1968 Chevrolet Corvette L88 427 Coupe Muscle Car Of The Week Video Episode  

One of the most beautiful cars ever made!

I had a 68 I bought when I was 19 now I'm 65 what an amazing time to be young. Love these videos Kevin is the perfect guy to do them!

L88's were monsters!💯

Still have my 1969 L-71 3x2 Holley 427/435. Bought it in 1970 and the car has been simply awesome to own and drive. IMHO these are still the most "fun" cars on the market. They certainly aren't high tech but when it comes to pure driving enjoyment, they are hard to beat.

I found this channel three days ago and I have watched 30 videos so far. I have no life, so I should be all caught up by Sunday.

My uncle worked for GM in Michigan and used to drive new cars up here to see us in Sudbury. One time he showed up with an amazing 70s Corvette and took me for a spin. I was 16 years old and was blown away by what it could do. I can't imagine that 427 version! I'm sure it could get up over 170mph. Great Video!

The absolutely perfect Corvette, right down to the gorgeous blue and the red line tires.

This is the one that made my hands shake i was 17 years old . one just like it changed my entire perspective about cars . I was hooked for life. LoL

These Brothers have real taste!Not seen a bad car yet.....

oh maan this so awesome to look at. i believe this is one of the most underrated youtube channels regarding muscle cars. keep up the good work guys and bless you.

Nice video. I remember a kid in my HS used to brag on his Dad's 67 Vette L-88. When i got him to show me i saw the Tri-power iron head 427. Asked him who said it was an L-88. He said his Dad and i just let it go, nice car. Couldn't call his Dad a liar......just mis-informed..😉

Heard about his car when I owned my first 1978, but never saw one until now. Thanks for sharing :)

Love that color and that Corvette!!! is a Dream Car even Today! The best of the best in design from GM Golden Years!

in the process of restoring a 69 corvette. thanks for sharing.

Outstanding Phenomenal Awesome I could go on . Always wanted the L88 '68 . That 427 was just Tits 😊!! I had a '68 convertible with the 327 and that was plenty fast ! It was a bit "rare" itself with factory a/c and a 3-speed Saginaw manual transmission. I could do 60-65 in first , 110 in second and by the time I hit third , I was gone . I got I up to 150 once out on highway 41

I bought my 71 corvette, back in 1982 . Still working on it . I’ll be putting a small block 427 engine soon . Can’t wait to start enjoying it again . I also have to mention that , before I bought my 71 , I had a change to buy a 1960 corvette, fuel injection... I wish that I would have bought that one instead . Still happy with my 71 !!!!

A huge thank you for showing us, this superb original manual transmission Corvette. Very appreciated.

top of the food chain as far as Corvettes go! Very nice!

Freshining up my L88 engine for my 1970 Vette. Roller cammed, stroked out to 496.

Gorgeous car,wow 550 hp,what a beast.😍❤

Pretty cool, I have one 68 the same color 327/350HP Turbo 350 auto. Raced and beat a new stock 1979 Z28 302 4 speed once , he was a car length ahead and when I hit second at 60 I jumped past him and left him in the dust. Cant beat the late 60s and early 70s cars. It broke the tires lose at 60 hitting second gear. Fun Fun.

A friend of mine bought one in the early 70's for $2800!!!! The guy he bought it from, sold it because it didn't have A/C. I KNOW he wishes he kept it!!!

Zora Duntov the engineer that produced the first corvette back in 1953 and remained with GM until he retired in 1967. He was very upset with the new 68 corvette and said all true sportscars have mechanical gages. The 68 came with a really stupid vacuum tank that operated the pop-up headlights and wiper cowl. The rubber hoses that snake their way through the 68 body would get hard and crack after time which caused a lot of vacuum problems for those who couldn't figure out why the cars headlight would not open, or wiper cowl stuck. I have owned five corvettes in my life and bought a new 1970 454 big block that ran the quarter mile in the high 12's back in the day. I got rid of that car and returned to the C2 corvettes 63/67. I have been certified in corvette restoration by Bloomington Gold Corvettes since 1985. Today at 78 years of age I have a 63 roadster with an early LS1 engine. Just my two cents worth about the 1968 corvette.

The 69 L88 is my favorite Vette out of them all. Love the 67-68 L88 cars too but the 69 L88 is King of Corvettes in my book

I owned a 71 with a 350, Thrush headers, Hurst competition plus linkage , BF Goodrich TA radials, Bilstein shocks, THAT in my opinion, was the perfect Vette, good power, superb handling , and quick shifts

I subscribed to Hot Rod magazine in 1986, and I remember they ran an article on one of these back then. I also remember an article about a '70 Hemi Cuda convertible. These cars were valuable in the mid-80s, but we are talking about tens of thousands of dollars (I believe they mentioned the Cuda being worth a whopping $25K!) rather than, even taking inflation into account, them appreciating to hundreds of thousands of dollars, or millions.

