Experimental Corvette -- SS

[375GTB]

"Stabilizer Bar"

Early use of an ARB, only just adapted by Vanwall F-1 cars

[375GTB]

A technological tour de force

The ducted radiator was not seen again until the mid '60s

Too bad there was no time to debug the machine in that 5 months gestation.

23 laps. 115 miles at Sebring and she was DONE..

Le Mans went away..

[SEMAChannel]

Nice vid, thanks for sharing. Please keep 'em coming.

[hookuspookus529]

so where is this car today ?

[mrpitv]

@hookuspookus529 I think GM still has it.

[NormJJames]

It needed a top to qualify so they asked our (Research) studio to clay up a blister. We did that but producibility said they couldn't make it in one piece; so I worked up the cross-over trim piece to hide the split. The plaster shop took casts and sent them to make the blisters. When they arrived I saw it in the crate, upside down . It took an instant to recognize they made it in one piece after all. It took another instant to see two holes cut through the blister to hold my trim crosspiece!

[mrpitv]

@NormJJames Thank you for your comment and sharing the history of this car. Do we see you in the video? best, Michael

[NormJJames]

@mrpitv: Michael, No I'm not in the video. There was so much secrecy between studios that we never really knew what was going on elsewhere. That's why this video was better than most. I did recognize several studio heads and high level Styling people including my boss, Bob McLean. Larry Shinoda was there also, but it was too hard to follow who was responsible for what. Norm

[lubbockboy1]

Duntov looks like Dr. Strangelove.

[urah2525]

Way too bad Chevrolet never built this car in volume.

[hendersonjerry]

1957 Corvette super sport

"Chevrolet presents ...", thanks for uploading video.

[kidofponymaker]

Thanks Michael for sharing this! I love these! Holly Clark

[2007Colonial]

What a tragedy, can you imagine where engineers like Duntov, Ed cole, Pete Brock and designed Bill Mitchell could have taken GM without that politically correct racing ban? GM would have been a forward looking technology leader, not a producer of the boring clunkers they produced from the early seventies on, I hope they have learned their lesson?

[sardosfish]

owned but engineer,people and costruction are italian.....not changment. owner pay only you want to say that the Lamborghini is German?please not realistic...

[mrpitv]

I agree that "Europe" is an artifical construct much like the idea of any region. It's a handy way to refer to a geographical region that also shares a common history. But it also has some political legitimacy beyond its semantic usefulness. There is a European Union and a common currency, the Euro, which replaced the Lira in Italy. In any event, you are right that Maserati and Lamborghini were developed in Italy. Although, Lamborghini is now owned by a German company, Volkswagen.

[sardosfish]

no no,europe is a fake..not same linguage,religions and the country are not friends....i know geograpy american don't warry but maserati and lamborghini are italian not european.You must be precise

[Hals]

I guess the biggest difference is that italians are way more nationalistic then most other european people...

Great piece of film by the way, i liked it

[mrpitv]

sorry if two of my comments seem to appear as news from nowhere but the comments I'm responding to must have been removed by the posters. Odd.

[mrpitv]

A fine hair to split but yes they are Italian and Italy is a part of Europe so one can say these cars are both European and Italian as well as from planet earth.

[sardosfish]

ferrari and maserati are not European cars.are ITALIAN

[JGMagoo]

Last time I checked, Italy was part of Europe. Learn your geography!

[smook]

Excellent film. Worth the time to watch.

[wer2xu]

thank god the Engineers kept the union guys out...otherwise they would still be trying to build it today.

[mrpitv]

huh? I'm sure the people who built the car were skilled trades UAW members at the GM Tech Center. These are the people who build the concept cars, the special editions and do what's called the "Pilot" build on the cars which is where they build a few hundred vehicles as the engineers and the workers try to figure out the build sequence and discover any issues before the cars are mass assembled at the plants. These are really elite members of the GM team.

[Rainj]

Who's the dude in the bathrobe at 3:27? lol

[marsmenacegizmo]

GM must have tons of old media that is hard to locate. This was great and they should release  more.

[mrpitv]

I agree --- the archives a loaded with great old films that tell us a lot about history and are fun to watch.