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Why Peter Brock’s Re-Imagined 63 Split Window Is So Important? | Corvette History CORVETTE TODAY#258
May 9, 2025
In today’s video, we delve into the key aspects of the Corvette history and explore why Peter Brock’s re-imagined 63 Split Window is so important?
This video covers why Peter Brock’s re-imagined 63 Split Window is so important and discusses the following topics:
- What is unique about the new 1963 Corvette?
- Why is Peter Brock’s 1963 Corvette special?
- What is new in the 1963 Split-Window Corvette?
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The 1963 Split Window Corvette was the car that first introduced me to the Corvette as a young man.
The man who sketched the C2 Corvette, Peter Brock, is a living legend in the Corvette community. Recently, Peter introduced at SEMA 2024 a reimagined '63 Split Window Corvette! Peter comes back to CORVETTE TODAY to give us all the details about his "new" '63 Split Window Corvette (he was originally on CORVETTE TODAY #30 in November of 2020).
Please note - this is NOT a restomod Corvette! Peter has modernized this iconic Corvette but it retains the same body of the 1963 Split Window Corvette.
The first re-imagined '63 Split Window was auctioned off at Barrett Jackson/Scottsdale. And a total of 20 units will be produced and sold. Find out how you can purchase one by listening and watching this episode of CORVETTE TODAY!
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Our video explores why Peter Brock’s re-imagined 63 Split Window is so important, what is unique about the new 1963 Corvette, why is Peter Brock’s 1963 Corvette special, and what is new in the 1963 Split-Window Corvette?
Regarding why Peter Brock’s re-imagined 63 Split Window is so important, have I addressed your curiosity?
Please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below. We're keen to hear your perspectives on the following: what is unique about the new 1963 Corvette, why is Peter Brock’s 1963 Corvette special, what is new in the 1963 Split-Window Corvette, and why Peter Brock’s re-imagined 63 Split Window is so important?
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Community he first appeared on Corvette today number 30 that was back in November of 2020 and he has an exciting
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new project that here to talk about it is my honor to welcome back Peter Brock to the show he's going to be talking
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about his new split window Corvette Peter it's great to have you back on Corvette today my friend well see it's
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always fun to talk about Corvettes I mean right from my first job at GM which was my goal when I was going to Art
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Center to go to work for GM because of the work that was being done at the Corvette always been one of my favorite
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cars and the car up is become a classic absolutely well first off and that
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leaves me right into my first question for you Peter you are the only surviving member left on that team that designed
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the original C2 Corvette tell me the story again about the C2 and how it came
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about because I remember GM was ready to kill the Corvette at the end of the first generation weren't they absolutely
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Harley Earl really saw the future of an American sports car and got involved in
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uh leading the design team that built the C1 Corvette which was introduced in New York in 53 but they never really
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made any money on it and of course Ford had come out with a 55 T Bird and they were killing him in sales and I think
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top management just thought that it was a losing proposition Harley Earl was retiring from General Motors 1957 when I
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was just coming into worked there I was 19 when I was hired and I was just 20 years old when I started working on the
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project for him they had pretty much decided the whole image of performance that General Motors was going to go away
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there's been a group of big American Automotive manufacturers came up with a thing they called the AMA ban and it was
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primarily just to get rid of the performance image it was costing them all too much money primarily because of
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what they were spending in NASCAR and drag racing and also for the liability because a lot of their Engineers were
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actually testing the cars on Woodward Boulevard and I think the top management saw that and just said you know we've
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just got to get out of this whole thing and killed off performance so essentially the Corvette became kind of
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a non issue there it wasn't exactly banned but it wasn't encouraged and as you know one continued on to
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1962 but when Mitchell went over to Trin in the summer of 57 to the Trin show he
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saw a bunch of small beautiful streamliners all built with the 1600cc Fiat engines and this was kind of a big
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thing going on in Europe at that time to set ultimate spe records M laay track and H bones and stuff like that and he
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loved the overall shape of these little streamliners it was kind of a either nice Cris belt line or a modified top
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and bottom kind of a beautiful sort of a aerodynamic shape and then a little aerodynamic shape over each wheel and
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you can see that that was the coming theme that the Italians liked and also had just seen the Disco Volante Coupe
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that Alpha Romeo had come back with and he had wanted to make a Corvette coupe from the beginning and saw that that was
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a theme that was going to go so when he came back to the United States he was really enthusiastic about reigniting the
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whole Corvette program but there was nowhere he could go he couldn't go up to Chevrolet studio and talk about it
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because it was a program that nobody wanted to have any part with management said no more Corvettes so the only
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option he had was to come downstairs to the advanced concept Studios where there
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was three or four of us in there working we're all sort of new hires at General Motors he walked in and just started
