Here’s Your Chance To Buy All Chevrolet Corvette Indy 500 Pace Cars

With the Indianapolis 500 right around the corner, the Chevrolet Corvette will once again reprise its role as the official pace car for this year’s race. This time, it’s the maniacal ZR1’s job.

If you’re a ‘Vette fan, you know that the sports car has been the pace car 14 times in the race’s history and you can own every one of those thanks to this Mecum collection.

America’s quintessential sports car has handled the duties of being the pace car for the Indy 500 more than any other vehicle in history. The trend started in 1978 with the C3 Corvette and, While the majority of Corvette fans would be happy to get their hands on a few Corvette Indianapolis Pace Car editions, this avid collector managed to snag them all.

These Corvettes are as rare as it gets

Keith Busse spent roughly 30 years assembling a collection of 16 Corvette Indy 500 pace cars. That’s no typo; Busse has three cars from 2004, which is how he got to own 16 ‘Vettes. Naturally, not all of the vehicles were actually used as pace cars. While he couldn’t get his hands on the real deal for a couple of the model years, he found a way around the issue.

The collector’s Corvettes from 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017 are extremely rare, as pace car editions for those years were never sold to the public. Chevrolet and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway authorized Busse to duplicate the actual pace cars from those years using officially licensed graphics and paint.

The collection of vehicles is also believed to be “the only complete set of Corvette pace car editions in private hands”. From 1978 all the way to 2017, Busse found a way to collect them all. Obviously, a chance to purchase all of the vehicles at one time probably won’t pop up again.

Gotta catch ’em all

Mecum will first try to get an offer for the entire set of 16 vehicles If they don’t, they will start auctioning the cars off individually at their Indy 2018 event that will be being held from May 15 to May 20. If you are one of the winners, they’ll also throw in a pair of free tickets for the 102nd running of the Indy 500 race on May 27.

While Mecum didn’t provide an estimate for the complete lot, they have estimates for how much each vehicle should get if auctioned separately. We took the average price for each of the 16 vehicles and added them all up, and the result was $1,377,500. That’s a whole lotta money, but this collection is definitely worth it.