Classic Concepts: 1959 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray
The tale of the Stingray began with the Corvette SS, a project intended to replace the SR-2, GMs factory racer. Two SS Corvettes were built primarily to compete in the Le Mans 24 Hours but soon afterwards fell victim to a voluntary ban on manufacturer-sponsored racing proposed by the Automobile Manufacturers Association. The pair of 1957 racers (one a test mule for evaluating braking systems) was thereafter relegated to test track duties, and subsequently put into storage. But Bill Mitchell then-Vice President for Design at GM chose not to let the ban hamper his own love for motorsport, and in 1959 decided to stump up the princely sum of one dollar to bring the test mule SS out of a premature retirement.
So, Mitchell had a chassis for his race car which usefully included a sophisticated De Dion rear suspension set-up but being a designer, wanted his personally funded creation to flaunt some of his teams aesthetic creativity. He had previously set up an in-house competition between GMs different design studios to create a next-generation Corvette for 1960, which was won by GMs youngest designer at the time, Peter Brock. The project was developed as the XP-86 (the XP standing for Experimental Pursuit, a military term used during jet fighter development), but was eventually terminated due the combination of a recession and a change of chairman.
Mitchell married the SS chassis and the XP-86s aesthetics with help from other members of the design team, which included a young Larry Shinoda (who went on to design the Boss 302 Mustang after migrating to Ford). The after-hours project which was christened XP-87 took place in the Hammer Room: a secret work area hidden behind a tool room. It was completed and ready to take to the track later in 1959, with a fuel-injected 4.6-litre V8 producing 311bhp nestled beneath the sculpted bonnet.
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