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talking to us to find out what kind of people people we were what kind of design guys we were and he happened to
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mention Zora had taken the SS Corvette down to seing that year and of course I had learned about that car and had
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driven down to Sebring myself to see it run because the car was never mentioned at General Motors when it was being done
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it was such a secret project so we went down there so when he learned that I'd driven down there just to see that
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project and see it go he knew that he had some guys that were really interested in what he wanted to do and
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he slowly began to reveal his idea I don't even know if he was totally into it at that point or not because he
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didn't know if he had the team but when he realized that there were three young good designers in the advanced concepts
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who call Research b and we were led by a design head guy named Bob Riser started
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revealing what he wanted to do with the new Corvette that's really how the program started that's really cool now
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this car that you've got is called the studio concept 1963 Corvette and we've got to be clear this is not a Resto mod
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Corvette touch on that and talk about the team who's building these cars with you the interesting thing was that when
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you work at GM of course you do the production cars and the idea was if I
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was in the studio doing the Corvette upstairs at that time we would often do what we call Concept covers and build
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them out for top Executives in the company you know if buy nson wanted something special to drive or Mitchell
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wanted something special to drive we build these oneoff cars well that was the whole idea of calling this
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particular rework of the 63 a studio concept it's just exactly what had I've
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been leading that project what I would have done had I been doing a special version for one of our top exec that car
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is this trick underneath as it is on the outside because we put a new art morison chassis underneath it put the latest LS3
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engine automatic push button transmission all the latest stuff on the street for the day but with all the
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original lines of the 60 three and it was important to me from having designed
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the the XP 87 which was a concept car that became the 63 Corvette to make sure
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that we kept those lines as authentic as possible I didn't want to make it a hot
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rod version of what somebody else thought it should be I wanted to keep the exact lines the way we did them at
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General Motors in doing so I wanted to concentrate on the form and sort of
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downplay a lot of the flashy stuff that was on the outside some of the trim and extra stuff that was in there so the
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main thing was to make the car as smooth as possible and stay with the form for example all the bumpers which were
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Chrome a black chrome so the form would stand out but it would still be the 63
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that's awesome now you plan on building 20 of these reimagined 63 split windows
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and I know that the first one was just auctioned off at Barrett Jackson recently wasn't it you know that's the
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first one it's a great success down there we've got already four more people that have come in and want to do them so
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everyone will be completely different because they get to choose their own colors and Interiors working with us but
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there'll be no two cars exactly the same allthough the lines and all the specialty equipment we put into this
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first Barrett Jackson sale model will be on the car fantastic now you debuted this car at SEMA that had to be exciting
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tell me a little bit more about the debut there at SEMA and how the reception was to the car well SEMA is a
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great show because it's a one place everybody that's in the performance industry brings new cars to show and
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it's primarily the top builders in the country working with suppliers of
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special equipment speed equipment so you know whether it's a camshaft manufacturer somebody making special
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cylinder heads or special blocks or whatever they'll have one of these trick cars brought in that they work with and
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that was the whole idea with this car is to build it and to introduce it at SEMA and it was a great success there because
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there are so many people there that really appreciated what we did with the car because there are a lot of people
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that are just hardcore Corvette guys and especially people that like split windows because it was only built in
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that one year 1963 so that's a real icon car but there was a lot on that car that
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never got done exactly the way I did it when it was in the studio so it was a chance to go back and refine some of
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those things without changing the lines for example I increased the area of the rear windows which is one of the things
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that Zora dunov complained about when Bill Mitchell wanted to make a split window version of the car so I opened
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the windows back up to the way that I originally had it and those had been cut back when the car was done for
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production all kinds of special things like special headlights underneath halo headlights made all of them the Scoops
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functional because their designs were in there but they were phony and they were in primarily for sales interest which
