There’s just over a day left for this groovy 1976 Chevrolet Corvette, which is already notable for its rarely seen tan exterior. But it’s when you peek inside that this ‘Vette really begins to shine, as it has one of the most far-out interiors we’ve seen on a muscle car lately. The car would be notable just on the basis of its clean cosmetics and good running condition, as the seller notes the fiberglass is in good shape and there are no issues underneath. But it’s definitely for someone who digs the styles that came out of the 1970s, and has an equally groovy conversion van in the garage to park the Corvette next to. Find it here on eBay with no bids and a Buy-It-Now of $7,200.
Check out those seats – that is a very elegant interior. The work appears to extend all the way through the cabin, with the door panels, seats, dash, B-pillars and other areas receiving this well-crafted cloth (or velour) treatment. The seller is correct to say that some people will like it and others will be turned off; which camp do you fall into? Personally, it’s not my style, but for a car that’s not exactly the epitome of a sports car, I could live with it – especially as a testimonial of sorts to the styling that was all the rage when this Corvette was sold new. It’s refreshing to see this customization extend to the muscle car set, and not just a conversion van.
It’s also interesting that the rest of the car has remained in stock condition. The engine bay shows very little in the way of detailing, and the seller doesn’t mention anything, really, about any modifications or mechanical repairs. The L84 / 350-equipped Corvette is fairly standard as it relates to equipment, and clearly on the lower end of the desirability scale in terms of equipment. But that should make it a fairly easy car to live with, and given it’s clearly not stock in the cabin, you won’t mind the fact (maybe) that the original air cleaner is gone. The seller claims that despite being in the garage for 18 years, that it runs “…great.”
Don’t you ever want to talk to the owner that oversaw these custom touches and ask what they were going for? All I can figure is that when this style of modifications was all the rage, a Corvette owner was tired of being left out of all the fun. So they took it upon themselves to take a page from the van-tastic crowd and mix it up a bit, stopping short of adding portholes and painting a mural on the side of the Corvette. Of course, why not take it all the way? The asking price seems fair to me if the condition underneath is as sound as the seller claims, and I’d love to see this one resurface with a half-naked woman riding a unicorn while throwing a pitchfork at the moon airbrushed onto the side. Would you customize it further or return it stock?
Epic?? You mean puke don’t you?
How about epuke?
Theres a reason why there’s no bids, even the neighborhood Pimp cringed when he looked inside! 😄
Those 70’s days are gone and being from the 70’s that interior looks like the mid to late 60’s bring it back to Stock and let. The good times roll on 👍
Most of the 60’s took place in the 70’s
A good upholstery shop could fix it . Price is reasonable, why not ?
Is the price still “reasonable” when u redo the whole interior, door panels and all?
Maybe……..
Back in the day when this was a high dollar used car I was a dumb kid who wanted a Corvette. I remember going to several Corvette specialty dealerships in the big city who catered only to the plastic pig.
What stands out was a tan 76/77 like this. It was on the lot and was $1500 cheaper than a comparable there. Seems the color was a hard sell. The particular car was clean and no apparent issues otherwise nothing spectacular.
The salesman said a woman bought it new. I like a deal but I was quickly out. I didn’t want a chicks car.
What a waste of money. GM made more than 46,000 Corvettes for the 76 model year. You can find a stock one in beautiful shape for about $12,000. Looks like Superfly owned this pig.
There is no L84 engine the choices are L48 with 180 hp or L82 with 210 hp. The 76 Corvette was one of the lowest horsepower Corvettes built and in excellent condition the car might be worth $12,000 so there is very little room to clean it up. Interior trim kits are available but it’s a few thousand dollars to make the car look correct.
You’re completely right!! Never heard of a L 84!!! Did not exist! L48. Standard and high perf L82
I know. I had one in 1976
That could be the Budget Spyker
proof positive that ugly doesn’t improve with age.
My first thought was “I’ll be in a coffin long enough some day. I don’t want to ride around in one now.”
I assume the original owner of this attended many key parties back in the day.
The whole interior will set you back about $2500.00 AND some work on YOUR part. So that said, don’t want to spend some time, don’t buy a car that needs work. Simple. Pay the premium for a “restored” car, that you don’t know the quality of what was done. These crepe hangers on these sites truly break me up! “Oh it’s not a perfect original, numbers matching, one of 12 built, worth $75K, and priced to sell at $4500.00” AND they will always offer 1/2 of the asking price, because they may have to wash it!
Red interior, fleshy exterior conquest machine: The Diabolical Biological.
If it wasnt for that interior we’d all be whining about the luggage rack.
I had the luggage rack on all of mine. You couldn’t get much in the little storage area behind the seats , especially if you had the T-tops off and stored there. My complaint is that hideous color. Nothing about it says sports car !
I know I would.
Regardless of whether you like or do not like that unique “velour treatment”, one thing for sure; It must have cost some serious money back in the day.
I bet the interior smells like sex, shame, and Auqa Velva.
…and your point is… what? Hai Karate was popular back then too.
Don’t get a sudden attack of morality. That’s how you become your parents.
Yes, and taking jokes too seriously is how you become Buzz Killington (look it up).
Looks like a 70s bathroom from the playboy mansion where even the toilet seat was covered in this crap. (pun intended)
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Sold for:
US $7,200.00
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sold for 6k
I guess $4k for a new interior and the engine bay needs attention and who knows what else.
I have a ’77 with a 400cu motor (and original), new carpet, new radio,calipers/rotors, new aluminum radiator, rebuilt carb and more. It’s a good driver and I’d let it go for $10k.
Hey Lee where u located? Im in South Carolina
R U interested in a trade?
