Vehicle Description
NCRS Top Flight 2016, Matching Numbers, 340HP, Restoration
Receipts
Beautiful professional restoration in 2015 including engine and
transmission rebuilds. 1,500 miles since restoration. This Split
window is in the right colors and drives as good as it looks. The
car needs nothing except you behind the wheel.
The 1963 Corvette caused a sensation such that the St Louis
Chevrolet factory hired a second shift, but still could not build
cars fast enough to meet demand. Designed by Art & Colour Studio
chief Bill Mitchell, the new Corvette featured radical styling
pioneered on Mitchell's successful Stingray sports-racer by
designer Larry Shinoda, and for the first time there was a Gran
Turismo coupe in the range. Beneath the skin was an all-new
ladder-frame chassis with independent rear suspension, the work of
Chevrolet Chief Engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov, the adoption of which
enabled the centre of gravity to be significantly lowered,
improving both roadholding and ride. Controversial at the time, the
coupe's divided rear screen would last for one year only; many cars
were subsequently converted to one-piece glass, making the
survivors with this feature the most collectible of all 1963-67
Corvettes.
