Originally Posted by MRANT212

Back on track here

1) The Sledgehammer, Speedsters, Calloway cars, Challenge Series
2) 94-95 ZR-1
3) GS and LT4's
4) 90-93 ZR-1
5)35th Anniv
6)40th Anniv
7)Pristine 84's
8) off the wall color combos

The only 83 in Bowling Green would fetch the most but I can't count that one.
That's my order!!

Originally Posted by 84wuzmy1st

My first car was an 84 and I loved it.

I bought an 85 but was looking at 84-85 and early 86. I went with the car that I found in the shape I really wanted for the $$ I had to spend. I wanted iron heads, no ABSS, early C4 as my show Vette.

Will be 30 years old next year, I love the Atari interior, and you don't see a lot of 85's in showroom condition... or at least I don't here in Florida.

Originally Posted by jesters94

I'd have to put the 1994 Brickyard Festival cars on this list. There were only 25 produced (13 red and 12 black), 24 surviving and only 11 located with the decals still intact. The dealerships would remove the decals to sell the car.

Originally Posted by FAUEE

You bring up a valid point, and a good conversation.

You're right, they are essentially a graphics package special edition car - nothing on them is unique to the other '96 cars, not the LT4, not the Z51 pack, the only unique part is the coloring and the fact that they are numbered.

What makes the GS collectible is something else entirely - they're recognizable. You don't have to know what they are, but when you see one cross the auction block with its bright blue paint and big *** stripe, you know it's something special compared to the other Corvettes out there. It takes a keen eye to tell a ZR-1 from a normal car. It takes a blind person to not tell a GS form a base car. That recognition adds value, far more than its initial cost or performance or any of that. That's why you see GS go for more than a ZR-1, or a Challenge or any of that.

There's a lot more psychology to collector car prices than there is statistics.

Originally Posted by Paul Workman

However, THIS is what I think the GS should have been!

Originally Posted by 12 inches

I agree the 96 GS needed more than plastic stick on fender flares and a stripe.

They should have worked over a LT-5 jump it up to 500 hp. People would have stepped over other people to get one.

Originally Posted by 84wuzmy1st

I would guess the Sledgehammer and Callaway Super Speedsters?

Normal guy cars would be The Grand Sports, then ZR-1's, then Collector Editions?

Poor mans would be the 88 All White Anniversary cars and the 93 40th Ruby cars?