293 Original Miles: BARN FIND Corvette Pace Car | First Wash in 45 Years! | Satisfying Restoration

the last Corvette we found in this

garage had

1,599 Mi we told you the next car was

going to be more spectacular come look

is a 1978 25th Anniversary Corvette pace

car the other car had 1,599 Mi this has

293 I like the body on this car a lot

more than the other car actually this

big wing on here and the body flar is

beautiful I really want to check out the

interior I was told that this one's

basically rafted plastic which is nuts

let's see what it looks

like oh

man wow this thing smells basically like

a new car this is insane I can't believe

the plastic is still in here dude from

the from the factory what's crazy is

again this one has 293 Mi it's the pace

car it has the aesthetic and everything

there's one behind me that's even

crazier than this one I don't know how

we found these we struck gold finally

all right well there's nothing left to

do then uh pump these tires up remove

everything from underneath the car and

uh and roll it over to safely so we can

brush out all this debris so as we put

air in these tires this car has not

moved since 1986 which we'll touch on

that a little bit more later but a lot

of people on the last Corvette asked the

backstory on these and basically the

owner bought them as Investments brand

new and he put them in his garage hoping

that over time they would go up in value

and now he's deciding that he thinks he

might want to start selling them but

here's what I asked you guys in the last

video that I want to ask you again leave

a comment down below what do you think

that this car is worth again it's a 1978

pace car with only 293 original miles so

I would assume that the price would be a

little bit more than average but you

guys let me know your thoughts and

lastly we're trying to make the final

push to a million subscribers on the

last Corvette only 10% of people who

watched the video were subscribed which

means 90% of you watching are not

subscribed so if you enjoy these videos

and you want to see the final Corvette

of this Trilogy which is the craziest

maybe lowest mileage Corvette in the

entire world you don't want to miss that

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Channel all right so we made it back

with the second Corvette and like I said

this one is even more special than the

last this is a 1978 pace car with again

293 Mi which is you know five times less

than the other 25th anniversary car that

we did but this one's even more special

being that it's a pace car it is a

limited edition car and it also has the

L82 performance package so we'll get

into that a little bit later but this

did have more horsepower than that base

model 25th anniversary and then you get

a couple nice little styling cues like

this little Chevy bow tie under the

driver and passenger locking cylinder

and then you get some nice ground

effects like this big front lip the

other one did have a front lip but

nowhere near as big and aggressive as

that one first thing I want to show you

guys which I didn't even realize this

car had this T-top is actually glass and

I didn't realize that until I got into

the car and helped RJ move it into the

trailer cuz it's completely covered I

couldn't see anything let me show you

guys inside real quick if you can see up

there you can see that is glass it's

just so dirty you can barely see through

it and then the back end the spoiler I

love it the other car had no spoiler on

it so C3 Corvettes I think the back end

looks just kind of odd without a spoiler

and I think this really ties the back

end together and makes it look real

tough real mean this Corvette came with

this cute little Corvette Beauty plate

the font of the Corvette actually

matches the Corvette font with the

badging on the Brier which I think is

kind of cool but before we wash it we're

going to go ahead and remove this vanity

plate that way we can make sure we clean

everything

underneath wao spider Condominiums over

here all right guys I'm going to go grab

lunch I'll be back in

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it's time to get back to that Corvette

pace

car so I really love these red lines

along the wheels but these wheels are

absolutely filthy and that's where we're

going to get started we got to get these

wheels cleaned up first before we start

washing this car so just like the last

Corvette the way we're going to be

cleaning these wheels is a little bit

unorthodox so we're going to clean the

face on the ground and then when we put

it up on our scissor lift we're going to

be able to take them off to clean the

Treads and clean the inside of the

barrels as well as the wheel wells that

way we can get 100% of this car cleaned

and delivered back to the owner when

it's done

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and now we're going to start pressure

washing the car by first using our

pre-rinse Puro which you can get at Puro

Car Care .c if you guys are interested

in an allpurpose cleaner that's safe on

your car but watch as we start to lay

this APC down you can see all those

years of dirt and dust start to lift off

and then when we start to pressure wash

it all way it's so satisfying to see the

actual paint come back

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now this is for the people who are new

