1968 L88 Resurrection??

[luvmy73]

It is of course, possible that this car is an authentic L88 and that there was a radio added by the owner at one time and a luggage rack, however, looking at the dash, the cover plate is there where the radio would have been installed and of course, the error with the missing power brake booster.

What I find interesting is that the car has the radio delete panel installed on the guage bezel, but has the antenna on the back??

he also says the car had front end damage at one point, but that he has "examined the frame" and it is in "very good condition". He must have had some time examining that frame with the car on the ground, and with all that trash around it. I mean he can't even get a creeper in there.

To me it sounds fishy.

 

[DakotaFlash]

If a guy had tall the numbers off the engine then you could tell for sure, right? Judging by the current bid on e-bay, someone is gonna be real mad if it isn't an authentic L-88. 32+k is alot of money for a beat up car, even if it is an L-88. I've seen real L-88 '68's and '69's going for the mid $40k's before and they are in premo condition too. So if you paid say 33k for this car and it obviously needs at least 12 to 18k put into restoration, you could get and already to go car for the same or less money. Just my two cents worth.

 

[Mike Carter]

I don't know, I think there's 15-20K in th restoration of this car, add that to the price and it's to steep. The reserve isn't met yet. 40K buys a pretty righteous 68, some vettes have been abused to the point unless that is the car you want to restore and it is special to you and you got the money, it's not worth it. I'd look at this car and bless it and walk away, somebody didn't have the vision to take car of something special. We had a thread on retsro costs for a vette and this car needs it all. I think you got to really look at definition of "survivor", not real sure this is it.

Mike

 

[67HEAVEN]

I would also be more suprised to find a L88 with power brakes considering the camshaft overlap and absence of manifold vacuum.

Tom,

L-88s had several mandatory options including J-50 Power Brakes and J-56 Special Heavy Duty Brakes.

Here's a fine example.
http://www.corvettes-musclecars.com/corvette/68L88/

 

[mvftw]

Can you tell by the red line? The red line looks to be 6500, is that a clue?

 

[Tom Bryant]

Thanks '67. Beautiful '68 on that sight. I keep thinking that this is a 35 year old car and that is a lot of time for prior owners to make "personal improvements", if you know what I mean. I feel it will go for too much $$ to make sense doing a full frame off resto but then it is a L88 (probably) even though abused and monkeyed with. My guess is someone will pay too much for it and send it off to the best resto shop and sink a fortune in it just to have a real L88. You don't restore a car for an investment because you will always have much more in it than you will ever get out of it.

Tom

 

[wicky88s1975]

I noticed in the picture of the engine that the air tubes from the exhaust manifolds are missing. on two examples online, these are there as well as the air pump. Too much money. My 2 cents

 

[Erik S. Klein]

I may be way off base, but I thought that NCRS Top Flight level L-88s were six figure cars.

If that's the case then even a 50K buy with 25-30K on a top-notch restoration would still yield a profit if you could get top dollar for the car (if that were the goal).

I might be off somewhat on the value of an L-88, though, since I haven't really checked in years.

 

[Tom Bryant]

No. You are not off base. I saw a survivor '69 at Auburn a couple years ago not sell for $85,000 bid. Restored it would have been a $100-150K car. That's why I keep saying that this is an L88 after all. It the car is real and all of the hard to find stuff is there the owner tinkerings don't mean squat. It could still be a good buy up to 50K or so.

Tom

 

[Dave65]

My guess is the owner does not really want to sell. He had a car salesman tell him he could get big bucks if he put it on eBay. I can imagine the owner telling him “you can put it on eBay but I am not pulling the d@#$ thing out for pictures”. This is a car salesman trying to make some commission. If the owner were serious it would be better presented. The reserve is going to be huge, even though the salesman is going to try to talk him into taking the highest bid.

 

[Billy]

I agree with Dave. If you are out to maximize your profit on the sale of a rare Corvette you are going to provide as much convincing support documation as you possibly can to justify a high price. By not providing that information, the sales person/individual is hoping that speculation and romantic hope will fetch a high dollar sale. The real barn yard finds are the ones that people stumble upon, not those plasterd on internet sites. I could be totally wrong, but I wouldn't bid on this car with the strong belief that it was genuine.:eyerole

 

[69_Dream]

Can you believe the bidding ended at a whopping $52,601.00 and the reserve wasn't even met? Wow!

All this and not even certain the car is a real L88 :crazy

Sly

 

[luvmy73]

Can you believe the bidding ended at a whopping $52,601.00 and the reserve wasn't even met? Wow!

All this and not even certain the car is a real L88 :crazy

Sly

I am assuming that for it to get that high in price someone must have gone and checked it out in person. If they didn't they are utterly and completely insane and should not be allowed to breed for fear of contaminating the gene pool.

 

[jr9170]

A real L-88 restored to NCRS standards,with REAL documentation is normally priced in the 120-160k price range.I have seen many FAKES sold for upwards of 100k.When buying a vette of this pedigree you better do your homework or you will surely get burned.....JERRY