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Has anyone seen the add on eBay for a silver '55? The owner swears it is an original silver car, and supposedly Nolan Adams confirmed that GM did paint a '55 silver. I've never heard of silver being offered as a factory color option. Does anyone know about this? eBay item # 263735089446.
Has anyone seen the add on eBay for a silver '55? The owner swears it is an original silver car, and supposedly Nolan Adams confirmed that GM did paint a '55 silver. I've never heard of silver being offered as a factory color option. Does anyone know about this? eBay item # 263735089446.
It has been discussed many times before. Many things are not correct with the car including color. Buyer beware.
Notice the 55 on the right second Corvette Silver WOW///////what about the 55 corvette on the left two tone white and red WOW and then everyone says they knows everything that GM did no question
Last edited by 1955 copper; 06-23-2018 at 05:11 PM.
it has been for sale in the Corvette circle for a very long time. There is a buyer for every seat and this one might be for you..
Jay
Considering I've blown my head off on my Harvest gold car, I kind of doubt it at the money that the seller wants. It would have to get a whole lot cheaper for me to be interested.
I know that car VERY well - it was restored a few years ago by a dear friend of mine (Werner Meier). It's VIN E54S002771, carries Styling S.O. data plates #2536 and 10028 (both dated 1955), and Werner has a 3"-thick ring binder full of the original GM Styling paperwork and photos documenting the modifications.
Styling did LOTS of things to modify production cars after they left St. Louis - cars so modified were assigned S.O. (Shop Order) numbers and S.O. data plates. The Corvette plant was NOT a hot-rod or custom shop - they built production cars to Engineering specifications and customer orders submitted by dealers, and the reality is that the plant had nothing whatsoever to do with whatever was done to those cars after they left St. Louis.
I believe that the car was originally white. Others may remember for sure. At one time I had a complete list of everything that was not 55 but it has been so long ago that I cannot find it. I will continue to look. Somebody could bring it back with enough money or enjoy it as it is.
Many thousands $$ away from being a real '55 just under the hood. Hubcaps look nice too.
It does have the original 855 distributor, very rare 799 wiper motor, coil ignition shielding. If you look at items such as the exhaust manifold you will see it is in fantastic shape. Little to no signs of pitting, which even in the restored cars at Bloomington you could see pitting.
I believe that the car was originally white. Others may remember for sure. At one time I had a complete list of everything that was not 55 but it has been so long ago that I cannot find it. I will continue to look. Somebody could bring it back with enough money or enjoy it as it is.
Jay
Unless you bought it almost for free, you could have John's (Scopeli) '55 for not much more money, once you stopped spending on the silver car. John's is already a Top Flight car that is turn key, why bother?
06-23-2018, 04:18 PM
Have you seen the silver '55 on eBay?
