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<blockquote data-quote="rfh928" data-source="post: 181317" data-attributes="member: 5565"><p>Others have already provided some great advice on your questions...I'll just add to #s 6 and 7 based on my experience. I just sold my 98 C5 in the summer and ordered a new C7 which I absolutely love. I bought my 98 at age 6 from a sports car/exotic car dealer in London, and he'd imported it from Florida. Which was great in that I knew it had never been winter driven. I guess your question #1 also falls here...I bought it in October and did get it for about 10% below what I expected, because he didn't want to have it in inventory for another 6 months. When I sold it (privately) this summer, there was no issue on the US heritage...in fact I put that as a benefit in the ad that it came from the southern US. The 98 was silver...overall my favourite vehicle colour (my first Vette was a 78 Silver Anniversary with the 2 tone silver/metallic grey, although for the C7 I've always liked them in grey so that's what I ordered for it). The London dealer I bought it from mentioned that in future he was only going to buy Vette's in the core colours...white/black/silver/grey...he had 2 others there at the time...one I remember was some odd blue/purple they had for the C5 and the other might have been burgandy...and he said he'd probably lose money on those two as most people wanted the basic colours. He also said that although 3/4 of new Vette buyers back then...and up to the C7...bought auto's...for used models most of his clients anyway wanted a manual. That's what my 3 Vette's have been, and why the C7 will be my last unless GM reintroduces a manual in the C8 and beyond. Good luck...hope you find what you're looking for <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rfh928, post: 181317, member: 5565"] Others have already provided some great advice on your questions...I'll just add to #s 6 and 7 based on my experience. I just sold my 98 C5 in the summer and ordered a new C7 which I absolutely love. I bought my 98 at age 6 from a sports car/exotic car dealer in London, and he'd imported it from Florida. Which was great in that I knew it had never been winter driven. I guess your question #1 also falls here...I bought it in October and did get it for about 10% below what I expected, because he didn't want to have it in inventory for another 6 months. When I sold it (privately) this summer, there was no issue on the US heritage...in fact I put that as a benefit in the ad that it came from the southern US. The 98 was silver...overall my favourite vehicle colour (my first Vette was a 78 Silver Anniversary with the 2 tone silver/metallic grey, although for the C7 I've always liked them in grey so that's what I ordered for it). The London dealer I bought it from mentioned that in future he was only going to buy Vette's in the core colours...white/black/silver/grey...he had 2 others there at the time...one I remember was some odd blue/purple they had for the C5 and the other might have been burgandy...and he said he'd probably lose money on those two as most people wanted the basic colours. He also said that although 3/4 of new Vette buyers back then...and up to the C7...bought auto's...for used models most of his clients anyway wanted a manual. That's what my 3 Vette's have been, and why the C7 will be my last unless GM reintroduces a manual in the C8 and beyond. Good luck...hope you find what you're looking for :) [/QUOTE]
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