xp 819 rear engine corvette
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xp 819 rear engine corvette
Hey guys, just sharing this cool link I found about a 1964 rear engine corvette concept. You can really see the C3 design in 1964. Really neat, what is your opinion?http://www.corvettes.nl/gm_prototypes/xp819/
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Help please. After the XP-819 ended up with Smokey Yunick, didn't GM eventually go to Smokey and try to get the car back and/or required him to cut it up? I believe I read something by Karl Ludvigsen to that effect.
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I believe this is true. The car was acutally suppose to appear last year at the Bloomington Gold show but never showed up or it did and I never saw it. Im not sure who owns the car right now or if its even in existence.
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It handled like a bumble bee with a wrecking ball tied to his butt, on a test it almost killed a seasoned driver it was shelved right then.....I heard it was cut both ways......people do build replicas
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Give Kid Vette's article a read, it will explain how Kevin McKay was able to restore the original XP819.
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Yep, this astonishing car is well covered in my new Corvette book, including the amazing story of its rescue and restoration.
I think the restorer didn't have access to those great photos of the car in chassis form. Otherwise he would have rebuilt it accordingly. I didn't have them either! They are awesome!
For a review of my new book click here:
http://www.legendarycollectorcars.co...ed-sports-car/
Karl Ludvigsen
I think the restorer didn't have access to those great photos of the car in chassis form. Otherwise he would have rebuilt it accordingly. I didn't have them either! They are awesome!
For a review of my new book click here:
http://www.legendarycollectorcars.co...ed-sports-car/
Karl Ludvigsen
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Yep, this astonishing car is well covered in my new Corvette book, including the amazing story of its rescue and restoration.
I think the restorer didn't have access to those great photos of the car in chassis form. Otherwise he would have rebuilt it accordingly. I didn't have them either! They are awesome!
For a review of my new book click here:
http://www.legendarycollectorcars.co...ed-sports-car/
Karl Ludvigsen
I think the restorer didn't have access to those great photos of the car in chassis form. Otherwise he would have rebuilt it accordingly. I didn't have them either! They are awesome!
For a review of my new book click here:
http://www.legendarycollectorcars.co...ed-sports-car/
Karl Ludvigsen
About same time I also bought another cool book...with Mitchell's silver racer on the front.
entitled Corvette. Sports Car of America, limited first edition printing, by MB Anttonic. , this book has beautiful color pages of XP819 as found in Smokeys secret stash in his garage . I also bought this book in college ....see what I was studying ....he hee.
Fred
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