First Corvette ever built reportedly found, to be restored — via drivingdotca Vintage Collectible ClassicCars Corvette
VIN 001, internally designated car 3950, was for the longest time thought to have been destroyed after an intensive bit of such scrutiny, but Petersen also found it was driven by a handful of top GM execs before “Chevrolet let a whole battalion of GM engineers pick it apart to look for various deficiencies that had made it through the rushed development and production process.”
When Petersen combed through the work orders and the 22 changes to 3950 that the engineers suggested, he compared them to the bizarre tweaks he’d seen on another car in the shop of restorer Lloyd Miller, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, about 20 years ago; sure enough, they lined up, and so he booked another viewing of the car and gave its East Coast-based owner a call to let him know the Corvette was not, as the owner’d half-suspected, VIN 002, but in fact the first Corvette built.
The expert says his plans are for a full restoration, possibly the last he’ll ever undertake, to bring 3950 to its condition following the 22 engineering changes. Petersen’s research also suggests the three pre-production prototype Corvettes built by Chevrolet were largely turned into show cars, and then disassembled or crushed. In any case, they’ve yet to resurface, which would make VIN 001 the oldest surviving Corvette, too—one we can’t wait to see brought back to its former glory.
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