New 47-year-old Chevrolet Corvette put up for auction for $35,500 (7 photos)

1976 Chevrolet Corvette up for sale Bring a Trailer auction. It is noteworthy that for its entire 47-year-old the history of the car "ran" only 26 kilometers. Starting price per lot is only $35,000. It will be interesting to know at what price auction ends.





The body of the third Chevrolet Corvette put up for sale generation is painted in Medium Red, and the interior is trimmed with leather almost the same shade. Although the car has not been used, it is regularly had to be repaired.

For example, last year some body parts were updated Paintwork and restored brake calipers, and a year earlier the engine had to remove to repair the radiator, valve cover and some other components. In addition, the sports car does not have a radio, and The air conditioner needs maintenance.

The low cost of this Corvette may be due to the low the popularity of the Corvettes of these years in principle. Chevrolet equipped such coupe with relatively low-power engines: a 5.7-liter V8, which was installed on a Corvette this year, in the basic version it developed only 180 hp.

The copy put up for sale is equipped with a more expensive version of the engine with a return of 210 hp, but, apparently, potential buyers do not consider such an increase worthy of attention.