33-Year-Old Corvette With 13 Miles On It For Sale In Plymouth [MA]

CBSNews.com ^ | October 21, 2011 | Bill Shields

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PLYMOUTH (CBS) – He’s known as ‘Corvette Mike’ for a reason. Inside his showroom in Plymouth are dozens of Corvettes, all shined up, hand polished and ready to go.

Except one.

A dusty 1978 Corvette.

But if you look closely, you’ll see it has 13 miles on the odometer.

“It’s a brand new Corvette and it’s all full of dust and that’s the way it’s going to stay,” ‘Corvette Mike’ Milian of Corvette Mike New England told WBZ-TV.

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1978 was a special year for Corvette. Not only was the sports car celebrating its 25th Anniversary, it was chosen to pace the Indianapolis 500. GM celebrated the event with a special Indy 500 Pace Car replica, a fully optioned Corvette painted Black and Silver and featuring silver interior and polished aluminum wheels. When the Wall Street Journal published a front page story on March 27,1978 reporting on the special edition Corvette, prices went wild and many of the 6502 replicas were purchased as investments by collectors.

And such was the case as this 1978 Corvette Pace Car that pulled from a Store and Lock last month in Detroit, Michigan. With just 13 miles on the odometer, the interior still has the factory wrapper and that new car smell is still evident.

[ColdOne]

Cool!

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Let's not forget: Peter Max's 36 Vintage Corvettes rotting in a NYC garage for 20 years: The Full Story

[CSI007]

What a waste. The engine will be shot in another couple years. To run it you would need seals on everything.

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>>that pulled from a Store and Lock<<

Would appreciate the 'vette.

[Yossarian]

Obviously rot has gotten to the tires (probably wasn’t up on blocks)...

... and although I’m no mechanic, I’m pretty sure the engine and/or gas storage & delivery systems are going to need help if the oil wasn’t drained and gas was just allowed to sit and stratify into its components for 33 years.

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Many, many officiandos would jump at the chance.

[yarddog]

I know where an original 1955 1 ton pickup is. It has less than 5000 miles on it and everything is original including the tires. I would have thought they would have rotted after all these years but they look almost new.

The truck was used as a firetruck for years and now is a welding truck. Obviously wasn’t run very many miles.

It still looks almost new. I think the maintenance crew purposely keeps it in good shape.

[rickmichaels]

Is there such a thing as a 1983 Corvette?

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I’ve got a 2005 Silverado Duramax with 38K miles on it.

For a diesel that’s like a vette with 13 miles. ;-)

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It has CB radio. :)

[depenzz]

I have a 1993 40th anniversary edition and I only have 27,000 miles on it, guess thats nothing compared to this one. I had a 1981 which I put 80,000 miles on, traded it on this new 1993 and only lost about $1,300 dollars on it, I’m sure that won’t be the case with this 1993.

[ErnBatavia]

"I'll keep Barry from getting it, just because I'm a dickhead!"

[Lx]

No, the last C3 was an ‘82 and the C4 started out in 1984. I just read an article that said they produced 44 in 1983 and destroyed all but one but none were ever for sale.

[Daffynition]

You betcha! Silverados rule!

From a car forum: This is from one of the news stations in my area, and Bill Shields did the story yesterday.

The tires were flat so they pumped them up and pushed it out of the barn, then flat-bedded it back to Plymouth where they changed the totally dead battery. It still had a half tank of 33 year old gas in it, but luckily it didn't hurt the car. When they got the new battery in it, it fired right up (they added stabilizer to the old gas). It's basically a brand new 1978 Limited Edition 25 Year Anniversary Corvette, just like the one for the Indy 500. They made one for every Chevy dealer in the country, 6,502. . black and silver T-top, 350 - V8. Of course, this was six years after all the emissions hardware had been added and stacked into place. So, a lot of the 'muscle' had gone bye-bye by then. But, it was still a quick car.

[tumblindice]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-raEW_nYcb0&feature=related

[Jimmy Valentine]

If it is not an L-82 four speed, forget it.

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LOL.LOL.Not if the dysfunctional Dave Hester gets his way.

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HAHAHA! Yup!

[ErnBatavia]