1988 Chevrolet Corvette Base 2dr Convertible

1988 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible â?" L98 5.7L TPI V8, Red on Red, Clean Florida Car Why This Car Is Special The fourth-generation Corvette, introduced for 1984, represented a fundamental rethinking of what the Corvette could be. By 1988, the C4 had matured into a genuinely capable sports car â?" refined enough for daily use, fast enough to embarrass most of what else was on the road. The 1988 Chevrolet Corvette convertible is a particularly desirable variant of that generation because the ragtop body style had only returned to the lineup in 1986, after a ten-year absence. Buyers who wanted an open-air Corvette with the fully developed L98 engine and a sorted-out platform gravitated toward the 1987-1989 window, and for good reason. The L98 engine â?" a 5.