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Mitchell believed in I always hated it because it wasn't real so it a chance to make those things really efficient and
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it turned out beautifully so when you look at the car you can see that there's some real depth to the sculpture in the
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in the body form but it still retains the original lines and I tell you what we're going to talk more about the exact
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nuts and bolts coming up next Peter let's take a break when we come back we'll get into the specifics of your
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4231 I'm your host Steve Garrett with me is the legendary Peter Brock we are talking about his new reimagine 63 split
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window Peter in the second segment let's talk more about the specifics you know right away I noticed that the center
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spine of this car is much more pronounced tell me more about that it's a matter of refinement of design some of
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the things that are more difficult to do in in a full-on production car that you can't get as Crisp And as sharp as you
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like it was a way to make the spine on that car which is absolutely Bill
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Mitchell's idea from the beginning to split the windows I designed the car the full wear window and it and Mitchell
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came in and wanted to split it because he had a great appreciation of the Bugattis 57 SC atlantique which had a
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split window and of course that car was done out of magnesium which was very difficult to weld so one of the ways
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that they put the panels together was with a vertical section that they riveted together which created a spine
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down the center of the fenders and of the roof line so that was a way to go back to that design for Bill Mitchell's
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bline and he had not done very very strongly on the on our production car
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again because the engineers come in to do stuff stuff gets flattened out a little bit right so it was back and put
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the sline in there and it really sets that rear window and I think it works very well on it I do too I love it and
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that atlantique is a gorgeous car as well and like you mentioned earlier the split windows are larger too that was by
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Design though wasn't it absolutely when I had originally designed the car I had much larger windows in it and of course
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course Zora liked what I was doing very much and then when bill came in and had
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the guy scoop the window zorao went up through the roof he didn't want to do it at all but that was Mitchell's car he
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was the guy that was paying for it was his project so we split the windows on it now when the car was gone into
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production again there was a compromise whoever was doing the final engineering on it for a matter of either cost or
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whatever was done the split windows became smaller so it was a chance here
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on this one to go back to do the windows the way I wanted them originally with a lot more area coming down on the sides
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and coming down the rear it's done so well that a lot of it fun to come up and look at the car with guys who are
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hardcore Split Window Guys and they look at the car and they God that thing looks really good see it until you point it
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out and then you put it side by side with a regular one and the windows on the regular one look tiny yeah they
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really do and I like it there's no Chrome around your new reimagined split window looks very very modern but it
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still hearkens back to that original split window back from ' 63 now you alluded to this a little bit in the
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first segment but talk to me more about the headlights because they don't flip up like the original C2 headlights these
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are more halo headlights underneath the nose of the car yes that's one of the
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big advantages As you move ahead the technology improves and that's especially so in headlight materials so
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was a chance to put these headlights underneath and get away from the TR some flip up lights which are also not very
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aerodynamic they block a lot of the air flow over the hood so by being able to smooth off the entire top front end of
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the car it looks a lot cleaner but it's also far far efficient with the headlights underneath that's awesome it
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looks really really cool and I know that the thing about the C2 all the vents on the C2 originally were nonfunctional but
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this Corvette has functional vents on the hood B pillar and also the side quarter panels exactly yeah again these
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were surface details that Mitchell designed into the car asked us to put in
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and we drew them in as he wanted but it's very very difficult because if you look at doing the inside finish of those
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things like especially on the side quarter panels those are very expensive things to do so in a matter of trying to
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keep the cost down the engineering turns out to just sort of indicate where they are in plastic they don't have the depth
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and the sculpturing that that was intended you know it begins to look like plastic playground toys or something
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like that right when you put them in and make them real and you can see that they're working it gives the car so much
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more credibility yes definitely and like we said you do have flush mounted glass
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plus you also have one piece side windows too yep we dropped the b-pillar on there again to go back with the
