Would any of you pay this much??

[blackSS01]

I think this dude is high...... I was looking through a local auto trader and stumbled across this:

1990 Corvette ZR1
Red in color with 32 valves and 375HP. Never been wrecked with window sticker. 39,000 miles.

A whopping $19,000.00

I don't care if that piece of shit is rare or not, I can get a 01 - 04 Z06 that

A: Looks better
B: Performs better
C: Gets better MPG
D: Is faster
E: Has more options
F: Will turn more heads

I could keep going but just wanted to see what everyone else thought.

[JwMonE99]

Hes high

[ls1camino]

LT5

I might pay that much if it's a true, unmolested LT5.

[Tobynine9]

A C5 Z will never have the collectability of a ZR1.

That car is a must-have for any serious Vette collector. IMO.

[preston1980]

I think this dude is high...... I was looking through a local auto trader and stumbled across this:

1990 Corvette ZR1
Red in color with 32 valves and 375HP. Never been wrecked with window sticker. 39,000 miles.

A whopping $19,000.00

I don't care if that piece of shit is rare or not, I can get a 01 - 04 Z06 that

A: Looks better
B: Performs better
C: Gets better MPG
D: Is faster
E: Has more options
F: Will turn more heads

I could keep going but just wanted to see what everyone else thought.

Your correct on the better performance out of a 02-04 Z, but a ZR1 is very rare car.
Its like the 93 Cobra, Its a slow turd, but if you have one in good shape, it is still worth a lot, and people will always make offers to buy it from you.
Its not always about performance. I would probally pick the ZO6, becasue Im not a collector and I only have a 2 car Garage.

[SHines-IT]

That's about right... I just test drove a 1990 ZR1 and its a bad ass car, it has 19,000 miles (I think, it was low) for $20,000, at a Corvette dealer. So thats about what to go for, from what I seen... If you ask me, it performs just as well a C5 Zo6. But I talked my self out of it, could not justify driving it everyday... To much of a collectors car and it takes 12 quarts of oil.

I want an 06 GTO after test driving one, the seats are a dream and I feel confident after taking it out for lunch. Nearly as nice as the Suburan seats, so I think I found the car. Now to sell my cars, lol.

[02Sweet]

Your correct on the better performance out of a 02-04 Z, but a ZR1 is very rare car.
Its like the 93 Cobra, Its a slow turd, but if you have one in good shape, it is still worth a lot, and people will always make offers to buy it from you.
Its not always about performance. I would probally pick the ZO6, becasue Im not a collector and I only have a 2 car Garage.

[86 IROC-Z]

If I were rich I would buy it just to roll it into the ocean.

[310stanger]

Your correct on the better performance out of a 02-04 Z, but a ZR1 is very rare car.
Its like the 93 Cobra, Its a slow turd, but if you have one in good shape, it is still worth a lot, and people will always make offers to buy it from you.
Its not always about performance. I would probally pick the ZO6, becasue Im not a collector and I only have a 2 car Garage.

I crave a 93 cobra lol in black

[310stanger]

That's about right... I just test drove a 1990 ZR1 and its a bad ass car, it has 19,000 miles (I think, it was low) for $20,000, at a Corvette dealer. So thats about what to go for, from what I seen... If you ask me, it performs just as well a C5 Zo6. But I talked my self out of it, could not justify driving it everyday... To much of a collectors car and it takes 12 quarts of oil.

I want an 06 GTO after test driving one, the seats are a dream and I feel confident after taking it out for lunch. Nearly as nice as the Suburan seats, so I think I found the car. Now to sell my cars, lol.

They let you take all these cars out at 18? damn sales must be SLOW lol

[SHines-IT]

They let you take all these cars out at 18? damn sales must be SLOW lol

Sales are slow, and I hate to say it... I get Socail Security, since my dad passed away (It ends soon). I can prove it, so the dealers know I can afford the payments. Plus they see I am willing to trade the Trans Am in and put few grand down with it.

