Popular YouTuber Dennis Collins is back with another C2 Corvette, this time a 1966 convertible that’s been off the road for the past 31 years.
Check out his latest episode of “Coffee Walk” for more details about this vintage Sting Ray that took less than 24 hours from the owner’s original call to the shop to Dennis and Shawn P. picking it up in Grinnell, Iowa.
A little aside, be sure to check out the fabulous backing job that Shawn P. does in getting a very long trailer in a very narrow space to pull the Corvette onto it. I’m in awe as I may hold the title of “World’s Worst Backer-Upper.”
At the time of purchase, the trim tag showed the car to be an original Ermine White with black top and black vinyl interior, but further investigation back at the shop threw a little monkey wrench into Dennis’s plans.
He thought it was originally a 427/390 horsepower car with four-speed manual transmission and side exhausts, but closer examination of the rear end proved the car to be a 327 instead.
Dennis was excited about being able to use an all-aluminum 427 and turbo automatic transmission he happens to have lying around the shop. While he knows some enthusiasts out there are moaning about not having a manual, he points out that everybody can drive an automatic. We just heard a report yesterday that less than 20 percent of people can drive a manual these days, so maybe he’s right not to limit his market so drastically.
Anyway, Dennis had planned to paint the car Lynndale Blue “since everybody likes Lynndale Blue,” he quipped, with a white interior and white ragtop – perfect backdrop for the factory side exhaust that this car apparently did come with.
While Dennis was disappointed the car probably isn’t an original 427, he’s not too upset because of the price point he was able to get the car for. Since it’s not a bonafide big block car, he says he’s hesitant to use his aluminum 427 in it, instead offering it for sale on his website at cbjeep.com for a possible resto-mod or a stock restoration, whichever a new owner prefers to do.
“I wish I could have done better with it,” the seller – who acquired the car on Aug. 3, 1993, his mom’s birthday – points out in the video. “I’d like to have it all redone, but I didn’t get there.”