Stunning 1964 Corvette convertible, matching numbers

Make:	Chevrolet
Model:	Corvette
Type:	Convertible
Trim:	convertible
Year:	1964
Mileage:	79,700
Color:	Black
Transmission:	Standard
Drive type:	4 speed
Interior color:	Red
Vehicle Title:	Clear
Item location:	Vero Beach, Florida, United States

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1964 Chevrolet Corvette RoadsterULTRA RARE FACTORY COLOR COMBINATION OF TUXEDO BLACK EXTERIOR (900) AND RED INTERIOR (490)Five Texas owners since new - owner one in College Station. owner two in Bryan. owner three in San Antonio and owners 4 and 5 in Austin. Believed to be 79. 00 original miles. Ultra rare factory color codes of 900 Tuxedo black exterior and 490 red interior. The car is a low option car with only PS and AM/FM. Soft top only. Numbers matching RD 327/300 horsepower with a 4 speed. The car has been driven sparingly over the past nearly 20 years. In 1997. it had 68. 67 miles and thus only traveled 11. 00 miles since 1997. I have photos from owner three in San Antonio from when he completed a frame-on restoration himself in 1995. Owner four completed a professional full photo documented frame on restoration in June 2011 at Austin Corvette at a cost of over $22. 00 which included paint and interior. Many regular maintenance items completed such as front end rebuild in 1998. new exhaust in 2002. rear end and bearings in 2006. new convertible top in 2007. new radiator and clutch in 2010. Due to the extreme summer heat in Austin. car now has a high performance alum radiator with dual electric fans. I have the original fan shroud if you wanted to reinstall. Never gets above 185 degrees in current set-up. Runs. shifts and drives great. Lots of receipts. Over 24k in receipts from owner 4. besides the restoration done by owner 3. No other documentation from the early years. As owner three has shared with me. he bought the car in Bryan. X from owner two who was a pharmacist. Owner two bought the car from the original owner who drove the car until it stopped running. Owner two wanted to restore the car and thus disassembled it only never to restore it. Owner three bought the car and restored himself in San Antonio. He said he couldn't believe he found a black/red low mileage numbers matching roadster. He completed the restoration and sold the car to a dealer in Austin who quickly sold it to owner 4 in Austin in 1997. I purchased this great car only 3 months ago. I've had only had the chance to drive it a few times. I can honestly say it drives like a dream. It's an amazing car with no known issues. Life can throw you a curve ball and things change so I've decided to sell my collection. I'm also selling my 1971 Camaro Z28 which is also listed on ebay. That being said. this is no fire sale. I am in no hurry to part with this beauty. I have a letter from owner 3 describing the history of the car. If you would like to have a copy just email me. It's quite an interesting look into the car's past. The car is for sale locally and I reserve the right to sell the car for the first acceptable cash offer. Title in hand. Do not contact me to sell me anything or offer to help me sell my 1964 roadster. Serious only please. This is a used car with normal used car stuff like a scuff or small minor scratch (paint is wonderful). No warranty. Sold as-is. where-is and final-sale. I have done my best to describe the car accurately. Pre-purchase inspection is welcomed. Thank you for your time. On Feb-11-15 at 12:05:38 PST. seller added the following information:Below is a letter from Owner 3. I have kept his contact info off for this listing. After he sold the car in1997. owner 4 put an additional 24k into the Corvette. nbsp; Those receipts will go to the new owner. I bought the 64 vette around 1987-1988 time frame. I believe I paid $12. 00 for it. I found the car in the Auto Trader and purchased it from a pharmacy owner in Bryan TX near Texas A&M. His privately owned pharmacy was on Texas Ave in Bryan near a Whataburger. The car was a complete numbers matching car and was not missing any parts. so unless somebody took something off the car. the motor. transmission. rear end. radiator. alternator. radiator overflow tank. windshield wiper motor. intake. exhaust manifolds. etc. are all numbers matching and date coded correctly for the month this car was produced. To be honest. I can’t remember but I think it was produced in the June timeframe so it was a late build for 1964 before the 65 models came out. It was not running and was partially disassembled. It had 68. 