The Supercar Registry - You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

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This is the 2nd prototype for the 69 Trans Am. Notice all the emblems that didn't make it into production: RAM AIR on the hood, FIREBIRD on the front fenders and 400 on the trunk, along with TRANS AM in red on the spoiler.

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Lee Stewart

10-22-2023 05:48 AM

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For Mexico

Lee Stewart

10-22-2023 05:50 AM

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Lee Stewart

10-22-2023 01:25 PM

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Look who's at the front of the pack!

The Day a Pontiac Tempest Bested a 427 Corvette … 1963!

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We’ve all heard the story of the little engine that could. Well, the little engine in our story isn’t so little and packs a great deal of muscle for something from the mid-’60s. How about a 421 SD Pontiac packing 500-plus hp and capable of motorvating a ’63 Tempest LeMans around Daytona quicker than the competition.

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Dave Rifkin

10-22-2023 01:33 PM

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opel gt/w genève concept 1975

I see a lot of similarities to the Corvette 2 rotor.

Lee Stewart

10-22-2023 01:58 PM

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I see a lot of similarities to the Corvette 2 rotor.

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Lee Stewart

10-22-2023 02:01 PM

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More like the 1976 Aerovette - which came a year after the Opel so it was probably the basis for this Corvette concept.

Keith Seymore

10-22-2023 02:25 PM

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Look who's at the front of the pack!

One of these things is not like the others.

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Lynn	10-22-2023 03:04 PM

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Considering it had a Chevy engine by 1965 (although the Studebaker hardliners insist it was not a Chevy, it was McKinnon engine!) it was pretty easy to use the existing K66 parts developed for the Corvette the year before.

Don't get me wrong; Studebaker had some great low cost innovations over the years; like a lock up torque converter in my 53. GM didn't use a lock up TQ until the 80s. But by 1965 the grave was already being dug for the Studebaker autos.

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10-22-2023 04:22 PM

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----Also appears to have a prototype (or aftermarket) steering wheel!.....Bill S

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