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Carson said:
GLH...Goes Like Hell

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7k-Mile 1986 Dodge Omni Shelby GLH-S

Bid for the chance to own a 7k-Mile 1986 Dodge Omni Shelby GLH-S at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #187,174.
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In the mid-80's my Mom was shopping for an Omni and there was a left-over GLH Turbo on the lot. We got her to take it for a test drive, the salesman was shocked that she knew how to drive a stick. Somehow me and my brothers convinced her to buy it. 😎 Lots of sleeper moments in that car when we put a bleeder on the waste gate.

The GLH-S dusted a '65 GT350 at the track when it came out:

https://www.hotrod.com/features/shelby-april-1986-982-1338-22-1/

Even though I'm not a Mustang fan, still rather have the GT.
 
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GSTim said:
Having a stick doesn't hurt either. 😎
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Definitely. It's really a deal-killer for me ever wanting a C8. It's not about the all-out speed. Hell, my stupid minivan has enough performance to put me in jail if ask it to. It's about the driving experience - which is why all of my "fun" cars have manual transmissions.
 
GSTim said:
In the mid-80's my Mom was shopping for an Omni and there was a left-over GLH Turbo on the lot. We got her to take it for a test drive, the salesman was shocked that she knew how to drive a stick. Somehow me and my brothers convinced her to buy it. 😎 Lots of sleeper moments in that car when we put a bleeder on the waste gate.

The GLH-S dusted a '65 GT350 at the track when it came out:

https://www.hotrod.com/features/shelby-april-1986-982-1338-22-1/

Even though I'm not a Mustang fan, still rather have the GT.
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I'll have to ask if it was the -S version, but my riding buddy Tom used to have a GLH as his track/race car.
 
GSTim said:
Feeling pretty good about getting my '19 GS for $55K new. 😁

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3,400-Mile 2017 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport Coupe 2LT 7-Speed

Bid for the chance to own a 3,400-Mile 2017 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport Coupe 2LT 7-Speed at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #188,716.
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This is less than 500 miles a year. I don't understand why people buy cars like this and don't drive them.
 
The target demographic of the C8 is the retired guy who can hardly walk, much less drive a car in a fun way.

I live in a town that gets a shitload of retired boomers visiting. Every day you can watch the generic C7/C8 corvette or 911 take 5 minutes to parallel park and (slowly) out gets a 65+ man with his wife to go into a fancier restaurant. There's way more money in selling a C8 to a retired guy with tons of cash in his investment account who will check box all the options for the car he's thought about the last 20 years slaving away.

I just think of my dad who has a 39 Chevy with an automatic. I drive my Honda Fit with more vigor than he'll ever drive his car. Yet this past year he put in a 600HP fuel injected engine so he can impress the other old guys at the Sunday car meetup when he tells them about the new engine.

Ugh, I just remembered this is Porsche weekend in town. Gonna be a ton of slow moving people on the sidewalks downtown.

Ian F said:
Definitely. It's really a deal-killer for me ever wanting a C8. It's not about the all-out speed. Hell, my stupid minivan has enough performance to put me in jail if ask it to. It's about the driving experience - which is why all of my "fun" cars have manual transmissions.
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Santapez said:
The target demographic of the C8 is the retired guy who can hardly walk, much less drive a car in a fun way.

I live in a town that gets a shitload of retired boomers visiting. Every day you can watch the generic C7/C8 corvette or 911 take 5 minutes to parallel park and (slowly) out gets a 65+ man with his wife to go into a fancier restaurant. There's way more money in selling a C8 to a retired guy with tons of cash in his investment account who will check box all the options for the car he's thought about the last 20 years slaving away.

I just think of my dad who has a 39 Chevy with an automatic. I drive my Honda Fit with more vigor than he'll ever drive his car. Yet this past year he put in a 600HP fuel injected engine so he can impress the other old guys at the Sunday car meetup when he tells them about the new engine.

Ugh, I just remembered this is Porsche weekend in town. Gonna be a ton of slow moving people on the sidewalks downtown.
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I'd say you're not wrong other than getting in/out of a modern Vette isn't the most graceful process a 60+ person can attempt. My 76 year old mother has enough trouble getting in/out of my MINI and that's easy compared to a Vette.

Could also explain why the C7 in the auction was only driven 500 miles/ year. For the owner, every drive may have been an event they had to work up to and then recover from.
 
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