[LS6 RAT]

My friends '71 LS6 Corvette was auctioned on Sunday June 10th thru the EXCELL Classic Auction event. It brought $230,000. A Classic White convertible with saddle custom interior and optioned out as M22, MA6, 3:08 drivetrain with PW, PS, PB, and lots of factory docs.

I have only seen a couple of '71 LS6 ZR2's bring higher dollars, as would be expected. This breaks the average sales price of previous standard LS6's that were typically bringing around $135,000. As some of you know, I've been involved with the survey/registry of these cars for more than 20 years, and I am excited that their time seems to have finally arrived. They tend to follow in the shadows of the '68, '69 L88's and those cars have increased dramatically in the last year. Currently I have 92 known/verified '71 LS6 Corvettes out of 188, so I am just about at the 50% level, unfortunately I did not keep track of the wrecked, burned, scrapped cars from years ago, although I know of some, and they are not in the present survey, so how many more I will locate in the upcoming years is hard to say. The breakdown currently is 52 coupes to 40 convertibles so the ratio of 2 coupes to 1 convertible for the '71 production model year doesn't seem to follow with respect to the LS6 cars at present.

Just to give some of you an idea, the Boss 429 engine option cost $1208.35, the LS-6 option cost $1220.70