This Customized ’63 Split-Window Corvette Is A Reminder That Today’s Totally Awesome Tuned Car Is Tomorrow’s Turd | Carscoops carscoops
, and usually because we think they look great. But we’re not so naive to think that the mods we all lust over today won’t one day look as embarrassingly awful as the orange Toyota Supra driven by Brian in the original Fast and the Furious movie does two decades after its build.
Interestingly, though this Corvette is now red, having been repainted in 2019, there are some pictures in the listing showing its original custom paint job, and given how custom vans from the 1970s have become hugely collectible, you wonder whether it could be restored to its 1970s pomp, just as fans of Britain’s defunct, but once-hugelyhave been rescuing 1990s hatchbacks with Lamborghini doors and outrageous bodykits from fashion purgatory and putting them proudly back on display.
Whatever a future buyer decides to do with the topside of the C2, he shouldn’t have to worry too much about what’s going on underneath the skin unless he wants to. It sounds like the engine isn’t the original, but it was rebuilt in 2019, and with a stretch to 383 cu in , it ought to be reasonably punchy, while the four-speed manual transmission and limited slip differential have also been rebuilt.
This car is never going to be one for the purists, and it has undoubtedly lost value as a result of the changes made to it. But if no one ever modified a car just to keep originality-obsessed future generations happy half a century down the line, much like if no one got inked because they were worried about what their skin might look like at 75 years old, the world would be a very boring place.
What do you think about the idea of modifying cars that are rare and might one day be collectible, and what would you do to this Corvette? Leave a comment and let us know.
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