1967 L88 Corvette - My Love Never Dies

Everybody who's read my articles knows that I'm a, absolute camaro freak, but what I've never told you is that in my eyes there has never been a car like the 1967 L88 Corvette, I'm not going to lie and say that I love the L88 corvette more then the camaro.

Although I will say that I have wanted a 1967 L88 corvette all of my muscle car life, I would love to buy one and restore it, well I don't know about a perfect 100 point restoration, maybe a resto-mod, I know that it's a must for me to get one of these cars though.

When I was growing up I had a friend that owned a 1968 L88 Corvette, and I loved that car, I raced him in my 1969 Z/28 camaro, I was one of the first people to get a ride in that car, and my god what a ride it was, I have never seen a stock car do what that car did.

If you know a guy like me, it doesn't take a lot of imagination to understand why I have got to have a 1967 L88 Corvette, some people dream of the big house on the hill, some people dream of the multi-billion dollar a year business.

But I dream of a 1967 L88 Corvette, although it doesn't stop me from wanting another 1969 Z/28 camaro, it's hard for me to explain why I'm such a muscle car freak, if your not one you'd probably never understand any way, it's a love, a love for something that will never be seen again.

Chevrolet can do what they want with the new corvettes, but they can never in a million years reproduce a car that is anything like the L88 corvette, just the sound of the engine alone is unmistakable, you know that it's something special when you hear it.

Then we have the styling of the 1967 L88 corvette, the body style more closely represented a European sports car then it did a muscle car, a corvette was the only car to ever be considered both a sports car, and a muscle car, and that is still true to this day.

Corvettes were many thing to different people, but to me a corvette is the defining moment of Chevrolet performance cars, although I love the camaro just as much, the history of the camaro isn't quite as deep as the corvette, the corvette inspired awe in 1953 when it was first produced.

It still inspires awe to this very day, but no corvette has ever done what the L88 corvette done way back in the 1960's, it was just one of those special cars, the like of which can never be recreated again, a once in a lifetime moment of clarity for Chevrolet.