to the channel if you're wondering why

we didn't start on the roof and we work

our way down it's because if we started

on the roof and we sprayed that first

all of these clips that you're seeing

now would have gotten ruined by the

water spraying it away and that would

basically get rid of the entire point of

this video pressure washing the car off

in the real world we would start on the

roof and spray it all from top to bottom

but because we do these shots one by one

that's just not how it works out for

what we do so I figured I'd explain it

to you if you've never heard me tell you

guys that before

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and now we can finally see what those

beautiful glass tea Toops look like

underneath is dirt

and really quickly we're also going to

get the gas cap area cleaned out as well

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on to the engine bay of this Corvette so

the last Corvette we had was a base car

with a 57 V8 that had 180 horsepower

this is the L82 V8 so it's the same size

but it has 220 horsepower an easy way to

tell these apart is when you open the

hood the la2 has two intake Vents and

the base car I think that's an L48 has a

single one but we're going to open this

up and see if anything made it in here

or if it's as clean as the other car

was H it's like new

still

wow hey it feared better the ascar uh

somebody made it in here though there's

a little bit of something in here there

I think it's a kernel of corn so let's

get that vacuumed out and back together

and then we'll get this engine bay

cleaned

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up before we start getting this engine

bay cleaning up I will have to mention

that we will not be putting any power to

this Corvette usually in some of our

older videos you would see we put Power

to them to try to start them up or play

with the lights or whatever open and

close a window but this is a rare car

with a very low mileage and the owner

does not want us to put any power to it

so sadly we won't be able to pop up the

headlights and clean those on this car

and we won't be able to get it running

for you on camera today sadly but we're

going to get this cleaned up and

hopefully they'll get fixed up and we'll

be able to see them running soon

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while I drive this car I'm going to send

