Looking for a new toy/Should I buy (1998 corvette)
 

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1998 Chevrolet Corvette, , V8, automatic, STK#111183. Wow, must see this one!!! Totally custom supercharged with 750 HP. One owner. Stunning vibrant yellow with total custom body and full carbon fiber total custom interior with TV's in head rest. Custom exhaust. Loaded with options including DVD system, multi CD, premium sound, suspension pkg, full pwr pkg and more. One owner and over $50k invested. Vehicle may be shown with optional custom wheel package. Additional pictures and information luxorauto.com.

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It's automatic. So no, don't be a tool. Rebuild an rx7 FD. Then you'd be cool :D

If you have a very stable job then now is the best time to buy a car.

that car looks like sh*t.

My wife was telling me the same thing, and I assumed it was a manual (see where assuming gets you). Oh well back to searching

lol.
too much yellow for me

If only I could find one around here

LOL thats exactly how she put it too. Too much yellow and to many miles for that price.

rofl

That was a lot of Yellow. Get what you want D.



As long as it makes the little woman happy. :worship:

Like it!

Just not the bonnet...

i'm puzzled about the point of having tvs in the headrest when its a 2 seater, not too sure you can watch anything

ugly ugly ugly

I hate all convertible corvettes with a passion. He sunk a bundle into that car. His loss is your gain, I guess.

If you want to be fast from a dig, get an automatic. Vettes are faster as automatics.
You're not going to be able to run it at the track, because with 750hp, you'll get kicked out once you get a decent run in. For some reason they don't like convertible 11 second cars with no roll cages.

Yeah, that's what I thought was dumb.

If you're looking for a toy, get an old school Viper. Looks way better than this turd, and you're not really going to be able to funny unleash any of these cars on the street anyway.

If I didn't know that this car was produced in 1998, I would say this car started all Corvette driver sterotypes. Yes, it's that bad.

Corvette drivers are the worst. Midlife crisis slow in the fast lane drivers.

I was looking at this, but I'm not sure if I want to shell out the money to keep it maintained:
http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/cto/1243125121.html

^Ha, you go from a 750hp Vette, To an 85 RX7, big difference there!

lol 22,000 on a 750bhp vette or 3k on a rx7 in which I could invest the extra 19k into to make 1000bhp?

what are you looking for? A 750hp vette is quite a bit different than a 14 second FB. That's about as fast as the 8. It would definitely be a fun toy and project car, but not quite the same as what you were looking at. If you want a bit more pure acceleration, you'd probably want to look at a different rx-7. In the price range you're looking at, I would aim for a really fast FC or FD. I've seen a couple 20B FC's go for around that. If you're not against V8 swapped 7's, then that would also be an option. I also like the viper option mentioned above. Do you want something that's straight line fast, good at handling or both?

I'm looking for speed this time around

For speed on a budget, can't really beat a used Corvette.

If that's true, and you plan to drag it, you really are better off with an auto transmission on a corvette.