ifitgoesfast

How much would you pay for a 4 seater 63 SWC? Back in 1986, when I got my '64, I just turned 16 and wanted to take all my friends for a ride in my 2 seater convertible, but could only stuff a third friend over the compartment behind the seats. If only I had seen one of these for sale...

http://www.corvetteblogger.com/2010/...-window-coupe/

Frankie the Fink

And you would have had an ugly, out-of-proportion, over-longish, monstrosity which could only house small children or double amputees in the rear seats. There is a basic rule in aesthetic design and that is "the rule of thirds" which the 4-seater car would have munged up unforgivably. Now, having said that there was an aftermarket rear seat marketed for a while to go behind the front two in an existing split window. More of a gimmick than anything of practical value.

colo63sw

The back seat of some European sports cars are about as practical as the aftermarket gimmick you mention, take the Jag XK8 for example. The seats are only there for a more favorable tax classification.

Frankie the Fink

I know -- I saw a forum member's Aston-Martin back seat right after he purchased it.
The seat was beyond a joke. It might have held a lunch box or two...

ChattanoogaJSB

I found that taking just one other person was very advantageous in life. If you get my drift. As a matter of fact I rarely folded the rear seat back up in two fourth generation Firebirds I drove for over a decade...

Frankie the Fink

I drove my '66 fastback Mustang in my car pool to Wash DC one time in the mid '90s on a whim. The gal that had to sit in the back seat for an hour and 15 minutes each way threatened me with castration if I ever used it in the car pool again.

vettebuyer6369

desertpilgrim

$3.00, FOB my house.

Powershift

Back in the late 1960's I personally double dated in the back of a friends 1967 Corvette coupe. We went to a drive-in movie. Rather cozy back there.

Larry

Rickenbach

Reminds me of the Porsche Panamara.

Easy Rhino

Larry, just how tall are (were) you? We'll assume that the date was tiny.

MikeM

He wasn't short, he was wadded up under a blanket and him and his date got in for free 'cause they couldn't see him. Cheapskate!

3JsVette

A side from uncomfortable due to lack of adequate room how about sun exposure on a nice hot summer day.............with NO air conditioning?

Powershift

I paid good money to get into the drive-in, but I think my date had a coupon. Times were lean back then. It was on 138th and Halsted Street in South Chicago. Just an empty lot now.

Three years later I married the girl.

Larry

Powershift

Back then about 5'8'' and 130 lbs.

At 20 years old, with a hot date and a cold six-pack you can endure just about anything.

Mike was right about bringing a blanket though.

Larry

tuxnharley

I think it was perhaps a bit ahead of its time. In todays market - albeit they are 4 door sedans - there are successful 4 seat high performance cars that are arguaby high performance sports cars at heart. Namely, the Porsche Panamera and the Aston Martin Rapide.

To my tastes, the 4 seat Corvette doesn't look any more disproportionate than the Panamera. Both are awkward at best.

OTOH, IMHO, the Rapide is absolutely drop dead gorgeous! I'd buy one of those - if i had the money - before I'd spring for the 4 seat Corvette.

fyreline

I agree on the Rapide . . . An absolutely lovely car. However, the C2 iteration of a 4-seater Corvette did not, if I recall the story correctly, make it past the first showing of a full-scale mock-up to GM brass. Supposedly one of them got into the rear seating area and needed substantial assistance to get him out. He walked out without saying a word, and that was the end of the 4-seater Corvette project. It was originally thought that such a car could compete with the 60s T-Bird, but they still seem to be two completely different types of cars to me. No great loss- it appears to have been the proverbial answer to question nobody asked.

sub006

Have only seen C2 coupe kiddy seats 'til the OP picture. Clever of the inventor to use the jack storage area for the seat bottoms, preserving full luggage space behind.

The car apparently isn't stretched, so the driver and right front passenger would have to have extremely short arms and legs, because their seats would have to be all the way forward, maybe even further than stock travel, to accommodate the back seat riders' legs. Maybe a flat steering wheel, too?

ifitgoesfast

http://www.corvetteblogger.com/2010/...-window-coupe/

Easy Rhino

LOL, good one!