classic car

  I opened my new issue of Automobile to a random page, which turned out to be one of the auction coverage pages. I always look forward to this section because I can judge what cars are going for depending on mods, history, originality, etc... Anyways, I saw these cars, and they just didn't look right in this section. There was a Pontiac Aztec, a Saturn SC2, a beaten-up '97 Corvette, and other GM cars of the Eighties and Nineties. Then I read the info provided, and it all made sense, if weird sense. All of these GM cars were auctioned off by the company in an effort to earn money. The Aztec was the first Aztec built (with camping equipment still in place, mint), The Saturn was the Millionth Saturn built, and the Corvette was a pre-production C5 prototype. Of course, the SC2 and the Aztec failed to bring $25k (combined), but the 'Vette got $41,800. Another Corvette, an '89 ZR1 made a Convertible by Don Runkle (GM engineer), got an impressive $286,000, probably a record for a close-to-stock GM car from the Eighties. The photo is of the 'Vette (known internally as the DR-1 for the guy's name) and is from corvettes.nl