Created in celebration of the Chevrolet Beretta’s role in the 74th running of the Indianapolis 500, the 1990 Chevy Beretta Indy Pace Car Edition is a classic special edition model that’s carved out its own niche of enthusiasts and admirers. Now, this particular well-preserved example was sold on Bring A Trailer for $12,000.
With a mere 2,739 miles on the clock, it’s not too surprising this Chevy Beretta Indy Pace car is in such great shape. Bought new from Ronnie Blye Chevrolet in Denison, Texas, this one-owner vehicle was kept in a museum for the majority of its life. In 2019, it went to a dealer in Tempe, Arizona, before being auctioned on Bring A Trailer in late September, 2020.
The vehicle is all-original, with the exception of new front tires, an oil change, and a new battery.
Outside, this Chevy Beretta is covered in Turquoise Metallic paint, which is matched with gray cloth in the cabin space. The exterior sports special Indy 500 Edition graphics, which adds an aesthetic that’s pure ‘90s to the mix. The exterior also shows off with a rear spoiler, plus a color-matched lower air dam and side skirts. Between the skirts are 16-inch alloy wheels, which also get a splash of turquoise coloring.
The interior comes with a leather-wrapped two-spoke steering wheel and further turquoise striping along the seats. This particular example also comes with the optional digital instrumentation, which includes a vertical tachometer and speedometer, plus several other readouts for various engine vitals.
Motivation is provided by a naturally aspirated 3.1L V6 gas engine, which produced 135 horsepower and 180 pound-feet of torque when new. Output is routed to the front axle by way of a three-speed automatic transmission.
Per the original window sticker, this particular model was priced at $17,141 when new.
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Source: Bring A Trailer
Comments
It’s amazing how our taste in cars have evolved over the past 30 years as the Chevrolet vehicle which replaces the Chevrolet Beretta is the Chevy Equinox CUV as the two vehicles are about the same in size and are targeting the same group of customers.
I like my Beretta PX4 Storm a bit better! lol
It’s more of a Time capsule than Classic which was ok then and ok now if your into these types of vehicles, $12K ???
Nothing says 1990 like teal and hot pink.
I believe that the car you are showing is a Lumina. The Beretta was a not so successful model of a Camaro
Obviously you must be young, other than the 3.1 engine and trans this is nowhere near a Lumina. Not to mention the “Beretta” name on the back of the car.
Wow, the Beretta and Corsica were extremely popular at that time, and it’s surprising anyone could have confused them with the much larger Lumina.
As for the Camaro Berlinetta, that was earlier.
Where are my parachute pants?
Several years out of date by this point.
no historical or collector value just another piece of 80s designed junk that should be erased from anyone’s memory bank
I owned the 4 door version of the Beretta; the Corsica. It was acually a pretty good car! I put over 200.000 thousand miles on before I gave it to a charity.
Berettas or Z24s with V6 and 5spd manual were a lot of fun for a 16 year old kid back in those days, how is that 30 yrs ago?!?
Um, 2020 – 1990 = 30.
Unless you meant something else.
I had a Z24 variant as a kid…The teals and yellows on cars in the 90s were “retro” and relatively polorizing at the time. A person either loved or hated the trend. The sad part of this story is that it wasn’t a manual 4 cylinder GTZ version of the beretta that was put in a time capsule…..That variant was ahead of its time, and would be well worth the 12k today..
Love it, not quite as nice as mine, even with lower miles as my dash is perfect. I always did say these special edition early late models would get their due. The Beretta looks better than anything GM is making today. The whole Terminator look was awful when it was introduced and keeps getting worse as the new Silverado is hideous. I was a Junior in High School when these came out. Noone wanted a Camaro, everyone wanted a Beretta. Those were good times. It was a lot more fun going new car shopping back then. The only car Chevy has produced in recent years I actually like was the ’15 Cruze RS which was still available in ’16 with Classic monitor added. I felt GM dropped the ball with the Cruze, they really could have made that car compete with these tuner kids with their WRX.
Hello Beretta Billy,
We would like to hear about your car. What year and model of the Beretta do you have? Is it manual or auto?
Bought one for my son at a wrecker auction for $500, it was well worth the money, but he couldn’t keep it going.. should have kept it and drove it myself, it got a lot of looks 5 years ago!