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Anybody here have a copy of the book "Corvette - Portrait of a Legend" by Righard Landworth. There is a picture of a 1967 big block coupe with a silver exterior and a RED interior (and red stinger). The car also has bolt-on wheels with red-line tires and appears to be totally stock. This car is GORGEOUS. Neither Noland Adams nor Mike Antonick show this as a color that could have been generally ordered - yet there it is. Anybody have any information on this car, how the color combination came about, and how many might have been produced?

Nowhere Man

you could order any color combo you wanted. thoes books show recomend color combos that GM listed

Nicky71

I do not have the book you mention, but would love to see the pics.

Here is another silver/red 67 that was owned by a prior owner of my Marina blue 67 327/350. This car is a 427/400, factory A/C, headrest seats, side exhaust, etc. It was a very early Nabers brothers resto done in the early 1980's. Today its wherabouts are unknown...

The last photo is my car together with the silver 67...

SBR

I believe that the silver/red were COPO cars. I know of two roadsters that were copo cars with silver/red one being a 390 car and the other a 400 PG AC car. I spoke with Gary Naber a few weeks ago and he mentioned the coupe pictured and said he does not know where the car went.

Nicky71

SBR,

My post was somewhat of a tease, as the car pictured (a 4-speed, not a PG) was originally a yellow/black car. It was complete color change and frame-off restoration that the Nabers brothers had done. It IS a real 427/400, 4-speed, factory A/C car...

I am in contact with the gentleman who owned the car from ~1982 until 1987. He owned my car during the same time period. Both cars came from Texas to Georgia, via a gentleman whose name (I believe) was Danny Kitchen who sold both cars to my friend. I do not know Danny but I believe he was active in the NCRS during this same period of time.

My friend Chuck said he saw the silver coupe for sale again around 1995, but was not able to buy it back. Since then, it is in the wind...

livin

I have that book and love the pictures..... HOWEVER it also shows a White L71 Coupe with Black interior and A/C.... According to the black book you couldn't order the L-71 with A/C!!!!!!!! the books shows it as stock!!!!

Grey Ghost

I've been racking my brain trying to figure out where I saw the car. Then I remembered....I bought a 1/24 scale, Revell/Monogram, model car a few years ago. The box art is an actual picture of the real car a 67, BB, Silver/Red Coupe.

I never assembled the kit. You can probably still find it at Hobby Stores or Ebay. But, it does show a picture of the real car. The only difference is that it has a USA1 tag on the front.

Just looked at it again - no sidepipes, the instructions say 427/390 HP. The decals are for the license are Calif. plates - 67 390 or 67 390HP. These kits are based on real cars, they view real cars for details, etc...to put into the making of the kit. The kit was released in 1996 - 1997.

Wish I could read the county on Nicks picture of 67 with the Ga. plate.