Junkyard Find: 1984 Chevrolet Corvette

by Murilee Martin

February 12th, 2014 8:45 PM

You know how there was no 1983 Corvette, and then the C4 finally came out in 1984, and it had this terrible twin-throttle-body fuel-injection system? Of course you do. Anyway, C4 Corvettes are worth enough these days that they’re not common sights in self-service wrecking yards, and those that I do find have been picked pretty clean.. Shops that specialize in Corvettes intercept most basket-case examples before they get to these yards, but I found four C4s all together at a Southern California yard last month. Let’s check out a well-stripped example of the first of the good-handling Corvettes.

This one is rough, the interior smells like the blue water in a Porta-Potty, and you’ll get a case of fiberglass-itch if you get too close.

But the Cross-Fire Injection is pretty cool-looking.

I didn’t bother to shoot the other three C4s, because they were all in similar condition.

I’m sure these carcasses will stay out on the yard until there’s nothing left of them.

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Halftruth on Feb 14, 2014

Had an 85 with the multi port injection. Bought with high miles and put 30K trouble free miles on it. Was dependable and ran 14.0 1/4.. Not bad for 160K miles. I am not a Gm guy by any stretch but always wanted a Vette. Cheap fun, easy to fix and easy to run. I would buy another in a sec. I think they are some of the best deals out there. Surprised to see three there in a row! That back glass is an expensive item as are alot of the other Vette-specific bits.

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Peter421sd on Feb 22, 2014

The comments here are really priceless,to dare to compare a Corvette to a Miata is so out of line is almost blasphemous,one wonders if the "reviewer" in question didn't spend his whole existence squeezed in the back seat of a Honda Civic...

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