A few days ago I was driving with my wife and son up to my mom for the customary Friday dinner. On the way, I happen to stumble upon this C4 ‘Vette, complete with glowing lights from under its hood and around the front wheels.
Unintentionally, both of us were passing and re-passing in a sort of seesaw effect:
For those of you interested; I’m listening to the Climax Blues Band. I’ve convinced myself three-months-old Ben likes it (probably not, he’s fast asleep at this stage).
In Israel, most if not all C4 Corvettes were imported in recent years and not when they were produced. Numbers are actually increasing, now that more than thirty years have passed since the first C4s rolled off the assembly line, so you can now import then as “Collectible Vehicle”s, and many people do. There’s also a good Israeli club for Corvettes, with meeting and activities. I mentioned it here.
And now for some photos I’ve taken of C4s from various meetings:
I also saw many Corvette C4 and C3s on a recent trip to Finland. In their old age, they seem to be getting around. I toured the Corvette factory in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 2015 and the factory was running on a mandatory 50 hour a week overtime schedule. Many of the cars on the line were for export, they had different door mirrors. Overdue signs that the Corvette is being recognized as a great sports car worldwide.
Maybe not overdue though. It took a long time for it to actually become decent enough by international standards. The early ones only ever had to seriously compete with muscle cars, and the main selling point compared to foreign sports cars was price, not quality. I’d never even consider buying a Vette older than a C5.
My first Corvette was a 1984 C4 I bought back in 1991. I thought I got a deal, in retrospect I paid a little more than I should of but it was worth it. That car was world class and compared to the last few years of the C3 the difference was like night and day. The price in the ‘States today for a early C4 in good condition is a bargain that is probably why they are starting to show up overseas. Average price for a 84-94 C4 is under 10 grand. Here on Florida’s central West Coast Prices start at $2200 we are are talking Miata prices.
The C4 may not get a lot of love, but it’s the Corvette of my childhood years, so I still like them (though I’m unlikely to ever own one). The lighting inside the fender “gills” is sort of cool, if a bit bright; I’m not usually in favor of extraneous non-stock lighting in cars but that works somehow.
That would be the result of bad headlight motors, that’s the light from the headlights you see.
Seems like “you kept on passing in the night, and twice on the right, yes, twice on the right!” 🙂 See what I did there, LOL! 🙂
Corvettes were never available here new either but plenty have turned up used so I get to see quite a few roaming the streets not in Mustang numbers but certainly not rare cars anymore, we had no restrictions on used cars and after they age far enough no requirement for RHD either.
Those are – where sticking with the original emission controls is not a must – potentially supercars waiting to be unleashed, with chassis, steering and suspension capable of handling double the power they had when new. When you consider the laughable prices even good cars go at, they make a lot of sense.