In reality. It had a round 550 horses. Worked for GM in Detroit! 🤠🐎🇺🇸

Awesome

Loved the Mako Shark body style!

You can have your Chargers, Mustangs, Camaros, etc, etc. The C3 L88 Corvette aka my favorite all sports/muscle car.

There were quite a few more L-88 engines made than cars. You could buy an L-88 long or short block from a dealer for not much more than an L-71. I bought an L-88 short block for my '68 SS 396/375 Camaro in 1971 for about $700 and picked up a complete pair of open chamber aluminum heads for a couple hundred bucks. It didn't have the snob appeal of an L-88 Corvette but was just as crazy fast!

Best looking Vette of all the generations imo. They can keep the C8+.

Performance guys at that time knew that the L-88 was fantastic. I remember hearing them talk about it.

Our family had a new 1968 with the track tops my mother drove this car back and forth from Annapolis to Baltimore for more then a decade she revered to it ad her five thousand dollar bath tub the tops leaked all the time 327 - 350 - muncei four speed car ! Thanks for the memories

Great review of an awesome, rare MUSCLEcar.

specil i had 1972 lt1 magnificent gm motors ,best cars i drove lt1 factory 400 hp excel.lent .

Awesome piece of history! I'm sure Jay Leno would love to have this car in his collection, if he doesn't have one already.

I personally like the L88 Hood-Scoop when it's Put on a Camaro, I had one on a 1980 Z28. Loved It.

If you lowered the compression a notch and did some modifications to the L88 you got up to 650 H.P and very steerable.. .and at that point as a strees racer it was unbeatable......

Joseph Monaco Joseph Monaco 0 seconds ago A 1968 427 with a 4 speed Muncie M-21 Tranny and a 4:11;1 Posi is my all around my favorite Corvette, Next to the 1967 L-88 2nd generation L-88 like the one that was in the 1969 all Aluminum ZL-1 motor. But this is the cleanest, prettiest 1968 I've seen. How much are you asking for it? Please email me! With the 12:5:1 TRW DOME TOP Pistons and that 600.intake and 600 exhaust Solid Lifter Came and Aluminum heads that were ported and CC'd for only these engines, they were really putting out about 650 HP. Even the 1967 L-88 1st generation L-88 with 540 intake and 600 exhausrt solid lifter came was putting out about 600 HP also. No cars on the road even today can touch them except for maybe the ZR-1 427 that went in the Lingenfelder Corvette or Camaro. Those were the good old days. Thanks Joseph

Memories, Back in the day I had a BRG 1968 427, 435 hp with side pipes A true beast.

Love these surviver issues

THE 435 HAD SOLID LIFTERS, TOO.

best looking corvette ever. my dad had a 68, and a white 59 with gray concave body panels. I was five- years- old, and i was frightened when he told me it drove itself. he was talking about the cruise control.

I never owned a corvette when I was around 19/20 years old. I then owned a 1967 chevelle SS with a 375 hp 396. I loved the car. Spoiled right off the bat to the big block, I always wanted to install a L88 engine but never had the chance or money. I got married instead. 😅

Its design to me at least is very futuristic for its time holds up styling wise to me.

Another great video Kevin. Years ago I remember hearing the "tales" of the L-88 Corvettes and one was that the 67 Stingrays were more streetable with their infamous overheating issues because of the cars bodywork. The More square nosed 67 could have the radiator stand up straight getting more and better airflow through it whereas in the 68 and 69 because of the new sloped nose the radiators were sloped back allowing more air to flow over them than through them. I know many guys that had regular big block 68 and 69 Corvettes that had the same overheating issues in city driving. Was this issue more of just a side effect of the cars new styling causing a radiator mounting position versus just the hot running engine itself.

This is an absolutely amazing Corvette and the presentation of facts and information about the car was definitely on point. I just came across this RU-vid channel via a redirect from the CovSport article and I am so glad that I did. I have viewed several of the videos that you posted on your channel and am glad to add my name to the list of subscribers.

Gorgeous! and the right color too!

Great inside information!

Totally badass that's what I think

The L88 started right up. The suspension ain't that bad.The brakes work real good.the cooling is a bit of a chore.Buy one if you can.

Can’t buy one new, but one can build it out like a factory one.