[twozs]

a 1990 corvette was about 30 grand. the ZR1 option was 29,000 dollars alone which doubled the cost of a corvette. about the same as a 69 corvette with the aluminum engine option.... from a serch....Even though the 1990 Corvette was largely the same car as the previous year’s edition (5.7-liter 350-ci V8 rated at 245 horsepower), this year would prove to be a major one for the Corvette and go down in the history books as the year the ZR-1 option was unleashed (1990 Corvette specs).

A $27,016 option package, it was originally designed as a 1989 midyear model and preceded by much advertisement and anticipation. It was nevertheless postponed until 1990 due to production delays and non-availability of engines. Under the hood lurked the new all-aluminum LT5 motor, a monster 32-valve, 375-bhp, 350 cubic-inch V-8 clocking 0 to 60mph in 4.3 seconds.

Hailed as the "Super Corvette", the new car was available for a ’modest’ purchase price in excess of $60,000 - a mere 3,049 ZR-1 models were to be sold, and in some cases the price tag doubled as customers happily paid inflated prices to be among the first to own the American supercar.

[02Sweet]

a 1990 corvette was about 30 grand. the ZR1 option was 29,000 dollars alone which doubled the cost of a corvette. about the same as a 69 corvette with the aluminum engine option.... from a serch....Even though the 1990 Corvette was largely the same car as the previous year’s edition (5.7-liter 350-ci V8 rated at 245 horsepower), this year would prove to be a major one for the Corvette and go down in the history books as the year the ZR-1 option was unleashed (1990 Corvette specs).

A $27,016 option package, it was originally designed as a 1989 midyear model and preceded by much advertisement and anticipation. It was nevertheless postponed until 1990 due to production delays and non-availability of engines. Under the hood lurked the new all-aluminum LT5 motor, a monster 32-valve, 375-bhp, 350 cubic-inch V-8 clocking 0 to 60mph in 4.3 seconds.

Hailed as the "Super Corvette", the new car was available for a ’modest’ purchase price in excess of $60,000 - a mere 3,049 ZR-1 models were to be sold, and in some cases the price tag doubled as customers happily paid inflated prices to be among the first to own the American supercar.

hmm...good to know. But for my tastes, no way. I don't care for the "rare" collector cars. I would have trouble modding them and don't want to pay that premium. But to the person who can buy them and keep them original:
THANKS! You are preserving history!

[preston1980]

hmm...good to know. But for my tastes, no way. I don't care for the "rare" collector cars. I would have trouble modding them and don't want to pay that premium. But to the person who can buy them and keep them original:
THANKS! You are preserving history!

[DrMilhouse]

Worth every penny, but I wouldn't pay it because I'm not a collector either.

Just an FYI trivia thing...

The last NEW ZR1 was sold in Colorado at Chesrown Chevrolet in the wintertime of I think '96. It was purple and gorgeous. It went for MSRP plus a healthy mark up. I think it was around $75 or 80k if I remember right. It was sold to a guy that was buying it as a birthday or christmas present for his wife or some crap like that. He wrote a check for it.

[preston1980]

here is one on ebay with 35k on it, looks ok, still rather have a C5 ZO6
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/EXCEL...=p4506.c0.m245


This ZR1 is more my style: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...&category=6168

[blackSS01]

If I were rich I would buy it just to roll it into the ocean.

I like your style

And 12 QTs of Oil

[bodyman5000]

If I were rich I would buy it just to roll it into the ocean.

If I were Bill Gates rich I would buy one to keep, but if I were that rich I would spend most of my time buying VW buses from hippies and collecting them.

Once I got most of them, I would take them all to a field and buy a monster truck and run the pieces of crap over.....big fun!

I would give out free videos of my demolition at hippie concerts.

[silverWS6]

I would

Ever seen the Barrett Jackson auction? They go pretty high there

[Smittro]

By Sajeev Mehta
April 14, 2008


Until now, TTAC has only reviewed new cars. Due to popular demand, we've decided to experiment with reviews of pre-loved automobiles. This raises some important questions. Should we compare the used car to its contemporaries, its latter-day incarnation or an equivalent-priced new car? Or should we just review it "as is" and let TTAC's Best and Brightest hash out those issues in the comments section? As the Brits say, we're going to suck it and see, beginning with Sajeev's review of a Lingenfelter-modified 1990 ZR-1 Corvette.

