Vehicle Description
Over 4,000 hours went into this SEMA Gold Top 100 Award-winning
1963 Split-Window Corvette's one-of-a-kind, no-expense-spared,
rotisserie restoration performed by Nostalgia Hot Rods. The
exterior is finished in PPG Pure White paint and features a
hand-fabricated silver carbon-fiber engine bay, Euro flush-mount
glass and LED front and rear lights. Inside is a handmade interior,
by Darren Wingrove of HRH Designs. The one-off interior features
Douglas Interior premium leather products, one-piece headliner, ACC
premium carpet, LED lighting, Dakota Digital HDX gauges and clock,
Nu-Relics power windows, Clayton Machine Works billet pedals,
shifter and door pulls, Flaming River steering column and AGR
performance steering gearbox. Heat and air conditioning is provided
by a Vintage Air Gen IV climate-control system. Rounding out the
interior is a Rockford Fosgate sound system with Bluetooth and
wireless phone charging station to give this classic a modern feel.
At the heart of this Corvette is a GM LS3 376ci hot cam engine
making 525hp breathing through a Holley Sniper intake and exiting a
jet-coated, polished stainless-steel custom exhaust system.
Rounding out the engine bay is a polished billet March serpentine
system with power steering setup, Billet Specialties valve covers
and a Nick Williams polished billet throttle body. The engine is
fed through an Aeromotive Stealth fuel system with custom aluminum
fuel cell. All this power was then mated to a TREMEC T56 Magnum
6-speed manual transmission with LS9 clutch and Dana 44 rear end
with 4.11 gears, making sure the rubber meets the road. This
one-of-a-kind Split-Window Corvette rides on a hand fabricated
chassis engineered for structural integrity and manufactured from
American 3/16 hot rolled, CNC cut steel. Every seem has been fully
TIG-welded and the frame rails fully boxed in order to handle the
upgraded performance included in the modern drivetrain. This
one-off chassis is fitted to a full RideTech adjustable coilover
suspension system with upper and lower strong arms, tall spindles,
inner and outer tie rods arms, front and rear sway bars, rear
trailing arms and Ride Tech's TruTurn system, featuring billet
aluminum steering arms, center link adapter, tie rods and
adjusters. Finally, a Wilwood braking system was fitted with
14-inch cross-drilled and slotted rotors, 6-piston front and
4-piston rear calipers, Wilwood master cylinder and E-stopp
electric emergency brake fed by hand-fabricated brake hard lines
with A/N fittings. This Corvette rides on 18x9 front and 19x12 rear
forged one-off Budnik wheels with knock-off center caps wrapped in
Nitto Invo red-stripe tires.
