Can you identify this Corvette? *NM*

[Joseph T.]

[Ralph A.]

Re: Can you identify this Corvette?

Looks like the prototype for the corvair.
Ralph

[Mike E.]

Re: Can you identify this Corvette?

Certainly. That's the Harry Mann Chevrolet-only car with 6 taillights, no front license assembly, and the tuck and roll interior from the factory. Also has the factory-original 14" wheels, teardrop hood installed in St. Louis, and the base motor with the original finned valve covers. (I'll pull my tongue out of my cheek in a minute---sometimes get tired of all the "I know my car came from the factory that way" fictionalized stories designed to make my car both factory-original and the way I like it now.)

[Gordon Peterson #4961]

Re: Can you identify this Corvette?

Ah yes, the 1960 rear-engine Corvette based on the Corvair layout and power train. What might have been, huh? Isn't that the rarely seen Lemon GTX 2+2 5000 in the background there? Never quite caught on either.

Pete

[Joseph T.]

Re: Can you identify this Corvette?

Look at the bumpers, the corvette letters on the trunk area etc..

[Art A.]

Re: Can you identify this Corvette?

Joe, that is a Styling clay mock up designed by Larry Shinoda and I don't think it had a name per se. I have more pictures of it and as soon as I figure out how to post them I will. It was done in late 1959.

Art

[Joseph T.]

Re: Can you identify this Corvette?

Art

This is a great forum for members to share Corvette history by posting photos. Once you figure out the process it is really gratifying..as other members can then enjoy what would otherwise just be sitting in a file.

I use Cox and they provide a web service that allows me to upload a saved picture on my desktop. Then click and hilite the file name ..right click to copy and then go to the ncrs message board and post the file name in the optional image box.

I had help from my son to get it figured out..but your friend on the island can show you.

Art..I need your help to find a 57 Chevrolet press kit. The Nassau/Daytona car is featured the Jam Handy film included in the press kit. Do you anyone that worked at the Detroit Jam Handy studio?

Also..I am very close to finding the sister car.

[Edward Boyd]

Re: Can you identify this Corvette?

From the size of the driver relative to the vehicle it seems too small to be a Corvette. Add in the rear vents and I'll bet it is a Corvair styling exercise using appropriately downsized elements intended for the 1961 Corvette which would have been in design by the date of the picture.

[mike cobine]

Re: Can you identify this Corvette?

If you check page 139 of "Corvette: America's Star Spangled Sports Car", you will find the same basic car in an artist's sketch. It was a proposal to build a rear engine Corvette using Corvair parts in the late '50s after the Q-Corvette proposal died.

The Q-Corvette lost due to lack of the full-sized Q-sedans to supply parts cheaply, however Duntov convinced Cole that they had the parts to create a rear engine Corvette, based on the Corvair platform. This was the desired design anyway, as the desire was to put the weight distribution between 47/53 and 40/60 Front/Rear. He compared the Q-Corvette of moving the transmission as similar to just moving the battery. His desire was to move the engine also, which this design did.

There was resistance from the designers who were reluctant to give up the long nose sports car look. This one was dropped in 1960.

[Art A.]

Re: Can you identify this Corvette?

Oh good, then you will need TWO copies of the WO!

AA

[Joseph T.]

Re: Can you identify this Corvette?

Very Funny!