1998 Chevrolet Corvette Base

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1998 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible • Same Owner for 26 Years• 72K Miles • - Showroom like Burgundy Exterior • Immaculate Black Interior •Garaged • Rust & Salt Free • Brand New Tires

The C5 Corvette was a clean-sheet redesign that reset what an American sports car could be — all-aluminum LS1 power, a rear-mounted transaxle for near-perfect balance, and a structure so stiff that when the convertible arrived for 1998, it needed no heavy reinforcements to go topless. This example presents exactly the way a long-term-owned C5 should: a Florida car, rust & salt free, with the same owner for the past 26 years.

That ownership history comes paired with a genuinely rare color. The factory name for this finish is Light Carmine Red Metallic (53U), offered only for the 1997 and 1998 model years, with just 1,567 Corvettes built in the color in total — and only 513 of them U.S.-market convertibles. Of the 31,084 Corvettes built for 1998, just 11,849 were convertibles, making this first-year C5 ragtop in a two-year-only color a combination you simply do not come across every day.