Chevy Told Dealers Not to Sell the L88 Corvette. The Buyers Who Insisted Are Now Millionaires.

The graduation present was supposed to be simple. Carl Schettler stood at a salesman's desk in Magna, Utah, on November 15, 1967, with his father beside him, and asked for the one box on the order form the salesman had every reason to talk him out of. Checking it added $947.90 to the bill. Then it started taking things away. No radio. No heater. No air conditioning. No choke, which in a Utah January means the car will not start properly. We cover why Chevrolet printed 430 horsepower for the L88 when the cheaper L71 was advertised at 435, and how picking the right engine speed made a 540 to 580 horsepower racing engine look like poor value on paper. Zora Arkus-Duntov and the loophole he found in the option book. Just 216 cars across three model years. Don Yenko winning the GT class at Sebring. And the Rally Red 1967 that hammered at $3.5 million in Scottsdale. If it were you at that desk, do you sign, or take the sane engine? And if you were a Ford man or a Mopar man that winter, what would you have ordered instead? #L88 #Corvette #ZoraArkusDuntov #C2Corvette #DetroitIron