous Callaway C4 Vette goes something like this: A racer turned driving instructor named Reeves Callaway bolted a turbo system on a BMW 320i and loaned the car to a Car and Driver journalist who wrote a one page article on the beast. At the time, the number of folks who […]
Style in the 80s was interesting. You could wear a white t-shirt under a white sport coat while wearing white slacks and white tennis shoes. I guess it was convenient if you spilled something white on your clothes, like some sort of white powder…nobody would know. Same thing goes if you drive a white-on-white Corvette, […]
I was ready to hate this next car when it came through with a description as a “Corvette with a Testarossa body kit”…but I’m not so sure. The overall effect of the C4 front end with a Ferarrish rear isn’t as stomach turning as one would expect. I dare say that I sorta like it. […]
The C4 generation Corvette was a big styling change from the previous C3 Vette. Gone were the stingray inspired fender humps and instead the car featured Lotus Esprit meets a door style styling. It might be the exhaust fumes speaking, but the C4 is starting to grow on me. Find this 1986 Chevrolet Corvette C4 offered […]
Who doesn’t love a nice looking C4 Corvette offered in a shade of white paint with matching white wheels — this is so late 80s/early 90s that it might as well be a mix tape on cassette. It comes as a seller submission from DT regular David S who writes: Yes, it’s mine. Yes it’s a good deal on a nice 6-speed Corvette, as the gods intended. Find this 1990 Chevrolet Corvette offered for $8500 in Tampa, FL via craigslist.
This next car comes as a tip from Matt who writes; Another sketchy, cheap C4 Corvette for DT readers who thought the purple LT1 Corvette was too expensive – or that purple just wasn’t sufficiently over the top to be noticed. Here’s yet another C4 that could use some work! Find this 1984 Chevrolet Corvette C4 offered for $3,500 in Smyrna, GA via facebash censorbook.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again; the C4 Corvette has to be worth something more than scrap value in the near future. It’s a classic and the good ones will demand crazy money, but even the purple wrecks will be worth something because someone will convert them back to stock and fix ’em. And before you say “it’ll never be worth anything” — just remember that there was a time when you could get 69 Corvettes for next to nothing (probably when this 94 was new) and they are expensive today. So I’m putting this car into the “ready for appreciation even though it is purple” group. Find this 1994 Chevrolet Corvette offered for $6,500 buy-it-now in Sandown, NH via eBay.