you guys over to our good buddy John

saos for a new segment of our show we

call saos Corner he's going to teach you

guys a little bit of history about the

space

car Johnny Sabo here owner of bullet

performance and your favorite Automotive

consultant I was brought in today

discuss the 1978 Corvette every year

they pick up domestic vehicle

exclusively to Pace the greatest

spectacle in racing which is the Indie

500 1978 was the first year that

Corvette was given that honor they made

a whole commemorative addition to it I

mean there there's a year where

Corvettes they had crazy paint themed

stickers this is the first time they did

that they made a special paint theme

black over silver red pinstriped silver

interior with a kind of an oyster effect

there was an arrow package of a rear

spoiler and a front air dam along with a

commemorative decal package if you

really wanted to play pace car jump on

the highway jump in front of your

buddies and lead them lead them to your

favorite Bor or event let's go back then

you saw these cars you didn't see

Lamborghinis and Ferraris on every

corner if you saw a pace car come up

everybody knew what it was it was

instantly recognizable back then the

price for this option was $4,300 which

$4,300 1978 is a lot of money $4,300 now

is like stitching in a Porsche so I mean

it

it's so I mean it it doesn't go a long

way anymore the average Corvette was

about $910,000

MSRP this commemorative pace car package

added $4,300 and we're talking about

over 40% upcharge for a pace car Livery

that's crazy thank you guys for letting

me ramble on the 78 pace car I really

enjoyed it if you guys need any

consultation um you can reach me on

Instagram at # Johnny Sabo that's j n n

y AO now let's get back to these guys

taking that pace car from a zero to a

hero now moving on to the interior of

this Corvette one thing that you cannot

ignore is this bright silver everywhere

just how that other Corvette had red

interior I think this is the only car

I've ever seen like to have a true

silver finish not gray that's quite

interesting but this thing is so low

mileage he left the plastic on the SE

seats to it this is original from GM so

we're going to have to remove all this

to clean them up but we're going to save

this for the owner they want us to keep

all that kind of stuff these seats are

in such incredible condition I've seen

low mileage Corvettes for sale but they

always have wear in the seats and if you

actually pan down check this out Brent

look at this this is perfect just a

little bit of scuffs from the rodents

that were're in here but this is in such

good shape you never see something like

this and you can see the placard here in

the middle that displays is the 25th

Anniversary Corvette limited edition

what the owner had told us was that this

car he bought it used actually with only

100 Mil on it he kept it in his garage

and he let his I think it's niece or

nephew not too sure take it to

homecoming in in 1986 and there's a

little placard from the homecoming car

show from there which is pretty neat

we're pretty sure that this is the last

time this was driven he said after they

brought it home from this event that he

just parked in the garage and never

drove it again before we get into the

cleaning of this Corvette I just want to

see if we find any goodies in the glove

box so let's

see dang why is the glove box set up

different than the other car this

doesn't have like an eight track player

or something to the YouTube peoples what

is this I have no idea it looks like it

could either hold cassettes or like

eight tracks but this doesn't have that

feature unless it has it in the trunk

somewhere or something so if you know

why this Corvette has this cuz the other

one did not and it's the same year what

does this hold now with the seats out we

can see what's in this boxy box Mike's

going to dig through that but what I

noticed immediately after he moved the

box was there's this little handle that

uh was just sitting back here and uh I

know exactly where this goes because I

knew where it went on the other Corvette

and unfortunately it goes to the luggage

what would you call it the luggage Hider

or the thing that pulls out that hides

the luggage what how did that come off I

have no idea but it's off and uh I don't

even know it looks like it's like

screwed in something like like yeah so

we're going to have to reattach this

hopefully we can find bolts that fit and

then this goes around this what's this o

here's a little black screw okay that

looks like a possible candidate you're

right you're totally right all right we

found one out of two screws we got to

hunt for that other one let's see if we

come we're on an unboxing Channel now

look at that what okay I didn't expect

this so this is the original cover that

comes when you buy the Corvette new W

okay that's pretty I've never seen

something like that

decals I think this must be this these

might be the decals that go with the

pace cars but all the pace cars usually

come with big decals on the side of them

and I believe Chevy either installs them

from the factory or you can choose to

have them not installed and they just

give them to you that must be what this

is yes so these are the original

stickers that were never installed on

the car wow that's pretty cool official

62nd annual Indianapolis 500 mile race

wow yep so that's pretty sweet I was

wondering where these were on the car

cuz every time I looked up any of the

pace cars they always had these decals

so it was up to your discretion if you

wanted to install them or not I had to

take a picture of this y all right now

if this isn't the most classic car owner

thing that I've ever seen an

antique an antique auto is like another

man's wife look and admire but do not

touch and here is actually the guide to

install all of these as well these been

just sitting here oh that's cool so what

is so that's the oh cool and then it

even says The Limited addition that was

I think uh assembled at the plant so

they just put that on there there can

you imagine how many people didn't have

the dealer do it or the Manu and then

it's just

like I don't know if any of you ever

installed large decals on cars but

they're very easy to mess up flipping

hard man so now we're going to check

under door number one two and three

one's a batter air compartment one is

like a storage spot and then one houses

more storage and the Jack put my handy

dandy mask on CU everyone yells at me

when I don't put it on and we're going

to look under door number

oh rats literal rats you know what we're

missing out of this car that I just

realized we don't have the sheets for

the um t-tops and we really really

really want to find the T-top sheets

here let's pray and hope oh that's what

I'm talking about baby that's a complete

car and another Nest that was to be

expected all right we'll throw that out

real quick and we'll get to vacuuming

now while we're vacuuming I want you

guys to try to take a guess what all the

brown staining in the carpet is we'll

tell you a little bit later before we

extract it all

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now here's the best way I've found to

clean all three of these back

compartments first we're going to remove

everything from them and vacuum them

completely then we're going to use our

Puro with a drill brush to really work

it into the compartment and because they

have drain plugs we're going to use our

extractor and spray it all down and then

suck out as much water as we can and

then we're going to go back afterward

with an extractor soap spray that in and

do the same exact thing again which is

going to help rid it of any scent that

the mice left over and lastly we're

going to use a Ceramic spray sealant as

a protectant with a microfiber towel to

get it all nice and dry maybe this is a

little bit Overkill but we like to be

super thorough and they turned out

really nice and they smelled good

afterwards when mice were definitely

living in there

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so we actually worked next to an

