There's a show on pay tv, called 'Wheeler Dealers'. It's a British show, where a car dealer buys a distinctive car cheaply, makes some repairs and refurbishments and then on sells it, hopefully for a profit.
On today's show (part 1 of 2), they bought a C4 Corvette. I don't know exactly what year, but it has Cross Fire injection, so it must be early.
The car is a bit untidy, but complete, running and registered, but most importantly, cheap. The host bought it on an online auction (I'm assuming ebay), for 2,100 pounds and drove it home. Of course, in England, there is no requirement to convert them to RHD, which you would think would be one reason that they might be so cheap. However, the host was saying, that when they were new, they cost around 50,000 pounds, so I'm assuming the Brits have an exhorbitant tax on importing new cars from the US.
There were a couple of electrical problems that were easily fixed and it's mechanically fine. If you washed an polished it, it would make a good '20 footer' and, for the price, something that you could just drive around - even to Woollies to do the shopping.
The funny thing I found is they kept refering to it as a 'yank tank' and how it felt big when you drove it and how typically 'American' it was. Speaking personally as an 'actual' yank tank owner , I'd have to disagree totally. I drove a really nice '85 'Vette roadster a couple of years ago - 50,000 original miles and LHD - that a mate had for sale, and it was the smallest feeling American car I'd ever driven. In my view it was genuinely nimble and light (or maybe I've just been driving barges for too long).
It'll be interesting to see how it ends up and how much they sell it for.
Having said that, don't expect me to report on it for a few days, my computer has contracted a virus and I'm just about to unplug it and take it to the repairman. I bet if home computers had carburettors and points ignition, this wouldn't happen!
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