The CRAZIEST and RAREST Corvette Ever Made - The 1967 L88 Corvette 

My next door neighbor in Los Altos Ca always smoked cigars. He had a 1967 Corvette, L88 roadster, with side pipes and Walker Chamber Pipes, which were merely dimpled metal tubes. It was black on black. I was in high school and he would wake me up when he started it. He also had 2 1962 Vettes in Roman Red. And a 57 Bel Air black and silver, with 327/4sp and two small lawn chairs for back seats. And he had the 3rd 1953 Vette... in parts. And he had at least 3 fuel injection systems. And he had a 3 barrel 900cfm Holley DP carb on one car but he took it off 'cause they had issues. We became good friends, he was 10 yrs older than me, so 27 in 1967, . His sweetie went nuts-oo and they divorced. He had to sell everything. Except the house. Kept one 62' Vette. In 1999 I sold my 1959 Vette that I had boought from my dad in 1982. (Dad bought it in 1966). And he sold his 62 to the same person, a friend from highschool. My neighbor was a Systems Designer. had a dozen patents in microwave and infrared, designed and installed entire cockpit array's in U2's and B58's. and other such things. He died a couple of years ago. Anyhow, that car was very cool. As for octane, I recall being at Foot Hill Expressway and Grant Rd and Regular gas was 103 octane and about 33 cents.

My best friend’s dad had a black C3 with a 427. His dad took me for a ride in it and he started from a standstill. He brake locked it and floored it. It was brutal. I still remember the transmission upshifting. Each time it would slam you back in the seat. 35 years later no car has ever scared me except that one.

Got to drive one when I was young. An experience I will never forget. L88 with unmuffled side pipes. Owner let me drive it like I stole it!

They were given to Apollo astronauts in the late 60s. Must have been a hell of a time to be alive! The most powerful rocket on earth, and the most powerful Corvette. I miss that America.

The C2 Fishtail Hardtop are the Greatest Corvette Stingrays.

i owned a '65 Roadster with the first BBC, the L87 396/425 HP engine...a baby L88 as it was. It was a super fun car and the girls loved it and it was pretty darn fast (I was a young Marine at the time in the early 70's but the car I owned as an 17/18 year old before I joined The Corps was a '70 Mach I with a Cleveland 351 4V engine that myself and my dad rebuilt/blueprinted and converted to a mech cam solid lifter car and pulled 480 HP on the dyno was actually faster). But the BBC vette with the offroad exhaust and the top off/down was an incredibly fun car, and though i have owned a 2018 Porsche GT2 RS and now drive a Ferrari F8 as my play car, the big block vert vette still holds a warm spot in my heart!

Friend had a L88 and took me for a ride, it was fast and boy did it have a rough firm ride.

My friends dad had a 67 with the big motor -- not the L88... We were teens in the 80's and would drool over it when he brought it out of the garage. Absolutely beautiful machine.

The most expensive Corvette to come to auction today is a 1967 L 88 Corvette red four-speed, 4 million us

20 mph faster than the Ferraris on the Mulsanne Straight

HORSEPOWER DEPO = this channel does 9 second stock looking CORVETTE`s = love a super fast stock looking car ! thank you .

LeMans😂😂 if you love cars the narrator made you crack up too.

Crazier than the horsepower numbers is the fact that according to The Hemmings Motor News, sometime prior to 1994, only about Twenty of these beasts were ever even built/sold

I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't check it on another sight... 550 from a 427 is insane.... a stock hemi was putting out 485 or so...

Love the accuracy with the exception of the production number which was 20. Last heard only 5 exist. Coolest Corvette ever!

The factory rating was done with cast iron manifolds they came with....and 430 was about what they made being choked so badly. The other 427 options were 390, 425 and 435 all using the same manifolds so their power outputs were all similar. The L88 DID make mid to high 500's when you put tuned headers and the side exhausts....so Chevy was telling the truth and playing a bit of gamesmanship at the same time.

That black L88 is the sexiest car I've ever seen!!

I COPO'ed a '66 L72, one of two built that year. Don Yenko bought the other one. Actually mine was 'one of one' as it was a coupe. The Yenco/Summers Vette was a roadster. There was a recall of all L72's which only amounted to removing the 450HP air cleaner decal and installing a 425HP decal. 1966 Vette L72/M22/K66/N14 side exhaust/N11/F41 susp./K66Ti transister ign./radio&heater delete/with 450hp decal on air cleaner/G81 4:11 posi/factory Isky gear drive cam.

I had a '68 427 4spd Roadster.....fun car and the body design was just SOOO cool!! And yes, all Corvettes are "Sports Cars" but the 427 (and later 454 versions) were ALSO "Muscle Cars!!

