Allure of the Automobile Exhibition
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR.,
8/2011.
This Corvette Stingray was a privately funded concept car, secretly designed and built in "Studio X", a basement design center of the GM Design Bldg., by Bill Mitchell, newly installed GM Vice President.
This concept car formed a basis for the second (C2) generation Corvette Sting Ray. The basis of the Stingray was the 1957 Corvette SS, an engineering test mule chassis for the creation of an official Chevrolet race effort culminating with the 24 Hours of LeMans.
Soon after its race debut, the Automobile Manufacturers Association (AMA) banned manufacturer-sponsored racing, and the SS had been relegated to test track duty.
Allure of the Automobile Exhibition
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR.,
8/2011.
This Corvette Stingray was a privately funded concept car, secretly designed and built in "Studio X", a basement design center of the GM Design Bldg., by Bill Mitchell, newly installed GM Vice President.
This concept car formed a basis for the second (C2) generation Corvette Sting Ray. The basis of the Stingray was the 1957 Corvette SS, an engineering test mule chassis for the creation of an official Chevrolet race effort culminating with the 24 Hours of LeMans.
Soon after its race debut, the Automobile Manufacturers Association (AMA) banned manufacturer-sponsored racing, and the SS had been relegated to test track duty.