Beschreibung:

Chevrolet’s introduction of the option of fuel-injection for the 1957 season was inspired for it provided the now bored out 283 cubic inch V8 with a matched number of horses under the hood. It was first tested as a solution to gas ‘sloshing’ of carburetor aspirated cars turning into bends under race conditions at Sebring in 1956, and then rolled out as an option for the next production season. Retrospectively it is amazing to think that Chevrolet were able to offer this contemporaneously with Mercedes-Benz’s 300SL while on other high end machinery it would be more than a decade before this would be the commonplace. And all at once, the term ‘fuelie’ was born. The seller acquired the Corvette at the 1997 Greenwich Concours d’Elegance Auction. At the time it was offered for sale having been recently bought from its owner of more than 30 years, and an avid California based Corvette collector, Mr. Pillsbury. In that ownership the car had undergone a comprehensive body-off restoration, during which it was ascertained that the car had a fully correctly numbered drive train, including its rare late ‘57 series four speed manual transmission. Over the last few years, the car’s fastidious owner treated the car to further restoration aimed at bringing it to be near flawless in its condition, the final part of this work was completed over the winter months and the car arrives at the auction fresh from this. Beautifully represented in period factory scheme of Venetian Red paint and interior, the car is set off well with white-wall tires and is well-detailed throughout. It comes complete with a car cover.