Old Porsche prices- I just don't get it

[Russ S.]

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Is this a porsha site?? If so I need to cancel my membership.

[Mark S.]

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Russ: Take a chill pill! Your friend Mark

[Mark E.]

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FWIW, I listed my 70 L-46 (4 Chap. TF's & 2 Reg. TF's) for sale on two well known Corvette websites in Jan. & Feb.. After approx. 3500 hits/visits of the ads I've had zero interest. One person e-mailed for my phone #, I responded, but I never received a call back.

If it ever sells (and I don't have to pay someone to take it), I'd really like to get a Porsche.

Mike,

Have you tried this site's online classifieds?

Sorry to hear you're giving it up for a Porsche. I hope you feel better soon and have a change of heart.

[Russ S.]

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Mark, Do you have one or know where I can get one?

Russ: Take a chill pill! Your friend Mark

[David C.]

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It's clear some don't prefer C3's, especially the later years. And I agree there were generally too many built to ensure exclusivity and rarity. However, whenever my 73 has sat next to a midyear, the kids all come around the 73. Go figure.

[Michael J.]

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It's clear some don't prefer C3's, especially the later years. And I agree there were generally too many built to ensure exclusivity and rarity. However, whenever my 73 has sat next to a midyear, the kids all come around the 73. Go figure.

Yes, everyone has their favorites, I have some C2s, but I really love my '81. It will be at the National this year in Bowtie judging, and I couldn't be prouder of it.

[Mike F.]

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Have you tried this site's online classifieds?

Appearing soon in The Tailpipe and Driveline.

[Mark E.]

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Appearing soon in The Tailpipe and Driveline.

Don't forget online.

[George J.]

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Yes, everyone has their favorites, I have some C2s, but I really love my '81. It will be at the National this year in Bowtie judging, and I couldn't be prouder of it.

Mark,
that's a great shot of a great looking car!

[David C.]

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I agree and a great color too!

[Paul S.]

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I just don't understand why someone would consider a porch when they could get a Corvette. Just makes no sense but not everybody has common sense. Let the less rational buy the porch that leaves more Corvettes to choose from for the more discriminating buyer.

Now, now Gene. I have said it most of my car buying life--if Corvette guys bought a Porsche and vice versa, the world will be a better place. Me, I own the following: 1967 Corvette Convertible; 2006 PCA Club Coupe 2 of 50; 2015 C7 Z51 3 LT convertible which Chevy allegedly bench marked against the 997 Porsche (like mine). Both the 67 and the Porsche are left in my will to my daughter, so I plan on keeping them both until they die or I do. If I could keep but one, it would be the Porsche hands down. And I'm a discriminating driver--I've logged around 35,000 on track miles in one 911 or another and nothing, I mean nothing in this world that costs less, has that hunkered down feeling accelerating out of a corner, like a 911 of any vintage.

So as one of those who live and have lived in both the Porsche and Corvette worlds, I say viva la difference!

[Phil D.]

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Too many c3's and while body style was gee whiz at time, it hasn't stood the test of time for desireability. And if I might say, I think some like Porsches for the snob appeal and fact they cost more.

I believe there is a LOT of demographics involved. For my Generation X (the baby bust), the C3 was the first iconic Corvette and earlier generations were our father's old-fashioned cars. Unfortunately, my generation for the most part still has kids in college (or adult kids living at home), mortgage payments and due to the economy, we are not anywhere near as well off as our baby boomer parents were. We're not going to get to retire until ten years later than y'all did if at all and only a handful of us are ever going to have money to play with full-sized toy cars. On the demand side, that just means there's a lot less demand for C3s today, but it isn't the car's fault. The C3 was wildly popular, otherwise the body style wouldn't have persisted for 14 years and made sales records even despite meddling government regulations. On the supply side, that means there's way more than plenty of c3s left when we finally do get to play again. Graph the two lines and the price point where they cross is much lower, but that doesn't mean the body style hasn't stood the test of time, rather its just a function of the market conditions.

[Frank D.]

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What was it ? Two or three years ago when the bandit-style Firebirds hit the ceiling ?
I mean like crazy money for those three-legged-dog slow, ponderous looking hulks (my opinion).

I didn't get that either...

[Mark E.]

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What was it ? Two or three years ago when the bandit-style Firebirds hit the ceiling ?
I mean like crazy money for those three-legged-dog slow, ponderous looking hulks (my opinion).

I didn't get that either...

So maybe there is hope for Corvettes featuring "gee whiz" styling that "hasn't stood the test of time".

[Darryl D.]

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I believe there is a LOT of demographics involved. For my Generation X (the baby bust), the C3 was the first iconic Corvette and earlier generations were our father's old-fashioned cars. Unfortunately, my generation for the most part still has kids in college (or adult kids living at home), mortgage payments and due to the economy, we are not anywhere near as well off as our baby boomer parents were. We're not going to get to retire until ten years later than y'all did if at all and only a handful of us are ever going to have money to play with full-sized toy cars. On the demand side, that just means there's a lot less demand for C3s today, but it isn't the car's fault. The C3 was wildly popular, otherwise the body style wouldn't have persisted for 14 years and made sales records even despite meddling government regulations. On the supply side, that means there's way more than plenty of c3s left when we finally do get to play again. Graph the two lines and the price point where they cross is much lower, but that doesn't mean the body style hasn't stood the test of time, rather its just a function of the market conditions.

I disagree with this logic.

I am 66 years old so I was 18 years old when the C-3s came out new in 1968. I bought my first Corvette in 1969, a 9 year old used car because that is what I could afford at the time. If I could have, I likely would bought a NEW 427/435 Corvette. Many my age or a little older did. The ones that didn't that WANTED to are usually the market for nostalgia purchases, so with this in mind I don't see the Gen Xers are the driving force for nostalgia purchases for C-3s. The only thing that might put a hole in MY THEORY is that the cars of your generation when you first likely started noticing new cars with your blood pressure racing would be the late 70s early 80s. Now those years were pretty bad for performance cars so if that was what you were looking for you didn't have much to look at. Maybe all you had to consider for a first car WAS an old C-3 if you were into high performance. However, you could likely afford that old car. Most kids in their formative years are not interested in old used cars but rather the bright and shiny new cars.


No disrespect to owners of 1972 up C-3 but these cars just don't have much to offer in terms of style or performance. They were a long run body style that Chevy capitalized on for sales simply because people would still buy a new Corvette because there was nothing else American made that was any better during those years. I just don't see those cars going anywhere value wise and sadly that is what drive the market on most of these purchases. Remember all of those 1978 Pace cars that got put away for an investment that was going to be worth a fortune? You can still find them for the same money or less than the original owner paid for them new still never titled. Just not that sought after.

The C-3s that are sought after and bring the money are the 68-71 hipo models.