You should have made a detailed comparison with the all-aluminum ZL-1 427. I think it may have been even more expensive, I seem to recall $9000 but don't quote me. BTW I just looked it up and new it was just over $10k and that 2.6 MM price you quoted appears to have been for a ZL-1 (which is basically the all-aluminum L88) However the ZL-1 was open chamber and the L88 could be either closed or open. Turns out the original closed chamber could be made to make more HP. Don't quote me on any of this, I'm a 71 year old street racing Studebaker Super Lark guy.

I had a 67 427 390hp coupe 3.73 sears trans m22 tranny and transistor ignition. It ran a consistent 13.2 at 107mph . Everything was stock. You could take hubcaps and air cleaner off. Lost my first race burning too much coming out of the hole. Changed air pressure and came out at lower rpm. Never lost again in 3 years. Lebanon valley dragway. Wish i still had it!

I was 17 in 1979. There was a guy who was probably in his early 30s. He showed me and my friend how to change motors. We took the 427 tri power out of his green 67 roadster and put a used L88 motor in it. One day he was probably doing about 55 miles an hour and punched it in third gear. It twisted the rear axle spline off, taking the rear quarter with it! Hehehehe.

The L88 was rated at 430 HP at 5100 RPM for advertising purposes. Note the RPM, this was not false advertising.

Average person has NO IDEA that when you say L88 they need to stoop and bow, haha. We were too ignorant back then to even know what it was but I guarantee you that many 70 year olds today wish we'd have known about L88s back in the day!!

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I have driven my friend's silver 1968 L88 convertible to a car show and his white 1967 L88 coupe (known as the Flying Dutchman) back from the car show. Although fun to drive, they will quickly overheat in traffic. My 1969 coupe with the hydraulic lifter 427 is much more enjoyable to drive. Besides, driving a $3+ million car in city traffic with all the idiots on the road today is not a good idea.

My memory must have failed me, I thought they put a few all aluminum 427's in the 67, but these 67 L88's are my favorite car of all time, I think one of the best cars ever produced.

Great professional video. thanks 😊

Sport car.

As a kid I'd walk by the corvette and look in just to see the speedometer that said 160mph on it.

The silver '67 car with red interior does show someone installed a radio between 5:35 and 5:40.

Very interesting and informative video. I never thought I would here anyone actually mispronounce the simple common word LEMANS but your AI narrator sure did butcher it. LOL!

I thought the C2's front end started floating at 100 mph.

Know guy who has one since 1972

Gʻ.m shood bring back the song ray with. 427

I had a 77' Oldsmobile Omega with a 327 small block with a racing cam. & a 4 barrel carb. Headers and a dual exhaust.. Pozzy rear-end.. It was FAST in the quarter-mile with a 3-speed hydro-automatic tranny.. I bought it for $600 with bullet holes in the trunk cover because it was a drug-running car.. Red with Red interior..

motors & engines in the same sentence

I see one in a garage of one of my customers. Original equipment and paint

C2 my favorite generation of Corvette! Friend of mine in High School had one with 427 engine. He said it would pull the front wheels off the ground in 3rd gear!

They were trying to keep up with Shelby lol

Sweet car! Yes! But its HP is overrated. Love it!

Irwindale Raceway saw lots of these

I knew a guy in Norman Oklahoma that built these at the factory. He said they actually made 518 of them. Not sure why they lied about it

La Maaaans😂

No mention of the ultra-rare 1970 Corvette ZL-1 with 600 HP? That was an L88 with an all-alluminium block; I can't remember the number made but it was less than 10. I'd expect those to be the most valuable Corvettes now.

04:06 And if you are familiar, it's pretty much the same...

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The 1969 Corvette ZL1 is the "Craziest and Rarest ever made." 🎓

that´s my car but i thought it was a 65 for some reason i thought the next body sold till the early 80´s was the 67 and what a car it was ,i had three of them in diferent years i sold U.S. cars in Europe, kept maybe 10 or 12 most of them are pontiacs starting in 67 and ending in 74 with the firebird trans am formula 400 one of my favorite cars also the fastest car in the world when released

I had a 69 Yanko Chevy Nova 427 when I was 18yrs old in 1972.. it was the baddest car in town..also got in too much trouble to mention…ps but the girls loved it!

Only Sunoco 260 gasoline in this car.Petroleum institute confirms 103-104 octane for this pump gas.I used only this in the mid-60.At 2AM station was closed and I had to use a bit of Clark 100.Had to stay off WOT or I’d get spark knock.

Rarer than a '69 ZL1? No. There were two made for production. There were 20 1967 L88s made. And you could technically say 1 example of the 1984 Corvette was made. Kinda. It was a prototype that survived, not production. I won't say the L88 isn't an exceedingly special rare powerful and desirable Corvette. But to say it is the rarest is simply not true.

