Thirteen thousand miles. That's the number that matters here, and
it's not the kind of figure you find on a car that lived a hard
life. Averaged across fifteen years, this Corvette covered less
than a thousand miles a year, which tells you it was stored
properly, driven on the good days, and treated as something more
than transportation.
Under the hood sits the 6.2 liter V8, the engine that made the
later C6 cars such a value proposition and still does today. It's a
pushrod small block in the truest Corvette tradition, and it
delivers its power in a way that modern turbocharged cars simply
don't. Immediate, linear, and loud in all the right ways. This is
the engine that let a base Corvette embarrass far more expensive
machinery, and nothing about that equation has changed.
Backing it is the six speed automatic with paddle shift, which is
the combination a lot of buyers are specifically hunting for right
now. You get the ability to leave it in drive and cover four
hundred miles of interstate without thinking about it, then pull
the paddles and take command when the road opens up. For anyone who
wants a Corvette they'll actually drive rather than one they'll
wrestle with in traffic, this is the right car.
The coupe body style brings the removable roof panel, so you get
open air motoring when you want it and a proper closed car when you
don't. It's the most usable configuration Chevrolet offered, and
it's the reason coupes remain the most sought after body style in
the C6 market.
The C6 generation has quietly become one of the smartest buys in
the collector market. Production ended in 2013, values have
stabilized, and low mileage examples like this one are getting
harder to find every year as the higher mileage cars get consumed.
A car with under fourteen thousand miles is not a car that gets
driven back down. It's a car that gets preserved.
Come see it in our 13,000 square foot indoor showroom. We handle
trades, arrange nationwide shipping, and can assist with
financing.
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