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original sketch that I did on the car to give it sort of that original look when it was sketched out so it makes the car
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simpler and I think a lot prettier I think so too well let's take our final break Peter when we come back we'll talk
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docomo Steve Garrett with me is the legendary Peter Brock the man that sketched and designed the C2 Corvette
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and the famous split window we're talking about his reimagine split window Corvette that's coming out soon Peter
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talk to me about the engine that you've chosen for your reimagine 63 split window well I've always admired Ed
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Cole's V8 from the time it was a small what we call small block but it's been the number one Performance Engine for
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anybody that wants to build a really neat Hot Rod or upgraded production car that particular LF engine that we have
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now has been such a wonderfully developed engine over the years from the time that the V8 was originally in
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introduced in 1955 so you can imagine how much better that engine is now and
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I've used LS engines and everything I've got one in my own Daytona Cobra Coupe which of course they want to see a Ford
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engine and a Daytona Coupe but I run an LS engine in my Daytona so it was a
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perfect engine to put in this split window we just took a crate motor on LSD but really scooped it up a little bit
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with the her fuel injection on it and nice heads and everything but really underneath it's just a standard LS3
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engine and for the street there just isn't a better combination definitely horsepower and what you can use and you
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get to cruise along the road you're running down the freeway at the 70 and you're only turning you know 2200 RPM
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how good is that that's awesome yeah those LS3 is were great engines talk to me also about the chassis I know the
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chassis is special you got a good transmission and special breaks on there too yeah absolutely we select that to go
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from the C7 you know all of the forge alloy arms and spindles and brakes and
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everything so basically everything underneath is modern Corvette on a modern chassis that's awesome we did the
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same thing with brakes all C7 and then interior electric shift transmission and stuff that's nice yeah and I was going
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to say talk to me about the details on the interior because I know you have a push button shifter you've got a flat
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bton spark IND IND steering wheel and a rearview mirror that is a camera Alla the C8 isn't it absolutely all the
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latest stuff on that and of course the interior is just beautifully done all of that is all done in leather you know all
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up on the instrument panel everything in leather upgrade like you can't believe it really is a beautiful beautiful car I
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also love the wheels talk to me about the wheels because they remind me of the original C2 Wheels the knockoffs well
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that was the whole point with it is to get back and look very much the traditional Chevy Corvette wheels so
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these are Forge Line Wheels and I wanted to keep them size down to 18s okay
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because the Resto mod goes way way too big on the wheels and the proportions are just wrong for that era car the 18s
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are about as big I feel as you can go on that car and still look correct but having all the details with all the nice
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little fins on them are very much like the details that came out in the Mitchell era at General Motors I mean
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they just put so much beautiful detail into the cars at that time and these wheels reflect that Arrow yeah I love
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the wheels and I love your point about that because all the Resto mods seem to go with larger wheels and they aren't
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era specific but these are and they look fantastic absolutely you have to stay
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with the era because you begin to get away from that when the car begins to get distorted and it just doesn't have
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the classic look that it was originally intended and you finish off the look with traditional Corvette side pipes too
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that's awesome oh absolutely oh that was the way to do it but you'll notice that again the trim is done in the dark and
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eyes on there so it doesn't take away from the overall form of the body but it's still there so everything is there
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to look original but we're concentrating on the form and not the trim exactly now
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I know you said that every buyer will have their choice of interior and exterior colors if someone wants to look
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at purchasing one of these new reimagined Corvettes how can they do that where can they get a hold of you
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and how can they look at purchasing one they can get a hold of light sesi or Corvette Mike of course you can Z the
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sales guys in the front of this but you could project Mike stesy is down in Florida at rest mod be the guy to talk
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to on it that sounds great Peter thank you so much for being back on Corvette today it's great to talk to you again
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all right I'd like your guys with your black chrome wheels and stuff to send me a little information about that
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particular set of of wheels that they're doing because I maybe like to try using that on the next model that sounds good
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I'll connect you with the guys from wheelcraft okay all right excellent thanks again for listening and watching
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