The ZR-1 is J. Timberlake in fiberglass, bringing "sexyback" with a low-slung beltline, voluptuous hood and toned backside. But check out the attention to detail: black moldings tuck away gaps better than a frantic Worldcomm auditor. A wide-body rear avoids rice boy lumps and scoops with passion and precision. The understated flare in the ZR-1's doors proves that GM could put Pininfarina on notice.

No doubt: Chevy got props from reluctant Ferraristi when the Bow Tie Boys lifted the ZR-1's clamshell hood and exposed the Mother of Pearl motor. The quad-cam V8 was loaded with Lotus-fettled technology, bursting at the seams with 375 horsepower built by (get this) Mercury Marine's finest craftsmen. With 0 to 60 sprints in 4.6 seconds, a top speed of 180mph and an asking price under 60 grand ($58,995), the American had joined the big leagues.

The test car was modified by Lingenfelter Performance Engineering (LPE), purchased through a GM dealer. Since the Chevy shamelessly whacked Lotus in the knees by demanding a ZR-1 bore spacing befitting the small-block family genes (4.4 inches), LPE tuned, honed and ported the ZR-1 to 6.8 liters, 12:1 compression and a jaw-dropping 660hp. That's all motor, baby: no boost, race fuel or laughing gas.

Let the clutch out and a rush of sixteen fuel injectors fans the flames, while thirty-two valves keep the pressure on your cerebral cortex to a Honda-like 7500 rpm power peak. The ZR-1's V8 rumbles at the bottom end and screams bloody murder, F355-like, at the top of the power band. And yes, it's fairly quick.

I needn't risk my license to prove the point. Much love to our friends at Car and Driver, who recorded the astounding fact that the LPE ZR-1 does the 0 -150 - 0 hustle in 23.3 seconds. My quarter mile drag verifications came in at 11.7 seconds at a scorching 129 mph, hitting 185 mph in the standing mile. It's absolutely terrifying– in a good way.

But the ZR-1 isn't all motor. The Corvette C4 underpinnings took no prisoners during their SCCA-dominating tenure. Porsche was powerless, so Ferrari was next. Even with an extra 100lbs up front, the ZR-1's low center of gravity and blessed suspension made most overlook its lack of chassis integrity, dumbbell-weighted steering and long-throw ZF gearbox.

Thanks to a brace of chassis bracing, a Hurst shifter and modern coil-over componentry, the LPE ZR-1 attacks corners with poise and a bit more refinement. Its steering requires significantly more muscle than finesse, but gets the job done in bombastic Lamborghini fashion. And before the beancounters plundered the Corvette's parts bin, the ZR-1's buckets hugged like a mother and coddled like a Cadillac.

Yes, the Vette's interior is Lumina approved, but these thrones turn a dental visit into a Disney vacation. Plus, the C4 Vette's F1-esque seating position invigorates, mostly because I'm not one of America's Biggest Losers. All of which makes curve flattening in LPE's ZR-1 an exercise in patience, practice and pleasure.

You definitively don't want to go into a corner too hot, as there's no handling taskmaster to save your bacon. But with 18" Michelins (the non run-flat variety) afoot there's plenty of margin for error. And when you roll into the throttle at the apex, look out! The LPE ZR-1 flies though any turn, with nothing but 13.5" rotors, Wilwood calipers and ABS interference stopping it.

And when checkered flags turn to business casual at the Hyatt, putter down the interstate in the ZR-1's insanely tall gearing and set the dampeners in "Tour" mode. Magnaride it ain't, so hand over that ignition key to the valet. Just don't leave without the dash-mounted power key: its absence causes the LPE ZR-1 to "lose" more horses than the Porsche Boxster S has to start with. Damn! (Just like the Veyron, you need a special key to get full power.)

So, thanks to the tuning gurus at LPE, the Corvette ZR-1 lives to see another day. Not to mention Chevrolet donated this engine's pedigree for the universally acclaimed pushrod V8s that makes today's GM products so desirable- including the new ZR1. So if you ever meet the first Corvette to credibly compare with Italy's finest, show some respect. The ZR-1 is still the "King of the Hill."