’63 Corvette Z06 Stingray is the Holy Grail of Muscle Cars

Posted on 07-08-2014 at 20:55 by sir_smokalot – 22 Comments”

So, you can all probably guess that the future owner of this ter-Muscle Car lot in the wallet to draw for his exclusive toy.

Anyone who is a bit into cars interested to know that ” Z06 ” is a placeholder for a additional intense version of the already not very common Corvette, which is now in its seventh generation is doing, and also in Z06 trim appears. Since 2000, Chevrolet offers the standard on Corvettes. However, long, long before that, there was also a Z06, the Corvette C2, which in 1962 saw the light of day.

The Z06 package, which debuted on the ’63 models, of which there are a total of 199 divided into six batches were made. Part of the package were a ” a 20 percent larger diameter front antiroll bar, a vacuum brake booster, a dual master cylinder, sintered-metallic brake linings within power-assisted Al-Fin drums cooled by front air scoops and vented backing plates, larger diameter shocks and springs nearly twice as stiff as standard‘, according to the Corvette Museum.

The cars had a monstrous tank capacity of 138 litres, and were therefore applicable as “Big Tanks”. This specific beautiful black copy is one of them, and his history is well documented.

Under the hood, it’s all on the 5,4 litre V8 (327 cu. in. small-block, big blocks of 6.5 litres and larger did in ’65 their appearance) with 365 hp. Its first owner, the American Paul Reinhart, raced with it and with the season of 1964, and sold his black beauty then. In 1982 he bought him back again, after which the instance is thoroughly restored. If you the whole backstory will want to read, that is here, at Meechum Mecum Auctions, that the Z06 next week in Monterey auction.

Now I have a huge soft spot for classic, straight-on (straight-) Muscle Cars, so probably is the opinion of the undersigned is not the most objective, but if I am here anyway once my knuistjes can… With an estimated yield of 1.5 to 1.7 million USD is that chance, however, not very large.

Finally, for the elderly among us, a nice addition: in the gaming classic Street Rod (1989, so fokking retro) drove The King into a ’63 Corvette. Just sayin’…

Gallery: Chevrolet Corvette Z06 1963 Paul Reinhart

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