The strange world of used Corvette sales 

Corvettes are like houses. The only way to get one is to wait for the person inside to expire.

Corvette owners don’t sell their vette, they let it sit until it’s a few years old then trade it in for....you guessed it a new corvette

You give me joy-swells by doing an impression of me! Thank you!

I never farted in mine. So it is really one of a kind.

"My Corvette is best Corvette because My name's not on the title" - some absolute LEGEND

"The rear spoiler was mounted with drywall screws." That should have been your opener.

This is my ‘96. There are many like it but this one is mine!

It's like guys who sell 15 year old diesel pickups with 300k on them for 18grand or more, saying it's got lots of life left, just getting started. Yeah ok bud.

3:50 THIS A lot of Corvette Owners think they've got some super special exotic! One of my favorite experiences was seeing Forum members completely burst this bubble for new forum members. If you bought a Corvette to be special, well...you bought the wrong car. Buy one because they're bargain performance machines. Accept they'll never be, "rare" and you'll enjoy them tenfold more!!!

As a Corvette person myself, this describes Corvette people perfectly.

*My curvette is best curvette because 1/8 diecast replica*

I love my corvette I hate the owners club

Corvette; the car that is never driven and never sold used.

"It was a Stingray, but it looked like a Z06" Oh, they found a Grandsport? "drywall screws" Oh noooo.

There is two types of corvette owners, in my experience. The die hard corvette club type, and the guys that just want a fast, light, well performing sports car for decent price. I'm group two.

"My Corvette is best Corvette because my name isn't on the title." Hhahahaha!

"My Cadillac wagon is not a V, its a 3.6, therefore MORE RARE so it's worth more." Corvette guy selling his daily.

If it wasn't Rabbit then might as well be Rabbit Jr.

I remember trying to sell my C6, I priced it the lowest on the West Coast. Calls would roll in non-stop, everyone wanted to talk, about their life and their dreams of owning a corvette. When I asked if they were interested in checking it out in person or had any questions about the car other than what was described in my listing, the answer was always no. DREAMERS. The guy who ended up buying it wasn’t even going to drive it, told me it sit in his garage for 11 months a year minimum.

The moral of this video is something is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay.

When I bought my first Vette I went to a ‘Corvette Club’ car meet & greet, realized very quickly I was the only one walking around trying to engage in conversation, everyone else was in a lawn chair behind their car

sounds like my dad trying to sell his beaten to shit 92' Camaro for 15k because its an anniversary edition.

As a C5 owner I couldn't agree more. Some Corvette guys are the worst

LOL! When you realize you are guilty of what you're complaining about.

Excessive seat wear is the the number one sign of a rolled back odometer. (Not everytime. But 90%)

This is some advice to all owners and not just the Corvette owners. Just go out and enjoy your cars. Life is too short to worry about mileage.

Did he just talk real slowly and tell us he had a 1 of 1 corvette?

As someone who owns a Corvette and has sold them in the past this is 100% true haha. I will say IMO its because a lot of the buyers/sellers skew older. I think the last poll on the vette forums was 70% were over 50 years old. I don't think they get on the internet as much as the younger crowd. It was interesting that the higher performance models skewed younger. Like the z06 average age was 32 and zr1 age was 38. You get the older crowd who thinks of the Corvette as like an original Hemi Cuda(not literally just using it as an example) so they all talk about weird colors or 1 offs that make it unique and it ends up being kind of laughable.

C5’s are a PITA to sell because they were sold in large quantities. When the C6 debuted, so many owners wanted top dollar in trade they held onto them and let them sit in the garage as they took the new C6 out to cruise around. This means there are a metric fuckton of low mile C5 Vettes flooding the market. That means even if someone has a nice, low mile car they think has a lot of value, they’re shocked to find out they aren’t the only one and it’s a buyer’s market

"The tires stuck out about this far from the body" **cuts to unrelated picture so we cant see hand gesture denoting size* * Editing: 100

I tried to talk about buying a ‘63 Split window the other day the guy when on for about 15 minutes how it “actually came as a blue with tan vinyl interior” & when I asked him what engine came in it he said “that colour combination was actually very rare especially the vinyl” & on & on! In the end he said he wasn’t really interested in selling it. So this story is 100% accurate.

"This car is probably too rough for Ed Bolian" That's a bold statement.

That’s a proper shirt for this video.

I wonder how many of these people are being forced to "sell" by significant others sick of it, and this is how they keep them.

Man this guy would hate selling normal cars lol

Whoever mounted the spoiler with drywall screws deserves a very hard punch in the face

So Corvettes are the anti-car flippers/middlemen sports car? GOOD.

I think that will always be an issue with the corvette community. You have a car that is bottom of the barrel in the "exotic car" category but the owners try to be just a posh.

