Severed C8: This 2023 Z51 Corvette Quickly Became A Parts Bin

Severed C8: This 2023 Z51 Corvette Quickly Became A Parts Bin

Crashed Corvettes are very much like train wrecks. As hard as it may be to watch, we can’t help but stare and take it all in. Today’s Corvettes are engineered to give their owners many miles and years of service, but some owners choose not to go that route. You saw this C8 owner removing his rear quarter panel rather than wait in traffic. For this particular C8 Corvette, its time was cut extremely short, thanks to an accident that literally cut the vehicle in half!

This 2023 C8 showed up recently on Copart’s North Miami lot and on its website as an “upcoming lot, ” meaning the car will be auctioned in the future. We’re not sure how long it takes for a vehicle to be cleared or what could hold up the process, but whenever this car is offered, it’ll be almost new in theory, if not in appearance.

The car is obviously not driveable, and in the details section of the listing, the primary damage is listed as “frame damage.” We guess that if the front and rear sections of the frame would need to be loaded separately, you could classify it as the most prevalent issue. But because of the split in two, we also get an otherwise impossible view of the front of that LT2 engine.

The exterior of the C8 retains most of its Hypersonic Gray Metallic paint, and that high wing spoiler looks to be intact. Inside, the Black GT1 bucket seats have a few airbags protruding out from behind those perforated covers. The car is a 1LT trim, and by the looks of the interior seams, all of the soft goods have shifted to the right considerably. Even with all of the air-baggery today’s cars have available, we wouldn’t want to have been inside this car when it all went sideways – apparently quite literally.

From Salvage Yard To LT-Swap

Copart listing the secondary damage as “all over” clearly describes the extent of the carnage. While there aren’t many areas throughout this C8 that haven’t been affected, there are still many parts that can go on to live a long, happy life in another vehicle. This car would be an excellent donor for an LT2/DCT transmission swap for perhaps a wheelie-totin’ 1966 Chevy van or a way-cool Corvair project.

The black interior has some funky panel gaps. It's interesting how only some of the airbags deployed in the crash.

The LT2 has some mid-engine uniqueness, and we want to know what YOU would do with this severed C8 and its engine and transaxle. Feel free to let us know in the comments section below. We’re always open to new ideas, and who knows, maybe one of our readers will buy this Corvette when it comes up for auction and do something really cool with it! We’ll have to wait and see!

About the author

Andy Bolig

Andy has been intrigued by mechanical things all of his life and enjoys tinkering with cars of all makes and ages. Finding value in style points, he can appreciate cars of all power and performance levels. Andy is an avid railfan and gets his “high” by flying radio-controlled model airplanes when time permits. He keeps his feet firmly grounded by working on his two street rods and his supercharged C4 Corvette. Whether planes, trains, motorcycles, or automobiles, Andy has immersed himself in a world driven by internal combustion.
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