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1956 Chevrolet Corvette C1

Sale price: £42,000.00 make an offer

Car location: Weybridge, United Kingdom

Sale type: Fixed price listing

Technical specifications, photos and description:

Year:
1956
Mileage:
18,245
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1956 Chevrolet Corvette C1 for sale

Current customer rating: current rating for this car(2.25) based on 213 votes
For sale by auction on Saturday 30 August 2014 with Historics at Brooklands. Brooklands Motor Racing Circuit. Weybridge. Surrey. Call 01753 639170
General Motors hired designer Harley Earl in 1927. Earl loved
sports cars. and GIs returning after serving in Europe during World
War II were bringing home MGs. Jaguars. Alfa Romeos and the like.
Even the small independent automaker. Nash Motors. began selling a
two-seat sports car in 1951. Earl convinced GM that they also
needed to build a two-seat sports car. Earl and his Special
Projects crew began working on the new car later that year which
was code named 'Opel'. The result was the 1953 Corvette. unveiled
to the public at that year's Motorama car show. Taking its name
from the corvette. a small. manoeuvrable fighting frigate. the
first Corvettes were virtually handbuilt in Flint. Michigan in
Chevrolet's Customer Delivery Centre. The outer body was made out
of a revolutionary new composite material called fibreglass. br/>selected in part because of limiting steel quotas left over from
the Korean War. Underneath that radical new body were standard
Chevrolet components. including the 'Blue Flame' inline
six-cylinder truck engine. two-speed Powerglide automatic
transmission and drum brakes from Chevrolet's regular car
line. The addition of a V8 engine mated to a three speed
manual transmission was probably the single most important in the
car's history. helped turn the Corvette from a two-seat curiosity
into a genuine performer.

This 1956 Chevrolet Corvette was imported to the UK in 2013 by
the vendor who purchased the car in California from Mr. Anthony
(Bud) Carney. he had owned the car for thirty years purchasing it
from Mr. Bruce Hahn in 1983 who had spent from 1978 to 1980
restoring it. Finished in the classic Corvette colours of red with
a white insert. matching red hardtop and red interior. this car is
in excellent condition throughout. the only change the current
owner has done is to replace the crossply tyres with period looking
radial tyres which has improved the handling tenfold. It is
supplied with a V5C registration document. a copy of the last
American title certificate and a file full of invoices relating to
parts purchased. particularly between 1978 and 1980. A 1950's
American icon with a V8 motor making sound as good as it looks.



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