Vehicle Description
1966 Chevrolet Corvette For Sale. 327 cubic inch V8 engine,
aluminum intake, road exhaust, 4 speed manual transmission, power
steering, 4 wheel disc brakes, factory A/C car, 15" knockoff wheels
with BF Goodrich Silvertown gold stripe tires, Milano maroon
exterior, black convertible top, Saddle bucket seat interior,
factory style shifter, AM radio. The Mid-Year corvettes are
undeniably the most exciting Corvette ever built and this beautiful
example is ready for fun!!! Mid Year Corvette History: The 1963
Sting Ray production car's lineage can be traced to two separate GM
projects: the Q-Corvette, and perhaps more directly, Mitchell's
racing Sting Ray. The Q-Corvette, initiated in 1957, envisioned a
smaller, more advanced Corvette as a coupe-only model, boasting a
rear transaxle, independent rear suspension, and four-wheel disc
brakes, with the rear brakes, mounted inboard. Exterior styling was
purposeful, with peaked fenders, a long nose, and a short, bobbed
tail. Meanwhile, Zora Arkus-Duntov and other GM engineers had
become fascinated with mid and rear-engine designs. It was during
the Corvair's development that Duntov took the mid/rear-engine
layout to its limits in the CERV I concept. The Chevrolet
Experimental Research Vehicle was a lightweight, open-wheel
single-seat racer. A rear-engined Corvette was briefly considered
during 1958-60, progressing as far as a full-scale mock-up designed
around the Corvair's entire rear-mounted power package, including
its complicated air-cooled flat-six as an alternative to the
Corvette's usual water-cooled V-8. By the fall of 1959, elements of
the Q-Corvette and the Sting Ray Special racer would be
incorporated into experimental project XP-720, which was the design
program that led directly to the production 1963 Corvette Sting
Ray. The XP-720 sought to deliver improved passenger accommodation,
more luggage space, and superior ride and handling over previous
Corvettes. While Duntov was developing an innovative new chassis
for the 1963 Corvette, designers were adapting and refining the
basic look of the racing Sting Ray for the production model. A
fully functional space buck (a wooden mock-up created to work out
interior dimensions) was completed by early 1960, production coupe
styling was locked up for the most part by April, and the interior,
instrument panel included was in place by November. Only in the
fall of 1960 did the designers turn their creative attention to a
new version of the traditional Corvette convertible and, still
later, its detachable hardtop. For the first time in the Corvette's
history, wind tunnel testing helped refine the final shape, as did
practical matters like interior space, windshield curvatures, and
tooling limitations. Both body styles were extensively evaluated as
production-ready 3/8-scale models at the Caltech wind tunnel.