00 original miles on it when I purchased it. The pharmacy owner had bought it from the original owner with the intentions of restoring it himself but he never got to it. He told me he had purchased the car from the original owner in 1976 and kept it 9-10 years when I bought it from him. So. I was the third owner of the car. The colors on the car and interior are correct as Black and red if you check out the color codes under the dashboard. Also. you may notice that the car has aluminum valve covers. The original 300 hp vets in 1964 came with painted orange valve covers with a 300HP gold and black sticker on them. What I found out in talking with other corvette restorers was that Chevy at times ran short on supplies in the early 60’s and they had seen similar instances where different valve covers and sometimes carburetors were used when supplies ran short. So you seem to have an instance where you got valve covers on this car that were meant for a higher horsepower motor but used on your car in the production cycle due to necessity. It may have been the case that the car was nearing the end of the production cycle for 1964 in June and the engine shop just used what they had to finish out the run before shutting the plant down to retool for the 65 models. Pretty cool huh!I had a company called Kendrick automotive rebuild the short-block on this car. They balanced the motor taking special care not to deck the block. otherwise the matching numbers would have been shaved off in the decking process. So whatever miles you have on this car. the motor was basically brand new and rebuilt at 68. 00 miles. I rebuilt the rest of the motor. carburetor. etc. . on the engine myself. I took the transmission out and had a guy take a look at it. and it was in good shape. He only changed out a couple seals. and replaced the fluid in it. I put all new brakes. and lines on the car when I restored it. The car basically was restored from the ground up. although it was just a body on restoration. I never took the body off. I painted it myself with 10 coats of black lacquer and topped it off with 13 coats of clear lacquer. then buffed it out myself. It was a pretty spectacular finish when it was done but have no idea how it looks after 25 years. I have been painting cars since I was 16 and this car finish was one of my best. I’ll tell you that I didn’t find any body damage at all when prepping the car for paint so this car was a virgin body when I got my hands on it in 1987. I sent the gauges. seat belts. clock. windshield washer motor. and alternator out to be restored because I wanted to keep the original pieces on the car and didn’t want to replace them and lose the date codes they had. A local radiator shop cleaned up the radiator for me. The seats and convertible top were recovered and put on by a local shop in San Antonio that specializes in classic car upholstery. They even were able to duplicate the cross double stitching on the seats so they matched the original stitching that Chevrolet used at that time. All the rubber on the convertible top and doors were replaced with NOS (new old stock components) . The carpet was aftermarket and bought from a corvette supplier. The dashboard and door panels are the originals. They were so clean and in such good shape. I left them intact and only used reproduction red dye to re-dye the original components since they didn’t have one crack or tear in them. They were a little faded from the sun and old age but otherwise in great shape. The windshield had to be replaced due to a crack in it from a rock or debris from the highway hitting it at some point before I purchased the car. It wasn’t a big crack. but I wanted it to look like new so I replaced the windshield. All the other glass in the car is original. The bumpers were the originals and I had them re- chromed. The emblems on the car are NOS parts as well. The old emblems fell apart during deconstruction of the car. The hub caps are the originals. I seem to remember replacing two of the spinners due to chips in them. The radio in the car is the original. It wasn’t working when I hooked it up. Fortunately I work for AT&T and knew an old timer that used to rebuild old tube type radio and microwave equipment for us. I took him the radio out of the vette and he had it fixed and working in no time. When I sold the car I think I had right at $20. 00 invested in it. I sold it for $25. 00 in 1997 time frame I believe. I sold it to a car dealer in Austin. They said they were going to put it in their showroom. A representative came down to San Antonio with a car hauler. spent a couple hours verifying the cars numbers and authenticity. then he handed me a cashier’s check and loaded it up and drove away. I hadn’t seen the car since until you sent me the picture of it in your garage a few months ago. I think if I had to quantify my labor. I probably worked for about $2 an hour to restore that car. I spent a lot of time on it. HA-HAOn Feb-12-15 at 17:34:28 PST. seller added the following information:Below is a video that I made today. it is an amateur effort at best. Using only my smart phone the video and audio quality is lacking. This car is stunning in person. There is no way pictures or a video can capture how nice this car really is. https://vimeo. com/119503894