Donnybrook Green Corvette Hits with 454 V8 Punch

Floridian Corvette convertible includes numbers-matching 454 and TH400 auto, tank sticker validation letter from the NCRS.

Arriving in the 1968 model year, the C3-era Corvette came out swinging at the peak of the muscle car era. Under the hood, everything from the L30 327 to the L88 427 breathed V8 fire through the dual exhaust. Add in aggressive, stingray-like styling, and you had one mean ‘Vette like never before.

By 1970, the C3 Corvette began its slow slide into Seventies personal luxury, having peaked with the ultra-rare ZL-1 leviathan a year earlier. This example from Bring a Trailer is a wonderful look back to the year Monday Night Football was born.

Leaving the lot of a Pennsylvania Chevy dealer in June 1970, the Corvette convertible is Donnybrook Green on green, plus a white soft top. The super-green backdrop allows the chrome to truly pop. Said backdrop was repainted once before with a previous owner, looking as fine as it did in the day.

Under the hood resides a 454 big block pumping out 390 horses to the rear through the TH400 three-speed automatic. Both the V8 and auto are numbers-matching, logging some 62,000 miles since 1970. Meanwhile, the National Corvette Restorers Society validated the Corvette’s tank sticker some time ago.

Inside, green vinyl seats eagerly await the driver and a lucky companion (though the occupants may want to make sure the sun didn’t warm up anything first). The original AM/FM radio may pull in Jimi Hendrix’s “Voodoo Chile” on occasion, but needs work or replacement to keep the jams going all night long, all night strong. And, if you’re bringing luggage, the chrome rack on top of the “not-trunk” is down to hold it all down.

As the specialty plate suggests, this Corvette is the right ride for a round of 18 on the golf course. It’s certainly as green as the fairways its seller plays upon. Plus, there’s no beating the warmth of the Floridian sun in the winter months with the soft top tucked away under the tonneau. This is a time capsule and a time machine, housing memories of a bygone era under the hood. Let it roll!

Photos: Bring a Trailer