UPDATE 03/09/2022: It must be frustrating to list a car for sale with No Reserve only to have the winning bidder fail to front with the cash. That has been the fate of the owner of this 1972 Chevrolet Corvette. The previous listing indicates that it sold for a cool $29,500, but the successful bidder failed to pay. Therefore, the owner has been left with little choice but to list the Corvette for sale once again here on eBay. Located in Alexandria, Alabama, the bidding has already rocketed to $14,200, and as before, there’s No Reserve in play. All we can do now is cross our fingers and hope that the owner has more success the second time around. I have to say a big thank you to Barn Finder T.J. for spotting this beauty for us.
“Running when parked,” this Sunflower Yellow 1972 Chevrolet Corvette rested idle since 2001. Just yesterday we were wondering if airplanes would fall out of the sky or the power grid would implode when the 20th century came to a close, yet this classic last blew carbon out the tailpipes over two decades ago. A numbers-matching 454 and four-speed manual transmission set this ‘Vette apart from a sea of ho-hum C3s. If you hear this barn find Stingray calling your name, tune in to the listing here on eBay.
Orange mailbox-sized valve covers trumpet the presence of the 454 cid (7.4L) big block. Road racers may decry the extra weight of the Mark IV “rat” motor on the front end, but for bragging rights and casual tire-smoking torque, fuhgeddaboudit; the 454 delivers the mail. Even this 8.5:1 compression ratio version makes a foundation-shifting 455 lb-ft of torque.
Separately, the screaming yellow and saddle interior look great, but combining them may not suit everyone’s tastes. Whether this classic has covered 31,423 miles or 100k more, the interior shows well, including the driver’s seat and carpet that often show wear early.
An hour spent polishing the high-impact paint would blow your eyeballs out, and the metal bumpers out-rank the monster body-colored safety bumpers on later Stingrays. Knowing this specimen would suffer a sound spanking by later Corvettes, I’d still love to own a 454 Stingray for a few years. I might even set aside my preference for manual transmissions and buy an automatic, only thanks to fond memories of a late ’70s 454 Chevy pickup. My friend Tim’s 454 Trailering Special rates as the first vehicle I drove with enough part-throttle acceleration to make its automatic tolerable. Does this big block four-speed ‘Vette make your Top Ten list?
Auto-tragic? NFW…. Np corvette deserves this sad fate.. except C8s as they are confined to being slush boxes…..
Chevys often look good in yellow paint.
The 80s iroc camaro for example.
Stan, I agree about the yellow paint. I owned a ‘76 Stingray that definitely stood out when going down the road vs the typical silver and gray vehicles. Mine had the same brown leather.
This is the perfect vehicle for a low key person that dislikes attention !
Like this color combo a lot…never been IN a Vette…are the seats as skinny / unsupportive as they look?
No. They are worse.
I own a 69 and I have to say this.. buy the best one you can afford.. cause these are not cheap to restore.. better to find one sorted out.. sat too long no one has invested anything in her except to detail (lipstick on a pig)..”Not started”.. well everyone here knows it would take 5 minutes to figure out if she starts.. rebuild carb.. put a line to aux. gas tank and she is gonna start or not.. not rocket science.. fuel and spark.. not complicated..
A/C compressor is missing. I usually take that to mean that the evaporator is bad and too expensive to repair so just roll the windows down and enjoy the wind-in-your face driving. That is if it runs, which you would have to check for yourself. It does look good, I’ll give it that.
Located in:
Alexandria, Alabama
I had a 69 Corvette 350/350 4 speed. Official color had nothing to do with flowers but more to do with muscle. “Daytona Yellow”
Does anyone know anything about that plasticy-rubberey looking shield below the alternator?
Fan pulleys don’t look like any belts installed
This should be interesting. A “No Reserve” auction listing telling me what it “sold” for. I am going to guess the Reserve is right around $29,000.
If someone bid $29500 for this car, no wonder they defaulted…..they came to their senses! Even the current bid of $16000 seems high to me, for a non running 72 that needs a lot of work.
The car may look decent at first, but looking more closely reveals damage to the tail lamp panel and rear spoiler, right door, center top of the targa bar, right front fender, etc. Looking at the nose you can see the bumps that occur when the aluminum rivets that hold the front surround reinforcement to the nose, start to corrode and push trough the fiberglass. Though a common problem, it’s not cheap or easy to fix. Rust showing in the bottom edge of the driver’s door, has me wondering where else it may be hiding. Looking at the wiring under the hood, I suspect that it may take more than a fresh battery to get this car running again.
A yellow, 4 speed, big block, AC Corvette is a desirable car. But this one’s going to take a lot of time and money ($15000 just for paint & body) to make it as nice in the real world, as it appears in first impressions.