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The Reverend Natural Light - 10 Jul 2006 21:25 GMT

I buy parts from a wrecking yard owner at his house. With a day's
notice, the parts are waiting on the front step and I give the check to
his wife on my way home from work.

Yesterday, I drove up in my '91 C4. "Is that a ZR1?" she asked. "No,
I wish."

"We have one here in the garage. It has 74 miles on it."

?!?!??!!

Turns out, they bought it as an investment, hauled it home on a roll
back, and put it in the garage where it's sat ever since. It has one
test drive at the dealer on it.

Unbelievable!

-rev

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RicSeyler - 10 Jul 2006 22:16 GMT

LOLOLOL
I certainly hope they don't work in the field of
investment counseling for the public. PFFFFTTTTT

>I buy parts from a wrecking yard owner at his house. With a day's
>notice, the parts are waiting on the front step and I give the check to
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Bob I - 11 Jul 2006 00:41 GMT

That's just sad way to own a 'vette.

> I buy parts from a wrecking yard owner at his house. With a day's
> notice, the parts are waiting on the front step and I give the check to
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> -rev

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Crabs - 11 Jul 2006 03:40 GMT

> Yesterday, I drove up in my '91 C4. "Is that a ZR1?" she asked. "No,
> I wish."
>
> "We have one here in the garage. It has 74 miles on it."

Sad but true.

Of the 6939 ZR1's produced between 1990 and 1995 a little over half have
been accounted for. More than a few have met their untimely demise,
either on the race track or on the street. There's pictures of at least
6 wrecked ZR1's at www.wreckedexotics.com,
The rest remain hidden away in storage, awaiting the day when they bring
as big a return for their owners as a '69 ZL1 or an unmolested L88 coupe.
Which isn't likely to happen anytime soon.

There were also 84 "Evaluation" pre-production ZR1's made in 1989. Most
were probably returned to GM to be crushed, however a few (unknown
exactly how many) were spared and still exist today.
There are also a small handful, maybe as many as a dozen or so
pre-production mules and test cars that somehow escaped the crusher.
Not to mention the 3 or 4 that were crushed and left to rot in a field
somewhere near the Lotus production facility in Norfolk England that
were discovered by Corvette/ZR1 enthusiasts and revived/restored.
These cars will probably be worth quite a lot sometime in the future.

TomC
'90ZR1 #792

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Dad - 11 Jul 2006 04:00 GMT

>> Yesterday, I drove up in my '91 C4. "Is that a ZR1?" she asked. "No,
>> I wish."
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> TomC
> '90ZR1 #792

Sad but true, by the time it is worth what they paid for it that money in a low
interest CD will have been worth 2 ZR1s. If you every see a ZR1 catch a true L88
value our date will start out as Three Thousand and whatever.

You're doing what the ZR1 was built to do, be driven for the fun of driving a
great car, not sit in a garage collecting dust and very little added value.

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Mack - 11 Jul 2006 05:27 GMT

>I buy parts from a wrecking yard owner at his house. With a day's
> notice, the parts are waiting on the front step and I give the check to
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> -rev

more money than brains that couple

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