The narrator was incorrect on the number of 1967 L88's built. Only 20, not 30 as he stated. Total L88 Production was 216 Units....1967 (20) 1968 (80) 1969 (116) He also stated it had a solid lifter cam; well so did the L71 427/435hp engine. In fact all the producton HP Chevy engines used the same solid lifter cam P.N.3863143 (i.e.L71,L72,L78,LS6) which was a .500" valve lift cam on both int & exh. The L88 cam #3925536 had .540" int. .560" valve lift. It was not a streetable Cam and was meant to be used with an Open Exhaust System (headers) The L88 Engines also used a Transistorized Ignition System(no points) which could also be ordered on other HP Chevy Engines. Some Accurate Dynos have gotten as much as 540 BHP ...

this was the Dodge Demon of it's day lol

Please do a video on 1969 Corvette ZL-1. They only made 2.

Nice.

100%pure BADASS

I love those cars... sexy machines!

I have a woody right now ! what a sweet car .....

Put a modern 3 or 4 core alluminum radiator and she will be just fine around town :)!!!

Thanks for telling me what the t tops are all about I never know that it was a traeger top and I own a Corvette and I am related to Louie Chevrolet mine is not a like the ones you show it's a 1977 L48 but it has a lot of things that no Corvette ever had on one

It's interesting that they rated it 430 hp to discourage novice buyers. Any non-car guy looking for power would have bought the 435 hp option, thinking he was getting more for less money.

Beautiful

Two words and I say this with all the respect in the world....... HEMI KILLER!!!

My dad’s best friend was one of the “lucky 80.’ My dad HATED that car (it was red, his friend used to insist on loaning it to him). That it required Sunoco high-octane added insult to injury (he was a Marathon dealer).

This is awesome.

I find it difficult to stop drooling over this Corvette. Amazingly difficult.. I made the mistake once a bitching about how restricted the Corvette engines are due to emissions.the owner of the Corvette I was talking about was sitting next to me and told me come on we're stepping outside. I thought I was in for a fight. He handed me the keys and told me drive it. This was Arlington MA.this gentleman took me on the road with me driving I'm doing 50 miles an hour in a 35 zone at 1000 RPM He tells me you can shift into 2nd gear anytime. I brought it around the onto what we call route 2. Which has an amazingly high-level steep climb of about 6 miles. I laid into that Corvette shifted gears and drove back to where I came from. I got out of that 400 cubic 1978 Corvetteand had to shake this man's hand and completely apologize for every word I ever said absolutely the most amazing ride I've ever had in my life even to this day, even to this day..

I learned the true meaning of a “T” top. Thank you, sir.

totally cool vette glad to know it has some very nice friends to hang out with

This And Also The 1970 LS-7 454/460 Corvette Were The True Kings!

The same motor I had in my SS Nova copo L88 4 speed with a 411 Gear in the rear end and yes it was very cold blooded but super fast really fast 💯💯👍👍😎

Superb ride.

I'd love to have the 2 million that car is worth.

Love that hood

Fantastic channel. Very tasteful classics. Subbed!!

WOW!!!!!

Cool new 7000 now 1million

The L88 was rated around 560 to 600 horsepower

The 427 425 and 435 versions ALSO had a solid cam about 520 lift but the L-88 was MUCH more radical and no the 12.5 isn't easy to live with, even in those days you probably needed Sunoco 260. I heard they deleted the heater, is that true?

These are amazing engines period. Better Than the 454 all day.

I like it!

It's a full race engine 12-1 compression 7/16 push rods

Love it!

They wer like the 2019 ZR1 😮😮😮monsters look at what they cost now

That would be the only car that would be close to the ZR1 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Im nota Vette Guy persay , My fav cars were Mustangs mainly 69/70 but also love Mopar 69/70 & Camaro & Firebird 69/70 ........ but.......... THat Vette coulodnt look Any better than it does. Just beautiful, stylish, classy, fast prestiege. Yeh, def. Nice

These motors are not to be babied they scream to be run and run fast 💯💯👍👍😎

Anyone who calls this car a piece of crap needs to have their eyes checked and head checked while they are there.

Wow 😮

PORSCHE LAWYERS ARE WATCHING

I'll trade one of my kidneys for that car.

Beautiful car. Not really a vette fan. But so in love with that body style

Awesome Car! wish I had the $$$ to buy one. Do you have any "65 Olds 442 info - used to owe one.

That's the one...

Who are the brothers thats what we all want to know.

You have a new subscriber dude Your videos are awesome

Bad ass

wow.....

We just bought one😍