Wheeler Dealers Tonight.......

[97BlackC5]

Don't forget I think its the Corvette C4 one tonight 9pm Sky chnl 250 (I think)flicking between that & the football!!!!!

[franv8]

Cheers Nige - got Mum to video it for me - she said it was most good!

[Black Magic]

Have a look on e-bay,
[url]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHEVROLET-CORVE[/url]its up for sale already. Funny, the prices don't seem to gell with those quoted on the programme though

[franv8]

That windscreen crack won't help, think it's about £900 for a new C4 windscreen fitted.

C4's in particular are a nightmare to sell at the moment, Keith of Eurovettes was selling a bargain '85 (so had the more powerful, massively more tunable L98 tuned port injection motor too) and still think he has no takers on it. Trouble is with a short window of opportunity available in an ebay auction, and at any given time probably only a handful of people looking to get into 80's Vette ownership, I suspect it won't make great money.

Might be wrong though, we've all got a sweepstake on a work coleagues Peugeot 106 on Ebay at the moment ( http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1995-PEUGEOT-10 ) - we were all surprised when it went from £70 yesterday to over £300 today - it's only likely to get more frenetic toward the end!

[convert]

Thought the exhaust only cost £315 , and the dash was about £200, methinks the ebayer is somewhat inflating the amount spent, in order to make a profit.

Nice looking beastie though.

[anonymous-user]

Now caught up with this program and it was good to see their enthusiasm for C4. It was the first Vette I ever drove back in the 1980s and as they said was a massively better drive than other cars of that era. The overall impression they gave was a cheap Corvette is likely to be a bag of trouble despite fundamental reliability of the engine; most parts only available from USA and pricey at that.

They kept going on about unreliable electrics for US cars generally and the C4 in particular which will deter many potential buyers. I know the digital dash can need replacement (which they did) but wasn't aware of more general problems. Were they right or wrong?

Wonder what price e-bay will reach.....

[franv8]

Sounds a touch unbalanced then. In my experience most parts are dirt cheap for the level of performance. I can't help but comapre the Vettye to the 300ZX twin Turbo, or even stock Skylines etc. (which were the other vehicles I was considering at the time), for similar levels of performance I have been able to keep my Vette on the road for an average outlay of £1000 a year, within that I've done an engine swap, repaired a faulty dash, several sets of tyres, new mufflers twice and a full stainless set of pipes from the manifolds to the mufflers. That's in 6 years and about 35,000 miles. Plus depreciation has been pretty soft over those years too! I can't think of more of a performance bargain?

I have to say, mine has lived a hard life as pretty much a daily driver, never garaged etc., so now cosmetically new paint is needed and new leather etc.