Options are everything when it comes to Corvettes.  Corvette buyers can option out a car to be a luxurious boulevard cruiser, a dragstrip dominator, or a racetrack terror.  This triple black 1960 Corvette for sale on the Pro Team Corvette Sales website is optioned out to be an all go, no show beast on the road or the track.  This perfectly restored convertible is ready for its Bloomington Gold or NCRS Duntov Award.  Can we call this perfectly optioned Corvette a bargain, an investment, or both at the $169,000 asking price?  Thanks go to reader Larry D. for this amazing tip!

Let’s start with the facts.  This Corvette left the assembly line with the following paint and interior options: black exterior, black cove, black top, and black interior.  Mechanically it is a fuel injected car (283 ci with 290 hp), a T-10 4-speed manual transmission, and a 4.11 heavy duty rear end with Posi traction.

In addition to all of the goodies above, you can add to that RPO-687.  Commonly known as the big brake option, only 119 Corvettes in 1960 were built with this box checked on the order form.  It consisted of heavy-duty shocks, finned brake drums, metallic brakes, air scoops, deflectors, vented backing plates, cooling fans, large diameter sway bars, and a quick steering adaptor according to the folks at Pro Team.

The car also boasts an aluminized off road exhaust, dog dish hubcaps, and 6.70×15 black wall tires.  To round out the general Darth Vader level of meanness that this Corvette exudes, it was ordered without a heater or radio.  To say that the original owner meant business would be an understatement.

The ad tells us that the car has been completely restored and is ready for Bloomington and/or NCRS level judging.  As most of you know, this would require all of the part numbers to be correct for the build date of the car.  This is no easy or inexpensive task.

Add to the complexity the possibility that this car was raced at some point, and you can see how rare a car with these options in near perfect condition can be.  Race cars are obviously driven hard, wrecked, beaten on, passed down when they aren’t competitive, etc.  In short, a car like this could have led a hard life, leaving broken and discarded parts in its wake.

Sadly, we don’t know much about the car’s history after it left the factory to crush its enemies, see them driven before it, and hear the lamentations of the other drivers.  The earliest date in the ad references the first receipts in the restoration binder.  This binder documents a flow of restoration cash that started in 2011 and ended this year.

The good news is this Corvette has not been shown previously and is ready for the next owner to write a big check.  At $169,000, that is an awfully big check, but think of all of the restoration headaches that money insulates the buyer from.  You also have to think of this car from an investment standpoint.  If the documentation is correct, then this car will be a very safe place to park a big wad of cash.  If it isn’t worth $169,000 right now, it will be soon with the current rates of inflation.

You would, of course, have to resist driving this Corvette as it was meant to be driven.  That would be the excruciatingly hard part of all of this.

If this car were in your garage, could you resist driving it in anger?  Tell us how you would handle ownership of this triple black beast in the comments.