"MY CORVETTE IS RARE!" "Does it have a Z06 badge on the side?" "No..." "I've got some bad news for you, boomer."

I have owned myself 2 Corvettes, and once I'm out of a little financial situation, plan on buying my 3rd soon... you are 100% right with both ends of the C5 market The issues come surrounding what the Corvette C5 has become. The problem is it's very different to who owns it currently, and who wants to buy them. To those who don't own them, they're becoming Power to the People. There's several C5s (in a condition drop to the kind of cars you sell) that are around that $10k mark, and so outrageously fast for most else at that money. They're being seen as the perfect car for those without a lot of money, but who still want to own a performance car. The ideal C5 for this group is in like the sports car daily driver condition area... so like 6-7/10 or lower (this is where I fall in, my C4s I owned were like $3k and $5k respectively to purchase). The sports car buyers of this age group who DO care about condition, the C5 isn't the kind of car they want, they'd rather spend the money on like a 996 Turbo or a F355/360 for this sort of era of sports car/supercar. The C5 is just too common for the ones who care. The people who own them currently however are very different. To them, a lot of them bought it new, they still see it as a $50k car. They also have a little twinge in the back of their mind that it doesn't matter that they were so common... because of the Mustang. The Gen1 Mustang market made it where you could push "1 of 1!!!!" because of all the option combos even when the car itself was common as balls. Corvette owners want their car to be an investment as well. Their old cars they owned when they were 20, and so many pieces of 50s and 60s American iron that were selling for peanuts during the oil crisis are now selling for insane money, and they're a little irritated they couldn't do that. It doesn't compute to them that sports cars that were common when new aren't necessarily gonna go insane after a long time, because that's all they've seen happen. As a result, they are trying to push the C5 into the same market. Its the kinda dying car market mentality of the 60s muscle car era, where that jump into 8/10-9/10 is completely unattainable, and the people who don't have an 8-9/10 car deluding themselves into thinking its an 8-9/10. I think the car market going way more international hasn't fully hit that the Corvette isn't the mountaintop anymore. Ferraris aren't limited to 1 dealer in Greenwich CT as they were in the 50s/60s. Volkswagens aren't solely owned by hippies/people who moved from Europe. The top end of sports cars has gone WAY higher than the sellers have fully grasped. The problem is this marriage of a buyers market that wants Corvettes with a few cosmetic/non-original issues to save a few grand and a sellers market that keeps their car locked in a garage polished every weekend and wanting to sell a car with sub 10k miles. There's extremely little crossover where you can find the cars that buyers like me want, and that sellers actually have. I don't want to push this into Boomers/GenXers (as sellers) vs Millenials/Zoomers (as buyers), but I think the difficulty of the market is primarily a culture clash between the 2 age groups. It's to the point where C5s are becoming the nostalgia fuel for people my age (20s to early 30s or so), but most of the people who are selling it.... the ones who want them already have them, so they're selling them to people outside of their age range and don't fully gather the mentality of how other generations negotiate, or at the very least, don't understand that a fair amount of car people of this age who want this type of car don't care fully about 30k miles vs 60k miles. The younger generation of car people don't understand the kind of attachment and what the older generation has into the car, and what they expect out of getting rid of the car. The price bump for the final few steps of the car condition ladder just isn't worth it to younger generations of car people who are interested in the lower end of sports cars.

Get Mr. Regular

Idk how vinwiki times content releases, but it always works out with me dropping a dump. Thank you Jesus

"My corvette is best Corvette because...." -RegularCars

He was “surprised” a dealer lowballed a person wanting to sell his car. Uhh news flash, they ALL do that!!!

This is very true on both parts of buying and selling corvettes. These old guys will walk around looking at a low mileage perfect condition corvette meticulously just looking for a reason to lowball you and when they can't even find an excuse to they just lowball you anyway and once you decline they act all insulted lol

“Buyer beware” doesn’t apply to corvette buyers either, apparently.

Corvette owners are just killing time between rounds of golf at the public coarse.

Try getting an excursion with a 7.3

we got a lot of impressions/impersonations in this one. well-rounded

I really want VinWiki to pass 1 million subscribers before the end of 2019!! You all really deserve it

A car that's rough enough for Ed? Yikes. Cars like that must be incredibly difficult to save

I never knew Corvettes can be found for cheap Like literally dirt cheap

Funny how he goes on about it for 7 minutes then says his is a special one because .... At the end hahaha

Can someone please help me understand why I ENJOY listening to these stories so much!?

So the moral of the story is if the peasants can buy it the rich won't buy it.

Boomers always want a "deal" That's literally it They see the guy who finds a 1 of 1 cuda hemi in a barn for a few grand, flipping it for six figures and figure "I can do the same thing with an off-the-lot vette from Bob's Chevrolet"

*"My Corvette best corvette cuz my name not on title!"* For me, that was the icing on the cake for this story.

