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Harley Earl’s custom Corvette Sting Ray runs to auction — and a potential record

As a gift for retired long-time General Motors design chief Harley Earl, the GM design staff he had once overseen plucked a 1963 Corvette Sting Ray from the St. Louis factory and customized it to his tastes — from sporting side exhausts to a second instrument panel. Next month, that Corvette will go up for auction at Mecum's event in Chicago, and given the booming market for classic cars and the record $3.4 milllion Vette sold earlier this month, the debate has already begun about whether this Sting Ray will challenge those heights.

After a thorough restoration and years of careful preservation, Earl's Sting Ray sold for $980,000 in 2010; that it's back up for sale three years later highlights how the rising values of classic cars makes many collectors reassess just how many vehicles they need in their garage. And the seller can highlight the one-of-one nature of Earl's personal ride, which he once used as a pace car at the Daytona 500.

Dana Mecum, head of the Mecum Auctions, said when the owners of the Earl Vette decided to put it up for sale, the auction estimate was set at $1.5 million to $2 million. Now in the wake of the record, "the Corvette community has been buzzing and the big question is: will the Harley Earl Car surpass the sale price of the L88?” Mecum says.


http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/harley-earl-custom-corvette-sting-ray-runs-auction-184305594.html

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How high you willing to go, Peg? 

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i can bid 2300 and change.   I don't think I am going to win. Lol

[jaybet]

4.8 million.  Will they take a check?

[PegLeg45]

Different auction.....different 'Vette..... but it is a new record: $3.85 million for this Corvette.




http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/1967-corvette-sells-3-85-million-barrett-jackson-182515094.html

It was just four months ago that a rare 1967 Chevy Corvette L88, one of 20 ever built, set a new record auction price for a Vette, fetching $3.2 million. The record it broke had stood for five years; I said then the new one wouldn't take nearly so long — and sure enough, another L88 Vette sold for $3.85 million this past weekend at Barrett-Jackson's auction/car circus in Arizona. The Vette and other high-profile cars led a stampede of collectors who bought and sold $248.6 million worth of metal and motors in a week — yet another record in the booming world of antique car auctions.

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