Have you found the Corvette in this picture yet? My mom has launched a post-retirement career as a home organizer, so suffice it to say, I did not grow up in a household where this could have happened and I’m always a little baffled how it does. This ’70 Stingray has been on shelf duty in Costa Mesa, California since 1985; now it’s ready to move on to its own post-retirement career. Find it here on eBay with no reserve.
You’d expect a seller with the eBay handle “backyardfind” to know what to do with a car like this, and you would not be disappointed. In addition to extensively chronicling its extraction from that garage of horrors up there, he or she has also gotten the Corvette to a carwash and detailed its condition inside, outside, and underneath.
This is when a no-reserve auction is exciting, because this Corvette shows a ton of potential. It’s got the base 350 V8 and a Turbo-Hydramatic, so there’s nothing terribly unusual about its spec, but it’s all there in good, unmolested condition. After some minor work, including completing the freeze plug replacement that we are told is the reason the car was parked in the first place, it is said to start, idle, go through the gears, and brake.
While the exterior has been repainted once in the original Mulsanne Blue and could stand to be painted again, the interior looks quite clean and very usable. The odometer shows just 673 miles, having rolled over just before being taken off the road. The circa-1982 replacement cassette deck is a nice nod to the car’s immediate pre-garage life.
I’m glad the owner remembered that this car was buried in his garage! If the bidding stays competitive, this could be a really great find for someone to get running and do some preservation work on fairly easily. If you see a garage disaster like this and fantasize about what’s buried underneath, here’s proof that your fantasies can pretty spectacularly come true!
that looks like what my wife is always trying to do to my motorcycles
looks like a great car when done
Is this one more indication that a lot of No Americans might just have too much stuff?
Or it could also be that Homes nowadays don’t actually have anywhere near enough STORAGE too?
I’m not buying the garage find
Looks staged
All the stuff is modern
I’ve dug out my share
Ask me how I know
DD
The looped heater hose is a bad sign. I’ve replaced the heater cores on these and they are no picnic. There are worse ones to do out there but not by much. The master cylinder looks fresh so that’s a plus.
I don’t know if that scene in the garage is real or staged but, I’m pretty sure those tires are 40 years old so if they’ve been on this car since new it’s been sitting somewhere for awhile.
It’s funny how people will let a seemingly minor repair allow a car to sit for years. A friend has a very nice daily driver S10 pick-up that was parked for a failed fuel pump. It’s going on seven years now. The truck now has weeds up to the door handles and the bed, removed to access the tank, is sitting on saw horses along side.
Good possibility that the failed fuel pump is just a bad connection on top of the tank. Check with your local parts store for a $15 fix. Worth a try.
You have never visited my place. :-) I use all my stuff, but I don’t have enough room.
I have nothing against the 70 Vette, but even though they handle better than the earlier years, my love is for the 63-67 Corvettes. I owned a 64 Coupe, and it has been 47 years since I sold it and my wife still has not forgiven me. And no, it isn’t that simple, she wants me to find “that” car. I am still searching.
I would buy it to enjoy. Even with the automatic, it would be a nice cruiser.
Am I the only one tired of people staging or worse, photoshopping cars to look like barn finds?
Throwing a clean blanket and new and probably empty Rubbermaid container on the hood of a car is a pretty pathetic attempt at simulating a barn find. If the seller is willing to fraudulently display the cars history like this, would you trust anything else they claim?
At best this is a clutter find.
Jay M, I consider myself an expert on clutter, and from my own life experience, that isn’t what it looks like to me either. There isn’t enough dust, and no spiders, and there has to be at least one thing perched on the car, so that if it fell, it would damage the car irreparably. :-)
What is that yellow item in the garage on the left side of the Vette?
Are you referring to the kayak?
Rare Rare Rare GM had a strike that year not as many 1970 Corvettes were sold compared to other years
I thought ’70 Corvette’s would’ve had the aluminum finned Corvette valve covers, and aluminum intake, like the Z-28 had. Maybe it was just the LT-1 motor in the ‘Vett’s, assuming there were lower small block options.
Can a chebby guy bring me up date, since I’m just an old Ford junkie.
I can’t say for sure, but back in 1967, I had a 64 with the 300 hp 327, and it had painted valve covers. One of my buddies had the 365 hp top option engine, and it had the finned valve covers.
At least he is not trying to sell it as a 673 orig mile, no documentation, car! Kudos on putting the 100K in front of it.
Great color, power windows and AC, all very nice options AND no luggage carrier!!!! If it were a 4 speed I’d have a bid in.