Here's Why This 1982 Corvette was the Last of the C3 Generation - YouTube

it's time for show-off Sunday, where everyone has a chance to show off their

own car, and here's this week's winner, hey Scotty just want to say thanks for

having me on the show appreciate you give me the opportunity

to show my 1982 Corvette, I feel it's a special car

it's the last year of the C3 body style, Chevy was busy work on a new

body style, totally transformed for 1984, there was Corvette built in

1983, in 1984 they introduced the C4, so that's why this car is

special, it's the last of its breed with a few surprises, this is one of 25,407

and in 1982 for $22,000 you could own one of these, for the first time since

1965 this Corvette's 350 small block was fitted with the computer

control twin throttle body crossfire injection and only optional with

automatic turbo hydra-matic 4-speed only, the car has 200 horsepower 285

foot pounds of torque, nine to one compression, the car moves it

was geared for low end ratio and it's got a lot of bottom end torque, okay so here's the

car, let me show you a couple of things about, it well I guess one of the things

that you know making 82 what an 82 really is, is the fact that back in 82 we

had T tops, T tops are kind of cool because it

gives you the freedom of having a

convertible without really having a convertible, so you could drive around

take the tops off and kind of enjoy the weather when it's nice out, let me show

you the engine here,

starts right up, all original, it's had one paint job

which I did about two years ago, otherwise the

interior of the car is exactly as is on the factory

I mean the thing I really like about it the simplicity of what they did back in the day,

I mean if you look at it as pre-historic as you could be, I mean

you have straps holding in your car t-tops I mean there's not even any

velcro or buttons that hold it down, so if you drive them back here your T-tops

slide around, which is you know it's kind of cool,

you know I mean interior is, every gauge is working, everything was the only thing I

did was I changed the radio because I like listened to you know music

everything else is the way it was from the day it came out of the factory

which is kind of cool,

cars running on 57,000, I got it in had 53,000, so I put

some miles on it, ok guys so one of the things I'd like the show about the car is in 1982

as in all vets, they have these you know these hidden lights which is really

really cool,

so this is what you know really makes a Corvette what a Corvette is, all these little futuristic things that make it really cool,

so one of the cool things that made me want to buy this car when I bought it a

few years ago was, I knew it was well maintained and well taken care of

obviously, but what I came to find which is really really cool is that I have the

original owners manual, I mean original from the factory I mean

I'm the second owner so this guy really took care of this car it's been

garage kept car I have the actual 1982 Chevy new car warranty paper that was

bought from the dealer, from the original owner, kept all the paperwork I have the

original build sheet, so this car is definitely well-maintained and I do the

same I keep this car in the garage, it's a weekend car I didn't put too many

miles on it, but you know just having stuff like this and being able to look

at the history of this stuff, you know it's really really something else it's

like a time capsule, yeah I really dig it man I really like the whole idea of the Corvette

I like the whole idea of the 80s and how everything was just kind of

put together for its time and era, just a time capsule,

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