I’m in NE Ohio. I’ll post my Vette in the classified section of Hagerty for you in a few days. Sorry no trades.
Where did you see that it sold for $6K?
It clearly says that it sold for $7,200.
Still, the most unique thing about a 1976 is that it was the only Corvette with a Vega steering wheel.
And it was the slowest Vette ever!
Wrong. 1976 with L-82, 4-speed and FE-7 suspension was a pretty nice ride in 1976. I would be happy to have that set-up today. Look at some 80-82 Corvettes, especially the ones bound for California to find a true slug.
I should have said 76 had the least hp.
I’m a big 70s guy, can’t love it if doesn’t have an 8 track in it, day 2 wheels etc, but I never liked those interiors, even back then, it would go back to original and add the 8 track in
Really, an 8 track? When you can get an original looking AM/FM with Bluetooth so you can talk hands-free on the phone, and have a wireless hook-up to your MP3 player.
Did that exist in 1976? AM radio was common, AM/FM was just becoming popular, 8 track tape players were common, and in keeping with the CB radio boom manufacturers offered an AM/FM/CB radio on many models. Corvettes were problematic for two-way radios because the fiberglass body doesn’t work with most antennas.
FM radio was common well before 1976.
Not common. Until the mid70s AM radio was the rule, but people were discovering the superior sound quality of FM stereo. Thanks to FM radio, “album cuts” became popular as AM radio adhered to a “no song longer than 3:05” paradigm. You weren’t going to hear “Free Bird” or “Do You Feel Like We Do” on AM. There were outliers like “Stairway to Heaven” and “Hey Jude”, but they were played when the DJ needed a rest stop. To be fair, the earliest car I can remember with FM was a 1965 or 1966 Impala. There was nothing on FM but classical music.
In 1963, the early production Vettes still used the AM wonderbar radio as per previous years. In mid-year, that was changed to an AM-FM radio, and that is the ONLY radio Corvette ever offered thereafter. GM first offered AM-FM in 63 on all the divisions. AM-FM stereo followed a couple of years later.
Wouldn’t touch that without a UV light inspection first
Actually, if you think about it, what about ANY used car with a cloth interior? – most were used a heck of a LOT more than this!
No more cracked plastic or vinyl to worry about,
Is the hood insulation there to protect the paint? Could never figure out the reason for that silly option that could even be a fire hazard!
FM started about 1969 or 70…..WABX in Detroit was a early FM Rock station I used to listen to, sucked when they went off the air around the early 80s.
WNEW-FM out of NYC in the late sixties. Can still hear some of the DJs I listened to on SiriusXM today. They call it classic rock now…it was just rock back then.
Earlier than that! My 63 Split Window had an AM-FM radio.
Even worse, today’s AM & FM has a lot less music of ANY kind, the stations are weaker, & all stations on AM get reduced power overnite & power is restored at around 7AM – at least here. WTH.
If Milner tried to cruise on a fri nite these days, he would be lucky if anyone(lot less people “hanging out”) looked up from their phones, & if he could pick up even 1 station that didn’t have 5 minutes of drug commercials with wildly speeded up disclosures at the end, let alone 60s period correct music, instead of saturated talk radio.
Milner had XERB on, a Mexican powerhouse station with a huge coverage area both on ground wave and skywave. The local station that the Wolfman was on was one that probably ran 1000-5000 watts daytime and 250-500 watts at night. Here near Pittsburgh, WKHB AM 620 runs 5000 watts daytime, 500 watts twilight, and 85 watts nighttime.
In 1973 when I went to school in Columbus WCOL on 1230 was the dominant Top 40 station, but WNCI-FM was beginning to take their audience. WCOL-FM played rock artists.
When I graduated from High School in 1971, three of my buddies and I drove from Ohio to Los Angeles for our senior trip in a 1963 Chevy pickup with a homemade cap.
Listened to Carol King, Doors, and James Taylor on an 8 track all the way. Found an AM/FM adapter for the 8 track at a flee market while I was there. Nice change from listening to the few tapes we had.
That interior looks like an eighties interior! That wants to make you 🤮!
70s Van interior.
I keep my am/fm 8 track hooked up for a conversation piece, tape deck actually plays very well, but I have a hidden FM/CD XM Bluetooth w iPod also in my glove compartment, boat remote in the console, XM mounted below the factory radio, 1000 watts voice amp, 1000 watt Rockford Fosgate bass amp, 2 12s Rockford Fosgate in the trunk, Infinity Kappas in the rear deck 6x9s an 61/2 rounds in pods on the floor in the footwell, I’m an overage sound buff, the car does it to me, and it’s all hidden
The interior looks like a cheap cat house and the exterior is the definition of “Bland.” Still, it’s cheap enough and you can always improve the performance some. Like some of the comments above, I’d spend a little more and find one with a stock interior.
All these comments about the radio, when it’s useless without the missing ignition shielding ( fiberglass firewall ) and why do people insist on giving the engine a case of COPD with these undersized air cleaners ? Obviously someone didn’t have a clue to performance machinery, any Corvette with an automatic trans. is the first giveaway, Seeing too many of these here !
I said it on BaT the other day and got nothing but hate. I’ll try again here. Wagon conversion!
Id enjoy it as it sits.
And all the black light and uv light cracks are ridiculous, physics confirms that unless it was individual solo activities theres not enough space to get your freak on in thar car…
Back in 1978 my bother (who was married for 7 years at the time with a 6-year-old daughter) tried to sell me (his single younger brother) on buying a van and turning it into a “shaggin wagon”. It was his dream, not mine, so I ultimately special ordered a 79 Mustang Cobra (silver and black – with the snake on the hood). It was a much better buy even though the 302 had only 140 ponies (250 lb./feet of torque). I never regretted this decision.