From: (Eric Youngblood)
Subject: Re: Old Corvettes / Low insurance?
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In article <1993Apr15.011805.28485@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, swr2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (SCOTT WARREN ROSANDER) writes:
|> In article <C5Csux.Fn1@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, gdhg8823@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (George Hei
|> nz) writes:
|> >After too many years of school I'm finally graduating and getting a real
|> >job.  Of course I am trying to make plans of how to spend all this extra
|> >money.  Right now I have an 89 accord, a good car, but not real sporty &
|> >I was thinking of selling it in about two years and dropping around
|> >$20k on a sports car of some kind.  After thinking about it, I may have a
|> >better idea -- I'll keep the Accord until it drops and buy the car I've
|> >always wanted -- a Corvette Stingray. My reasoning is that $8000 (accord)+
|> >$8000 (corvette) =$16000 is less than what I would spend anyway.
|> >
|> >Basically, I'm thinking of a late 70's, early 80's for around $7-$10k.
|> >My question is, what are good years to consider (for reliability, looks,
|> >horsepower -- in that order, believe it or not, horsepower is not a main
|> >concern, if I want to go fast, I get on my motorcycle) and what are
|> >good prices?
|> >
|> >Also, what would insurance look like?  I'm male, single, 23 (I might
|> >wait until I'm 25 to get the car = lower insurance). Would the fact that
|> >I mainly drive the other car lower it?  Is there some type of "classic
|> >car" or "rarely driven" insurance class for driving it under 10k miles
|> >per year?
|> >
|>     My dad has a 66 vette and its on what you say 'classic insurance'.
|>     Basically what that means is that it has restricted amount of driving
|>     time, which basically means it cant be used as an every day car and would
|>     probably suit your needs for limited mileage.
|> -- 


In addition to restricted mileage, many classic insurance carriers also require
that the vehicle be garaged when not in use.

$0.02

Ericy


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