Episode
Wheeler Dealers: 2002 Corvette C5 Z06
Overview
Mike finds a 2002 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 with over 400 hp and zero to sixty in under four seconds; it's a road-legal race car, but Ant is less than enthused when he realizes the scale of the work needed to help it regain those impressive numbers.
Details
- Series
- Wheeler Dealers
- Season
- Season 16
- Episode
- Episode 6
- Air date
- 2018-11-07
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
2002 Corvette C5 Z06 is Episode 6 in Season 16 of Wheeler Dealers. It aired on 2018-11-07. The runtime is 45 min.
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