27K Original Mile C4 Corvette Auction Find! Can We NOT Destroy it??

This ONE OWNER, 27k Mile C4 is the nicest car any of us here at Stay Tuned have ever seen. It was just purchased at Auction by my good buddy Brenden, and he thought it would be a good idea to leave it with us for a week to give it a once over. Tony Angelo and the Stay Tuned crew surprised him with a bunch of sweet upgrades to this absolute time capsule and made it better, faster, and even cooler than when it rolled off the showroom floor in 1986!

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CHAPTERS:

0:00 - Intro
3:23 - Cleanest C4 Ever!
7:28 - Driving Impressions
9:58 - Paint Correction
13:30 - Avalon King Ceramic Coating
18:56 - Retro Sound Stereo
25:54 - Exhaust Install
35:13 - Hi-Flow Intake Install
38:45 - More Driving!
41:25 - The Big Reveal!

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[benbirdsall]

The content on the channel is always killer but I'm excited to see Stay Tuned move into the dramatic reenactment game. Kudos to the actors for the moving portrayals of Brenden and the C4 both. The haters said a minivan could never play a vette and you've proved them all wrong!

[lll]

Fun Fact: The C4 Corvette was so dominant at the Sports Car Club of America's series known as the Showroom Class, that BMW and Porsche, who were running the E30 and the 944, had six to seven full time German engineers at the races to see why the Corvettes were so dominant, consistently finishing First thu Fourth!!
The series was set up as a showroom class because all you had to do was add a roll cage for safety and then shave the tires for track grip and go race! The Goodyear Eagle GT tires(Gatorbacks) that came on the Corvette, BMW and Porsche were the one of the first really super sticky, almost R compound tires of the day, taken straight from Formula 1s "rain tires" .
The bone stock Corvettes were so unbeatable that the SCCA actually had to start a series called the "Corvette Challenge" because the Germans just couldn't keep up !

[GrotrianSeiler]

Tony is the best. Everyone needs a friend like Tony. Great dude.

[badledgend]

A C4 Corvette has been a staple of my automotive bucket list for years, ever since I got to get up close with my neighbor's. I instantly fell in love with the LCD dash, and I'm a sucker for the pop ups and turbofan wheels. I want to build one as a Vette kart, but I want to try and retain some of the iconic C4 elements like those wheels, pop ups, and the dash, as well as trying to form the exoskeleton to mimic some of the shape and body lines. Such an awesome machine!

[BerttPal]

I love how the sponsored item is integrated into the show and not just a 30 sec time block that everyone eventually skips. It makes people actually want to buy and give it a try. Keep killing it Stay Tuned! We all love the content!

[nilsenbj]

the reenactment was hilarious 😂to bad you lost the footage, but other than that it was great show as usual, great stuff that i always look forward to on a Friday 👍

[One_Shot_Garage]

$14k would be steep pre-covid but I think prices have come up on the C4 a bit now that all the other go-to cars of the era have shot up in price. As was said earlier in the video. A $6k C4 would need way more than 8 grand to make it as nice as the low mile csr for $14k.

I paid $4k for mine in 2020, I put over 20 into it. Most of that was in upgrades, but stuff like carpet, weatherstripping, digital dash repair all adds up pretty quick.

Stay Tuned needs their own C4! Pick a driver quality one up, throw in a ZF6 or TKX and hop up that small block chevy.

[BBossman]

LOL... I worked in a Corvette specialty shop when these came out. The C4 made the C3 seem like a Conestoga wagon. By todays standards, these may as well be a C1, still cool to see one that nice though. Damn I'm getting old...

[daveunbranded]

Amazing part about this video is I'm literally working on my just bought c4 in my garage with $68, 000 original miles it's a 91 and I'm right now doing valve cover gaskets and draining the antifreeze while I'm watching this video. Amazing Timing

[StanleyKubick]

finally a C4 with the sawblades facing the right way, owner knows his stuff

[sixdProductions]

Barb’s “not a ford guy” garage full of Mustang posters and a Steeda banner 😂 love it!

Great episode. I just got an 85 C4 for my wife and it’s quickly becoming my favorite!

Keep it up guys!!

[nathanexplosion]

Great find! I have an 86 C4 convertible with just under 29, 000 miles. 4-speed, dark red with black top and grey leather interior. Love it. They have their warts but the smiles per dollar can’t be beat. Eventually the low mileage, well preserved and unmolested examples will be more valuable, hang on to it. Finding tires for the original 16 inch wheels is basically impossible now however.

[Ezisnotaman]

I did the same thing, I scoured the earth for a mint 1986 Z-28. Took over a year, found one 8 hours away, outside of Minneapolis. The car was perfect all the way around and has a 5 sp. manual and the owner blew up the 305 and swapped it with a the GM 350HO/330HP crate motor. Trailered it back in a snow storm.

[scottsanderson]

good to the last owner that kept it so clean and cared for it.

[RyanFannon-fyyf]

I knew that barb was a detail guy at heart. That explains why his garage is so clean. Awesome ride boys. Keep rocking always look forward to stay tuned 🤘🤘

[chrispreston]

Aw man, this is pure 80's nostalgia in a sleek, sexy package. I never was a fan of corvettes until now.

[joannaatkins]

Honestly the C4 corvette is my favourite of the bunch. That retro futuristic styling, wedge body shape, gorgeous turbine wheels, and clean lines are just wonderful.

I know they break down, they're neglected, the instrument cluster is unreliable, they're slower than the LS cars, but they're just special feeling and looking.

[intmd]

Thanks Tony. My parents bought the 84 “new” corvette and we were the hit of the block at the time. Cross fire injection first yr. Sooo slow. But cool. I will always miss that car. And now in my 50’s I rather get another C4 and upgrade it rather than these new midengines. Thank you so much and will follow you here from now on

[BuffMyRadius]

Barb's garage looks exactly how I would imagine in. Floor clean enough to eat off, and did I spot a Mustang Cobra picture on the wall?

[Michael_Lorenson]

As a guy who is refurbishing a 1988 manual C4 coupe, I would say that this car was worth _every bit_ of $14.5k. People today just don't understand what a serious, well-engineered, world class sports car the C4 Corvette was. It was the C8 of its day, but that was 40 years ago and we had no internet back then. However, you can still look up period road tests in the Car&Driver archives, for example, and you just might be amazed at how good the C4 really is. They are incredible bargains hiding in plain sight today.

A word of caution on a car like this one, though. Every original piece of rubber in it is now roughly 40 years old and needs to be replaced. That includes fuel lines, for example! Fire sucks... It also includes coolant lines, brake lines, suspension bushings, weather seals, etc.