Subject: Re: "Barn Find" by j3studio on 2011/10/25 22:41:50
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bogus wrote: The bad part is that 78 Vette's are bottom feeders when it comes to quality control ... the paint sucks, they are simply not that well put together, and aren't really all that fast.
A friend of mine has one, same deal, bought new, parked it. It has some ungodly low mileage, like 20. All from on and off the trailer to shows. That's as far as it goes.
And it's constantly detailed ... and the paint is absolute rubbish!
A barn fine has less value when there are tons of very low mileage 1978 Pace Cars that were taken care of. This is an L82 (that's the relatively good engine for you "new" Corvette folks) but it is an automagic.
The build quality was horrendous and you have to remember this when judging these cars. There's no deducting for filed front fenders, because they did that to try and make them line up with the front bumpers. There's no deducting for screws sitting impregnated in the windshield liner, because that happened enough to be "typical factory production". There's no deducting for paint application issues, because they all had issues. Etc., etc., etc.
In spite of this, they are appealing cars - I wouldn't buy one, but I like to see them. Low mileage throws the normal values out the door: if he finds the right person I could see him selling it for $26k to $36k.