LOL! Fiberglass fumes! It's probably just their mid life crisis talking.

"No lowballers!! I KNOW WHAT I GOT!!! Tire kickers WILL BE SHOT"

"There's always a bottom feeder ... but since Ed Bolian is not my target demographic ..."

The DougCember we actually wanted

Just wanted to thank you, for reinforcing our decision to stay away from the sales side of the Corvette world... We have a shop in the Seattle area, that specializes in Vettes and every few yrs we toy with the thought of getting into sales. As masochistic as it can be just doing what we already do, I can't fathom what new form of torture we'd endure taking on all that extra fun!

I love my Corvette and quit my local Corvette club after the first year.

I'm on my 3rd Vette and will concur with this story. There is no worse car to buy/sell from an individual seller than a Corvette. Everyone seller wants 10k more than it's worth and every buyer is a craigslist window shoppeing enthusiast who always has 10k max to spend and will tell you why it's only worth that.

"A little too clean for Ed" lol love it. The great thing is that Ed gets that shit car for dirt cheap, puts it back to pristine, and then somehow doubles his money after putting miles on it for a year or two. Must be fun you guys.... must be fun.

He's a Corvette boi 😂😂 he just doesn't know it yet.

So Vultures can't make money off the Corvette? Sounds like a bonus feature to me

Corvette owners feel special because they know their car is a special, unique car. So special, in fact, it has never had a serious competitor from Ford or Chrysler in the American market even after 70 years.

My corvette is best corvette because best in show... last year Also no low ballers, i know what i have! Big fan of both @regularcars and @vinwiki

I really enjoyed looking at pictures of Porches while hearing about Corvettes.

Corvette seller: my plastic interior and exterior parts are not that warped.

"My Corvette is best corvette because it's actually a manual" is the most reasonable way to say how your Corvette is actually good

...so you mean that Corvette peeps are SHREWD NEGOTIATORS?

Exotic car rental in Cleveland?! The weather is miserable 9 months out of the year! Pot holes large enough to swallow a building 😂

Dealers make money not on the cars but instead from selling Corvette socks, Corvette underwear, Corvette sunglasses, Corvette keychains, Corvette stickers...

I would like to hear more stories of them talking about they brought a car, they did not like it and got the buyer to take it back. To me that is amazing itself.

What car do you think has the strangest audience? Answers other than Lotus are clearly acceptable.

corvette buyers have to afford gold chains and new balances

“Fiberglass fumes” 😂

My favorite part of this clip is when he talks about his “special” one of 300 corvette!🤣🤣🤣

Corvette owners are sophisticated third gen Camaro owners. "Glove box full of lottery tickets..." 😂

Have a 98 light red carmine coupe. Love the color. Hate everyone who thinks it’s like the other year reds.

I live in San Antonio and Corvettes are a dime a dozen here all of my neighbors have there’s parked in the garage. I never see them drive them. Must be a Corvette thing. Wait for the new mid engine Corvette to come out then you will hear oh but they quit making the front engine Corvette so now it’s worth more 😂

this happens a lot in the used land rover market too. my favorite tank ever, despite so many gremlins to check for, but sellers know, most buyers are unaware, just want the rover badge. if you ask seller about the common issues, they ignore you & move on to a buyer who doesn't know better.

My Corvette is the best Corvette because it had a Hooters waitress in it...

I bought a C6 a few years back, got a great deal from a nice gent (maybe rare) -- LOVE the car, will never sell it. Manual analog V8 power, nothing quite like it.

lol Drywall screws.

RCR name drop? I'm in. Which Corvette is best Corvette? Mine's best because *RARE*

As someone who's been flipping cars for a long time - I've been waiting for this video for a long time lol

I love how he projects himself whitin his history, "lottery tickets in the glove box", "trip whit the secretary", "bingo night"...

Understanding one's own pathology is the first step to recovery.

Queue RCR-esque "RARE COLOR RARE COLOR RARE COLOR"

Doug sure knows the corvette lifestyle....

That's a good one " My Corvette is the best one because my name is not on the title" 😂😂😂😂😂! Dying 😂😂😂!

My uncle designed Corvettes for GM. One day he gave me a gift. It was rectangular white box. In it was a perfectly detailed plastic model of a convertible red Corvette Stingray. It was amazing. I took care of it for a number of years but I believe it has been lost to time.

I’m surprised that the headlining event of every corvette meet isn’t an actual pissing contest.

Isn't the moral of the story, "Don't buy a car sight-unseen?"

This guy's RCR impression is damn near perfect!

"Couple minor damage reports, still too clean for Ed." 😂

So let me get this right you bought a car sight unseen and were upset when it arrived while you were on vacation lol?