The somewhat different Chevrolet Corvette
03/01/2012
At the end of the fifties, the builders of so-called special bodies were in danger of running out of chassis, because hardly any manufacturer was still building vehicles in which the chassis was "self-supporting" without a body, apart from Volkswagen perhaps. For this reason, designers loved the Chevrolet Corvette, because it offered an ideal basis for building alternative concepts. Even great Italian designers and coachbuilders of the time - Pininfarina, Vignale, Scaglietti - built vehicles based on the Corvette.
Pininfarina, for example, built the "Rondine", a hyper-elegant concept car (first picture), on behalf of GM in 1963, Vignale showed a unique and spectacular-looking sports car built for a certain Mr. Kelly at the Paris Motor Show in 1961 (second picture) and Scaglietti created the "Rondine" at the end of the 1950s, Scaglietti was commissioned by several GM managers, including Caroll Shelby, to create several versions of a sports car with an aluminum
body, which was intended to anticipate the AC Cobra and, not entirely coincidentally, bore striking similarities to the Ferrari sports cars of the time (picture at the bottom).
We have already reported on the Scaglietti Corvette, and we have already stored the pictures of the Vignale and Pininfarina Corvette in the archive, at least in high resolution. We will also be telling you more about these at a later date.
