19 Aug 2025, 10:50 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea // The last time it crossed the block, this red-on-red L88 fetched $3.2 million. More recently, it failed to find a new owner at three different auctions.

Chevrolet Corvettes that earn the coveted title of “classic” are numerous. General Motors began production in 1953, and its continued ever since save for a two-year hiatus in the early 1980s between ...

Big-block-powered Corvettes always fetch healthy sums at classic-car auctions, but rarely does an L88 cross the auction block, let alone two. Mecum will sell off a pair of C3 L88 Corvettes at its ...

Collectible Corvettes often sell for mind-boggling sums, but this ‘67 Chevy may just take the cake. The ultra-rare ride is expected to reach a cool $5 million, which would make it the most expensive ...

A pair of historically significant Corvettes are among the featured lots at a Mecum auction happening now in Kissimmee, Florida. Offered as a single lot, the pair are the first and last production L88 ...

In the world of collectible Corvettes, there is rare, and then there is rare. In its day, the biggest, most powerful Corvette engine of them all was the L88, offered from 1967 to 1969. Model examples ...

The Chevy Corvette L88 was “Father of the Corvette” Zora Arkus Duntov‘s end-run around General Motors’ edict that they would not participate in competitive motorsports. That edict came after the ...

Q: Hey Greg, since you haven’t written about Corvettes in a while I’ll throw a tough one your way. If you could own just one Corvette from the classic years, what would you pick? Also, I know the new ...

But one really needs to be prepared – both financially and especially on the mental side – to shell out anywhere near the $5,000,000 estimate just to own one of ...

Harley Earl—the father of the Corvette—got his inspiration for the first of the breed when he lapped the Buick LeSabre concept around Watkins Glen racetrack on September 15, 1951. It’s perhaps no ...

If you consider yourself a Corvette enthusiast, you probably already know what the L88 is. They were built from 1967 through 1969 and only 216 existed, with the most popular year being 1969 (116 cars) ...