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gen2rt · 01-08-2017

ZR-1 values are languishing, because the desirability is in kind of a nether land right now (my opinion). Based on comments here, and hindsight of the past 20 years - for its time, the ZR-1 was the most performance you could buy for the money. The guys who bought them new, though, were in a different tax bracket than most of us that have these cars today. It could be said that they retained that performance edge for about 10 years after production. That edge went away with the C6, Z06 and ZR1 variants. The ZR-1 when new, was a rich guy's toy, some guys prepped them for the track, but took a lot of effort, it doesn't seem that's what Chevrolet had in mind when they built them. Face it, if a guy wants to buy performance and has a little bit more to spend, he's going to look at a C6 before he does a C4 ZR1.
And if a guy is into nostalgia, I think the c4s are still too new (read common, especially considering they don't look any different to the uneducated) to hold the attraction needed before guys get into bidding frenzies like they do with some of the C3 and C2 models. I see $2500 C4 beaters - not that uncommon, and until owners finally give up the ghost and start sending C4s to the crusher in bigger numbers, they're just not considered special by the general car enthusiast. I think it's inevitable though. Economics say you reach a point where you buy another car instead of bleeding your bank account on what feels like a lost cause. So I think we need to see a lot more C4s come off the road, and even maybe some used up ZR-1s (accidents, or economically beyond repair) scrapped. Eventually, people will start noticing that C4 at the end of the row of cars with the hood up and the engine that doesn't look like the rest of them.
I think it'll happen, just going to take a little longer.

01-08-2017	#17
gen2rt Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: NV Posts: 38	Re: 22.600 for a showroom 94 blk/red ZR-1 values are languishing, because the desirability is in kind of a nether land right now (my opinion). Based on comments here, and hindsight of the past 20 years - for its time, the ZR-1 was the most performance you could buy for the money. The guys who bought them new, though, were in a different tax bracket than most of us that have these cars today. It could be said that they retained that performance edge for about 10 years after production. That edge went away with the C6, Z06 and ZR1 variants. The ZR-1 when new, was a rich guy's toy, some guys prepped them for the track, but took a lot of effort, it doesn't seem that's what Chevrolet had in mind when they built them. Face it, if a guy wants to buy performance and has a little bit more to spend, he's going to look at a C6 before he does a C4 ZR1. And if a guy is into nostalgia, I think the c4s are still too new (read common, especially considering they don't look any different to the uneducated) to hold the attraction needed before guys get into bidding frenzies like they do with some of the C3 and C2 models. I see $2500 C4 beaters - not that uncommon, and until owners finally give up the ghost and start sending C4s to the crusher in bigger numbers, they're just not considered special by the general car enthusiast. I think it's inevitable though. Economics say you reach a point where you buy another car instead of bleeding your bank account on what feels like a lost cause. So I think we need to see a lot more C4s come off the road, and even maybe some used up ZR-1s (accidents, or economically beyond repair) scrapped. Eventually, people will start noticing that C4 at the end of the row of cars with the hood up and the engine that doesn't look like the rest of them. I think it'll happen, just going to take a little longer.