PureRossi has unveiled the first details on the Rossi SixtySix – a Corvette C6 that borrows its design DNA from the classic Sting Ray model. The SixtySix will be built in limited numbers and will be unveiled at the 22nd Annual EyesOn Design this Sunday at the Walter P. Chrysler Museum in Auburn Hills.

As we were saying, the Rossi SixtySix will take its design inspiration from the Sting Ray models: there will be a split window, stinger hood, a modern front, and retro “bumpers”. For the interior, updates will be made to the center console area, door accents, and shift boots.

The sports car will be offered in eight exterior colors: black, red, maroon, blue, pearl white, a charcoal gray, and yellow.

Under the hood the Rossi SixtySix will have a V8 engine producing 450 HP and 400 lbs-ft of torque Unfortunately, performance figures haven’t been released yet so little is known about how [...]

Illustrated Corvette Series No. 93 – 1992

Falconer V-12 Experimental Corvette “The Conan Corvette”

When the Dodge Viper debuted at the North American International Auto Show in January 1989, NO ONE knew what hit them. The Viper was new and fresh, yet it had a definite connection to the Shelby Cobra. Advanced orders were flooding in you know that designers were going back to the office saying, “DAMN!” The Corvette team was working on three fronts: improving the production Corvette, getting the LT-5 (ZR-1) ready for production, and honing the CERV III prototype as a possible C5 Corvette. But the economy wasn’t good and the reality of a CERV III-based car seemed dim at best Meanwhile, Chrysler was going into production with the V10-powered Viper. This posed a serious threat to the Corvette’s “America’s Only True Sports Car” status. Under the guise of a “chassis development” program, the Corvette team came up with the idea [...]

Buoyed by a wildly enthusiastic introduction as a concept car at GM’s New York 1953 Motorama debut in January, company executives put production of the Corvette on a fast track to capitalize on the favorable public and media opinion. After months of frantic activity, production on the 1953 Corvette got underway, with the initial target set at just 50 cars a month — a maximum of 300 units for the balance of the calendar year.

Each 1953 Corvette required considerable
hand labor on the makeshift Flint,
Michigan, assembly line, which was
housed in the same factory that turned out
Chevy passenger cars. Due to variances
in the supplied fiberglass components,
body fit-and-finish were inconsistent,
especially during the first
model year.

Actually, much of the 1953 model-year’s run of 300 cars would be hand-built, as more-efficient production processes for assembling the vehicle’s fiberglass body were still being perfected. [...]

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