Yahoo Autos Junkyard Gem: 1994 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe
The Chevrolet Corvette is not the kind of vehicle that shows up frequently in ordinary car graveyards; when one wrecks or gets used up beyond restoration, it tends to end up in a specialty yard instead of your typical Ewe Pullet-type operation. Two or three decades back, I'd find the occasional C3 Corvette during my junkyard travels (and I still do, but only nearly unrecognizable shells that I don't bother to document), but the early C4 is the most likely discarded Corvette to appear in your neighborhood boneyard these days. Here's an unusual-for-the-junkyard late C4, found recently in a self-service yard in Reno, Nevada.
The C4 was available as a convertible from the 1986 model year all the way through 1996. This car is the more common coupe with bolt-on targa roof (which appears to be missing, perhaps bought by the first junkyard shopper who saw it).
I couldn't get the hood open, but what I presume is the original 300-horsepower 5.7-liter V8 is still in the engine compartment.
1994 Corvette buyers could choose between a six-speed manual and a four-speed automatic for the same price. It appears that 17,318 of these cars were sold with automatics, while just 6,012 had manuals. This one has the automatic.
Corvette proud!
