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VIN 194678S419379














   
Car Year: 1968
Car's approximate birthday: May 16, 1968
 
Owner: Dana Mecum's 26th Original Spring Classic 2013
City: Indianapolis
State: Indiana
Country: United States
 
Purchase date: Undefined
Status: Current Owner
 
Nickname: 194678S419379
State: Bloomington Gold
 
Exterior: 900 Tuxedo Black (2.48%)
Interior: 402 Black (Leather)
Softtop: White
Wheels: Silver (100.00%)
 
Delivery Dealer Zone: Unknown
Delivery Dealer Code: 014
 
Options: RPO Option Percentage
Sold [%]
Sales Price
[$]
  19467 Base Corvette Convertible (BB 430hp) 65.22% 4,320.00
  A01 Soft Ray Tinted Glass, all windows 61.73% 15.80
  F41 Special Front and Rear Suspension 6.15% 36.90
  G81 Positraction Rear Axle, all ratios 94.55% 46.35
  J50 Power Brakes 33.46% 42.15
  J56 Special Heavy Duty Brakes 0.28% 384.45
  K66 Transistor Ignition System 19.10% 73.75
  L88 427ci, 430hp Engine 0.28% 947.90
  M22 4-Speed Manual Transmission, close ratio, heavy duty 0.28% 263.30
  N11 Off Road Exhaust System 16.44% 36.90
  Total   0.000000000000002%
(1 Cars)
6,167.50
 
Factory job nr.: Unknown
Export Car: Non Export Car
 
Car history:
Added to Registry 06/25/2013

This 1968 Chevrolet Corvette L-88 convertible is best known for its tire-melting
burnout photographed for the February 1986 cover of Road&Track magazine,
which dedicated eight and a half pages to a feature story comparing its considerable
charms to those of the then-new 1986 Corvette. And yet even without the benefit
of today’s all-pervasive media, this milestone machine has become a perennial
star in the Corvette community, winning Bloomington Gold Certification and earning
a place in the famed L-88 Invasion. When it appeared in R&T, it was owned by
southern California collector Merle DuPrey and, at just short of 16,000 miles, was
described by the editors as being “as authentic as it’s possible for a 1968 car to
be,” which judgement certainly applies today. Later the subject of a frame-off
restoration by the Naber Brothers of Houston, it is finished as original in Tuxedo
Black with a White soft top and the original Custom Black leather interior. It retains
its original L-88 engine, transistorized ignition, 4-speed manual transmission, off-
road exhaust, Positraction rear end and tinted windows and is fully documented
with the original GM order form, Protect-O-Plate, two tank stickers, dealer invoice,
1968 title application, an issue of the Road&Track magazine and the original owner’s manual.

HIGHLIGHTS

- Bloomington Gold Certified and L-88 Invasion participant
- Frame-off restoration by the Naber Brothers of Houston
- Original 427/430 HP L-88 engine
- 4-speed manual transmission
- 16,000 original miles
- Factory Tuxedo Black with Black leather interior
- Documented with two tank stickers, the Protect-O-Plate, original GM order form,
dealer invoice and title application
- Off-road exhaust, tinted windows, transistorized ignition
- Graced the February 1986 cover of Road & Track magazine
- Inside the issue an 8 page article was devoted to comparing this L88 with a new
1986 Corvette
 
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