69 Corvette L-88 sells for $610,000

Travis Miller · 05-03-2012, 07:35 AM

The Mecum's Spring Classic Auction is the best musclecar exhibition I have ever attended. It will be held May 15-20, 2012 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in downtown Indianapolis.

Travis

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Chuck Beach · 05-03-2012, 11:11 AM

What's an L88?

Greg Hill · 05-03-2012, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Chuck Beach

What's an L88?

Only from a Mopar guy. It's a Corvette with an L88 motor. Aluminum heads, 600 lift cam , 12.5 to 1 compression, 850 Holley and 427 cubic inches.

bert powell · 05-03-2012, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Greg Hill

Only from a Mopar guy. It's a Corvette with an L88 motor. Aluminum heads, 600 lift cam , 12.5 to 1 compression, 850 Holley and 427 cubic inches.

Rated at 325hp, lol.

Chuck Beach · 05-03-2012, 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Greg Hill

Only from a Mopar guy. It's a Corvette with an L88 motor. Aluminum heads, 600 lift cam , 12.5 to 1 compression, 850 Holley and 427 cubic inches.

that's nice, Is there an S69? or a P44? just curious

Mike Gray · 05-04-2012, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Greg Hill

Only from a Mopar guy. It's a Corvette with an L88 motor. Aluminum heads, 600 lift cam , 12.5 to 1 compression, 850 Holley and 427 cubic inches.

Hey, I have one of those 850's, NHRA says it goes on my '67 Shelby. If the Vette is worth $610K my carb should be worth at least $2K. LOL

Hemi Moose · 05-05-2012, 07:25 PM

That's funny because the '69 427 L88 Corvette only came in at number #16 on this 50 fastest muscle cars list...and to bad they didn't include the '68 Hemi Darts & '68 Hemi Barracuda's with cross-ram race hemi's, or some of the other cars produced by Yenko or Baldwin Motion, etc...and yes the L88 was a race motor in a production car, and so were all the others...and yeah the 427 Cobra was a soccer moms car.

http://www.musclecarclub.com/musclec...s-50fast.shtml

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Chad Rhodes · 05-06-2012, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Hemi Moose

That's funny because the '69 427 L88 Corvette only came in at number #16 on this 50 fastest muscle cars list...and to bad they didn't include the '68 Hemi Darts & '68 Hemi Barracuda's with cross-ram race hemi's, or some of the other cars produced by Yenko or Baldwin Motion, etc...and yes the L88 was a race motor in a production car, and so were all the others...and yeah the 427 Cobra was a soccer moms car.

http://www.musclecarclub.com/musclec...s-50fast.shtml

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They should have tested a 4 speed one. And if gm had put 2x4s on it, there would be a l88 shoot out

l88427 · 05-06-2012, 07:02 AM

. And if gm had put 2x4s on it, there would be a l88 shoot out[/QUOTE]
yes and if gm had put two fours on it ,it would have to be at lest 200 lbs heavier than the hemi darts and cudas just to make it fair you know.

Ed Fernandez · 05-03-2012, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Chuck Beach

What's an L88?

Chuck,that's one more than an L-87 and one less than an L-89.

58 more to go.

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Hemi Moose VIP Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 2,824 Likes: 0 Liked 12 Times in 12 Posts	Re: 69 Corvette L-88 sells for $610,000 That's funny because the '69 427 L88 Corvette only came in at number #16 on this 50 fastest muscle cars list...and to bad they didn't include the '68 Hemi Darts & '68 Hemi Barracuda's with cross-ram race hemi's, or some of the other cars produced by Yenko or Baldwin Motion, etc...and yes the L88 was a race motor in a production car, and so were all the others...and yeah the 427 Cobra was a soccer moms car. http://www.musclecarclub.com/musclec...s-50fast.shtml . Last edited by Hemi Moose; 05-05-2012 at 07:33 PM.

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l88427 Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 62 Likes: 15 Liked 17 Times in 8 Posts	Re: 69 Corvette L-88 sells for $610,000 . And if gm had put 2x4s on it, there would be a l88 shoot out[/QUOTE] yes and if gm had put two fours on it ,it would have to be at lest 200 lbs heavier than the hemi darts and cudas just to make it fair you know.

05-03-2012, 07:35 AM	#1
Travis Miller Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 478 Likes: 1 Liked 276 Times in 27 Posts	Re: 69 Corvette L-88 sells for $610,000 The Mecum's Spring Classic Auction is the best musclecar exhibition I have ever attended. It will be held May 15-20, 2012 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in downtown Indianapolis. Travis (Disclaimer: Opinions expressed by me on this forum are exactly that, my opinions.)