2005 Corvette coupe

#180401682547. S/N 1G1YY24U555100554. Black/black leather. Odo: 57,000 miles. 20 Photos. Garden Grove, CA.”SUPERCHARGED!! Between 550-600 HP. Racing Sparco seats with harness. Racing Headers, Racing Exaust, Custom Racing Wheels (19” back, 18” front) HUD (heads up display) DVD, Navigation, 6 speed... Professionaly lowered, 4 inch Cal Hood. Windshield has crack. Small minor dent in front. If you have the need for SPEED this is the PERFECT CAR!!! Check Engine light is on because of the modifications. Airbag light is on because the original seats were taken out (never deployed). Car drives like a dream.” 8 bids, sf 12. Cond: 3-. SOLD AT $23,000. Though rough around the edges and finished like a theft recovery, this blown beast represented a ton of bang for your buck. Keep wailing on it and don’t try to resell it anytime soon, or I’ll rescind my slightly well bought judgment.

2006 Corvette coupe

#110433780984. S/N 1G1YY25U265125881. Velocity Yellow /black leather. Odo: 15,700 miles. 6 Photos. Fort Collins, CO. Original Owner. “Pristine condition with no known nicks, dents, or scratches. 6 speed manual transmission, Z51 high performance package. 15,700 mostly highway miles. Always garaged and stored in the winter. LS2 V8 engine with 400 HP. We just got back from a trip to Minnesota and got 28 miles to the gallon! You will love this fabulous sports car!” 9 bids, sf 157. Cond: 2. SOLD AT $27,000. A car doesn’t have to be a bargain to be well bought. While you could have saved a couple grand buying one of three or four other C6s on eBay, you would have paid for that choice with 20k–30k more miles. Well found (and bought).

2007 Corvette Z06 Ron Fellows Edition coupe

#170383060236. S/N 1G1YY26E175132006. Arctic White & Monterey Red/red & black leather. Odo: 3,000 miles. 4 (terrible) Photos. Saugus, CA. “First introduced at the Feb.1st, 2007 Chicago Auto Show. The Ron Fellows ALMS GT1 Z06 was honored and was the first signed limited edition in Corvette history. A total of 399 were built. 300 were built for the U.S., 33 for Canadian market and 66 for export market. This is car #227. This is the only Arctic white ever offered in the history of the C6 Z06’s history! Garaged in Southern California and has never been washed. Purchased and maintained to be a collectable car.” 1 bid, sf 18. Cond: 2. SOLD AT $58,000. There are plenty of customary “never beens” in car sales—never been raced, never been wrecked, never been abused.... Never been washed? There must be a clay bar in that explanation somewhere. Regardless, this rare sale defines market price for low-mileage Ron Fellows Edition Z06s.

2008 Corvette ZHZ Hertz Edition coupe

#200375117608. S/N 1G1YY26W885130084. Velocity Yellow & black/black leather. Odo: 17,167 miles. 23 Photos. Orangevale, CA. One of 500. “Damaged on the front and back... runs and drives... has a California Salvage Certificate and is sold AS-IS. It is currently not registered. The buyer will have to register it in his state of residence, which may or may not involve some extra steps compared to registering a clean title car.” Damage does not correspond to any of the more famous Hertz car wipeouts: fireball in Atlanta in December ’08, driving into the restaurant in Dallas in July ’08, etc. 1 Buy-It-Now bid, sf 721. Cond: 4. SOLD AT $18,000. Like the prom queen going home with the quarterback, or the fat kid getting a job at McDonald’s, there is something so perfectly inevitable about a shredded rental ’Vette. Sure would be funny if you brought this out on the show circuit as-is. Does Chevy VetteFest have a “Best Comedy” category? Barring that, I hope the new owner parted it out, because fixing it up (with a salvage title at this price) would never be profitable.