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The Rarest Of The Rare: The Story Of How The Only Existing 1983 Corvette Managed To Miss The Scrapper!


The Rarest Of The Rare: The Story Of How The Only Existing 1983 Corvette Managed To Miss The Scrapper!

Until I actually got to Bowling Green, I wasn’t aware that an actual 1983 Chevrolet Corvette actually existed. Seriously, I didn’t. I knew about the aborted test run of cars, and I knew about the “Corvette Chaser” Caprice station wagons (though, they weren’t exactly mules as they were support vehicles, like I first thought. You stuff tools and a jack into a C4 Corvette and let me know how it goes!) But inside of the museum, precariously close to where the sinkhole opened up a couple of years back, is the one and only C4 Corvette with a 1983 VIN number, on wheels only seen on the preproduction test cars, in blank white. If it weren’t for the sign telling you otherwise, you’d dismiss it and move on. However, by sheer and dumb luck, this ’83 managed to miss a date with the scrapper, survived being parked out behind the Bowling Green assembly plant, at one point was the derelict car with a tarp over it and didn’t move until a new plant manager took notice of it. The fact that it didn’t get squished like a bug is due solely to one man…and his cowboy boots. We can’t make that story up. The Corvette Museum recently put out the full history on the rarest of the rare Corvettes, which you can check out below:


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4 thoughts on “The Rarest Of The Rare: The Story Of How The Only Existing 1983 Corvette Managed To Miss The Scrapper!

  1. Charles Bendig

    Funny GM let one go at Barrett-Jackson a few years back. From the GM Heritage Center Collection.

    Ya’ll can contact them and find out.

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