These were basically unobtainium for anyone not hardwired into the GM dealership power structure back in the day. GM may have been "out of racing" but they wouldn't sell them to people who were abstaining. Might as well want a real Italian GTO.

The L88 wire strainer around the carb was not cosmetic. It was to keep boulders, pets and small children for being sucked into the intake.

All those corvettes were awesome, unfortunately it's 4 speed manual transmission was a limiting factor compared to if it had a modern day dual clutch 7 speed transmission which would've allowed all of those Corvette variants especially the one with 560 HP to be quicker and faster.

Started selling Chevrolet In Jan 1967 age 22 in hi performance dealership , had SS 396 350 hp company car first day raced & sold a few L88s had great new & used car managers got to work with the best of old time pros BIG FUN EVERY DAY AND 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

Race only, Radio / heater delete and No fan shroud. Really " street car ".Try driving a C2 on the street without a fan shroud. But we'll install clear plastic back up lights for those dark nights in the pits. The L88 is an enigma.

How does a car website mispronounce the name LeMans, calling it La man's? (Rhymes with cans).

That it will be delicious,L88,even C2,for Feds.Speedy?

00:28 'Originally built'? How many times was it built?

''CORVETTE STINGRAY I DO IT MY WAY''. Said By DAVID LEE ROTH. ''YOU CAN HEAD YOUR BET ON A CLEAN CORVETTE''. Said By DON FELDER, FROM THE SONG '''TAKEN A RIDE''.

The C8 is a design nightmare.

La Mans? Le Mah.

pic at 1.30 aint no vette or the next one either

Nickey Chevrolet would sell you a L-88 , L-78 ZL1 or a ls6 or 7 454 big block for you to put into any car you wanted ..

Too bad the rear wheel wells couldn't accommodate wide tires to transfer the power to pavement.

If you have the means and can get a C3 L88 for 400k, jump on it.

L88 wasn't the rarest. The 1969 ZL1 was.

They’re were No 560 hp, factory cars , period in the 60s! Drag cars ? , like the Thunderbolt but not street cars.

Fastest American production car was the Shelby AC 427 Cobra.

Guess they never heard of the 1969 Corvette ZL1

PS: M'y First Car ; '69 327 ci 4 Spds : CAMARO W / Vette Engine. 😎👍😀💙

They stop making Corvette's after 1967.

And how many 63 corvette grand sports were made? 5…. So 20 is not the rarest.

TRUMP 2024

he shows the first model and then says when the second model is showed the narrow body of the C1,now i understand why the 80´s corvette i got cheap is a C4 my first was considered the fastest car in the world it had manual gears it was a 65 ,for the lovers of automatic or for disabled persons automatic shouldn´t be allowed in more than 100H.P. cars ,learn how to drive first then buy a powerfull car ,what kind of parents offer to their 16 years old children powerfull V8´s and then they cry because their sons and daughters died a day after or in the day it was ofered,i would put them in jail to be raped forever and why? put a 500h.p in the hands of a 16 year old or even 200h.p is too much i started with 11 with a fiat sport abarth with a 850cc engine and with big carburators doble the size of the engine block had 45 h.p. after a VW1200 and only at 18 i had a datsun 1800 tri s or SSS ,bluebird from 71, a luxurious sport car for the winning of the rally championship but drove since i could step on the clutch no matter how many books i had to tie to my snickers

C3's look SO cool but they do not even have gloveboxes let alone any kind of trunk. There was nowhere to put anything.

Silly AI voice over!! Anyhow, screw quarter miles. Americans need to work on handling. We can't be stuck on Boomer straight line crap anymore! We've been fastest on straight line for ages geez. Let's change shit up and face challenge for god sakes! WE'RE TOO GOD DAMN COMFORTABLE!!

how on earth did the corvetter IRS and frail muncie trans hold up?

overrated their horsepower

Ford Mustang Boss 351 is the GOAT ❤

560? Not with that air cleaner set up. I'll bet that robbed at LEAST 50 horses right out of the gate and you KNOW that's not the way it was tested on the dyno. That said, it's still a cool engine.

I bought my first 1967 small block 20 years ago. Loved that car but I live in Florida it had no AC and the car interior got so hot by the time I got to the second light sweat was dripping down my back. It was impossible to enjoy the car with your shirt wet. Driving around with the windows open sucked as you just got blasted with hot air. Very depressing. I am good friends with a Doctor who has a 1963 small block and it has air but its till ridiculously hot. He has wrapped all the exhaust and installed custom heat insulation on both sides of the firewall and the body pan and its still to hot to drive. His wife wont drive in it. Now its impossible its so hot. I don't see any hot cars driving around here never. Unless they have there windows up. Bummer. My advice to anyone is never buy a hot rod these days without ac. You wont want to drive it.

I could have bought one in 1977 for 3k