Friday afternoon saw this 1978 Indy Pace Car Special Edition Corvette roll past.
The Pace Car Special Edition came with the L82 220bhp 350cid V-8. A period test by Road & Track returned a 0-60 time of 6.6 seconds and a 15.3 second quarter at 95mph on the way to a 127mph top speed.
MSRP was $13,653 (sixty grand in today's money), but Chevy's decision to produce enough for every dealership to have one makes this one of the least-limited Limited Editions ever. Chevy hyped its special edition status in advertising, yet when all was said and done, better than one in ten '78 Corvettes was a Pace Car. A quick googling shows there are a ton of really low mileage ones floating around out there, since a lot were bought and parked as "sure-fire future investments" that haven't even halfway kept up with inflation.
