eBay Auction of the Day: 1969 Chevrolet Corvair 500
While we’ve run across eBay Motors auctions before featuring cars with virtually no wear after many years, this 1969 Chevrolet Corvair is the first one we’ve encountered that was still in its bag.
According to the seller, this Corvair was sold in 1969 for $1,900, delivered by truck to the original owner’s house, and then promptly prepared for long-term storage. The car comes complete with the original keys, license plate screws, and a fuel tank that’s never seen a drop of fuel. It’s considered, unsurprisingly, by the Corsa and Corvair Society to be the lowest mileage 1969 example in existence.
The complete time capsule state of affairs for this Corvair is fairly impressive, but as with all cars that have been preserved this completely, we wonder what a future owner would plan to do with it. Driving the car would compromise its ridiculous virginity, and spending $25,000 just to look at a car seems like a rather large waste. Perhaps the GM Heritage Collection is looking?
Comments
chartguy
Why do people do things like this?
T-Bills would have grown from $1,900 to $17,200 and 10-yr. T-Bonds from $1,900 to
chartguy
Why do people do things like this?
T-Bills would have grown from $1,900 to $17,200 and 10-yr. T-Bonds from $1,900 to $29,600. Stocks would have been a LOT more than that.
In other words, it wasn't even a good investment, and who's gotten any pleasure out of it over the years?
Dan
I for one would like to see this car done up in some "Ralph Nader for President" livery and parked on his lawn.
Ducati Minor
It's in sharp condition. The Gen II Corvair is a very handsome car--perhaps more so than the Camaro. What a shame the Corvair Monza Super Spyder never came to be.
bepsf
At least he didn't bury it under the courthouse lawn for 50 years...
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