I also love how this was to be GM's "moonshot" vehicle: their most advanced vehicle to date, destined to save the corporation, still built with a piece of paper hanging off the front (aka "the build sheet").

K

----So apparently GM built 50 million vehicles between 1955 and 1968. No wonder GM was such a predominate brand!....Bill S

At one time [50s] GM had over 50% of the domestic market. Chevrolet represented about 1/3 of the total. Today GM in total is about 15%. Was 28% 19 years ago.

Some color ones. The Caribe show car. 1965 Evening Orchid on a modified '66 4 door Caprice. I'd love to build a copy. I have heard it was destroyed.

https://i.ibb.co/JCHT49M/Caribe-Top-Color-1.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/nsP86fb/Caribe-Side-Color.jpg


I wish they wouldn't come out so small...

----Wonder if the they actually made a retracting top for it? I would expect not, but you never know.....Bill S

That is unbelievably cool!!

Mizar flying Pinto
 

The inventor designed to be able to drive to airport, easily attach wings, fly to another airport detach wing and not have to rent a car . Unfortunately on September 11 , 1973 when test pilot was not available the 2 inventors crashed and did tot survive .

----Several years ago Jan and I went to a car-boat-airplane show at Ocean Reef in the Florida Keys. The only one of these left flying dropped in from somewhere in northern Florida. The owner landed with his 12 year old son. Later his wife showed up in a car with thier other son. She refused to take the ride down in the plane,,,LOL! So, the owner actually participated in both the car show part as well as the plane show part.....Bill S

----I can see by the sign on nthe windshield that this is Dave Walters 67 L88 Corvette. Dave flys under the radar most of the time but is an old friend from Coral Gables Fl. At 1st I wondered about the painted heads, but if Dave painted them red that's the way 67 L88's came.....Bill S

Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn Mi.

K

Interesting they green-lighted it in '64. It probably would've been an Impala. I was always under the impression that it was based on a Caprice since it physically looks like a Caprice 4-door. For an Impala they would've had to fill in all the body side molding holes. They also added the Caprice tail lights and rear moldings.

I believe Dave drove this car from Florida to Bloomington Gold Earthquake '88 back in 1988. I was there to see it.

----Yup, Tim. Dave drove the entire way. As I recall he was worried about quality gas so he had a friend drive a really nice Chevy big-block pickup that had about a 200 gallon extra tank mounted in the bed full of 110. Dave is a believer in driving his rides!....Bill S

Twin to my High School car back in 1974, only mine had a Hemi and Black interior. I always thought this color looked a lot like my 1968 Rally Green RS Z-28 I bought from Dana Mecum's Spring Classic back in 1993 when he held it at Mecum headquarters in Belvidere Illinois. BOY has he come a LONG way! Congratulations to him, great Guy.

Bill

It might be the same Bill. Plymouth introduced their "Performance Colors" in 1969:

https://images2.imgbox.com/68/f1/YYPKuBgI_o.jpg

https://images2.imgbox.com/7e/b1/1GXFK8wz_o.jpg