McGarrett the C7 (Kirsty & Sean’s)
The purchase of a C7 came almost by accident, as some people are aware Kirsty put in 2 entries for us in the Nationals lottery to purchase a C8 and my entry came in second, so the black C8 went to someone else, who has since put the car up for sale at $300,000.
In the meantime Kirsty then put us on the waiting lists at numerous GMSV dealers around Australia for a C8, despite the fact we were looking at a 5 to 10 year waiting list because the flippers market has to be satisfied first. The decision was made that if we got to order a new car, it would be white.
Then one evening I just happened to be perusing all the flipped C8 Corvettes on Carsales and noticed, quite by accident, a white C7 Z06. This car had only just been advertised by a prestige car dealer in Melbourne. I slid my laptop around to show her and she nearly slid off the seat. It was love at first sight.
After a conversation with the salesman, a holding deposit was paid, and we flew to Melbourne the next Tuesday. The salesman warned me that the car was very loud, he fired it up and yep, it was very loud. I jumped into the seat and re set the muffler sound control on the stereo, to which he replied “how the hell did you do that?” He was even more amazed when I showed him the gun safe.
An examination of the car on a hoist showed it had been fitted with stainless long tube headers and new exhaust system, but there were no catalytic converters fitted, hence the extra noise. The car had been dyno tuned at Harrop Engineering in Melbourne and made 600 horsepower at the wheels. After a couple of spins around the block the deal was done. The exhaust was fitted with new high flow Cats and the car trucked to Adelaide.
We then had to let Jim and Catherine know the good news, that they were about to become the new owners of Jack the C6 Z06. My ’73 Kawasaki 900 was sent off to Auction. Someone has to pay the ferryman.
After some messing around with the tint, registration approval was sorted at Lonsdale. As is the custom at our house, the car needed a name. McGarrett was settled on, named after the cool tough white guy from Hawaii Five-0.
McGarrett is a 2016 C7 Z06, it has the supercharged 6.2 LT4 engine, coupled to the 8 speed auto which has manual and auto shifting. The car was brought to Australia and converted in 2018 by Corvette Clinic in Melbourne. It has had 2 previous Australian owners, the last being the Zamel jewellery family. Since purchasing we have replaced the brake rotors and pads, had the trans fluid changed over to the upgraded Mobil1 synthetic, window tint replaced and ceramic coated the paint.
