If the money is going to a charity, it'll bring 1 meeeellion dollars.
Photography Courtesy Barrett-Jackson
Missed the chance to be the first American in space? You can still own his Corvette, at least.
Alan Shepard’s 1968 Chevrolet Corvette is set to go across the auction block this Saturday during Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale 2022 auction.
The story goes that GM let the early NASA astronauts lease the Corvettes for only $1 a year through a local Chevrolet dealership. These Corvettes weren’t just extras sitting on the lot, however, as Shepard configured this one with the L89 427-cubic-inch V8 backed by a four-speed manual transmission.
Previously, the car spent time in the Corvette Museum of America as well as the NASA U.S. Space Walk of Fame Museum.
Included in the sale of the Corvette are the original tank sticker, order sheet and Corvette Club registration documents.
The best part, though, just might be the license plate:
So, how much do you think this Corvette will sell for? An out-of-this-world price (we’re not sorry) or something closer to Hagerty’s No. 3 value of $77,500?
If the money is going to a charity, it'll bring 1 meeeellion dollars.
Hagerty's #3 on a non astronaut '68 is $77.5?! Wow!
Missed the chance to be the first American in space? You can still own his Corvette, at least.
That's a great line, thank you.
I would've loved to be the marketing guy working at GM back in the day. Pitching to some boss that you've got this idea to lease any Corvette to the astronauts for a $1. Super cool to link one of the sweetest cars to an awesome project.
I lived through this era as a 8-10 year old kid and the space race and astronaut thing was a big part of my life. Nobody does this today?
Now that's providence I'd actually pay for if I could.
A 401 CJ said:Hagerty's #3 on a non astronaut '68 is $77.5?! Wow!
There valuations are all over the place. Its just a number.
In reply to wearymicrobe :
It's also worth mentioning that that's the #3 value for an L89-equipped convertible.
For comparison, #3 value for a "base" 327 convertible is $30,000.
In reply to Keith Tanner :
Thanks, I'm pretty proud of that one. It's definitely not because I'm a little bitter that I'm not an astronaut.
I do get paid to tell the internet how cars make me feel, so I have that going for me.
Final selling price: $308,000.
Somehow not as much as I thought it would fetch.
In reply to Colin Wood :
Says something about society, dunnit?
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