exterminator SL Pest Control business

and one of the guys that works over

there came over to look at the Corvette

and then he let us know that these are

actually Mouse Trails apparently mice's

skin is very oily and greasy and so you

can actually see where their bodies run

in these lines cuz they take the same

path over and over and over again so

that's why you're getting this Browning

you can actually see where they run all

the way back and it looks like in this

case run across and then go up and back

there we can see that piece of uh carpet

that's falling off the speaker Grill

yeah it's cool I had no idea I've worked

on Plenty of cars and I never knew what

those lines were but you learn something

new every day

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and now we're going to clean out the

carpets all we're going to use is Puro

with a drill brush and then hot water in

the extractor and it's going to

significantly improve the look of this

carpet unfortunately it doesn't come out

100% I would say about 98% but that's

about what you have to accept when

things sit in the carpet staining it

over the course of 45 years

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between this seat and the last seat

there's a lot of key differences one it

has this sweet little carpeted piece on

the back and I wonder if it's velcro no

it's gluon that's completely different

and the whole entire styling of the seat

is different as well don't they have the

headrest on the other one this one is a

lot more flat it's actually bigger

bolsters that would suck in uh it's more

of a bucket seat whereas the other ones

were kind of just more of like a a

touring seat I guess one thing I had

noticed on the last Corvette that I

noticed on this one as well is that

these seats are identical twins even to

the side that the uh seat adjuster is on

apparently GM decided that it's easier

to make one seat and put it on both

sides of the car and save money than

having to develop two you know

completely different seats like

manufacturers do today but again for for

anyone that's doubting the actual

mileage of this car oh wow so you can't

even see the foam underneath completely

different Design This is like a plastic

frame I've never seen that I mean yeah

it's it looks it's brand new it's the

cushions are all or the the foam is

still super super soft but even the

spring like has no rust everything about

these are just pristine perfect it's a

time capsule

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and while we have our handy table out

we're going to go ahead and clean this

insert from the back of the car and the

floor mats so we don't have to bend over

and hurt our backs

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and now we're going to raise the

Corvette up on our scissor lift so we

can take the wheels off and clean the

tread and the inside of the barrels and

as you'll notice the tread is still

super dirty so that's why we did this

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and of course we can't forget about the

oxidized and Rusty luug nuts which we

can polish right

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up all right Mike here here I wanted to

check out the bottom of this Corvette

before we get it all cleaned up and it's

in better shape than the last one that's

for sure it seems to have less rust than

the last car I'm not sure if that's

because of the position of this car in

the garage or what exactly but you can

see the various tags still in place from

the factory it's just in incredible

shape it looks seriously brand new it

looks like someone put that on yesterday

that's pretty incredible for being from

1978 this thing is going to look pretty

prim and proper once we're done cleaning

it up and that's not a job for me that's

a job for someone else who could it

be ooh dude that's a that's a fine fine

get up you got going great My Fit I

added a couple things like the minute

work safety safety jacket you're looking

good I I'll give you I'll give you about

an 82 on this one 82 out of 10 82 we'll

see I'll raise the score if you don't

get wet in your nether

regions well going to fail all right

let's see how RJ handles this

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and you guys should be really proud of

us cuz if you watch the first Corvette

youd know that we couldn't get the spare

wheel down but on this one we figured it

out so we could get it Down clean the

wheel clean inside of there and put it

back

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all right RJ let's see how you fared all

right so if anyone hasn't seen the last

Corvette vid I got really wet in the two

places you don't want to get wet and

this

time nice look at that dry the bone that

suit did its job and now we're going to

clean the wheel wells put the tires back

on and then throw Tire dressing on them

to really make them

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pop and the last thing we're going to do

before we put the car back on the ground

is the tailpipe so we're going to use

some metal polish with some steel wool

and rust remover and it's not going to

make it look brand new but it's going to

make it look a lot better than if we

left the rust on

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