A Naked Corvette? – Driveable Chassis ’67 Big-Block Corvette
67 Big Block Corvette Chassis
Let’s Play, “Corvette Oddball!”
Quirky Vette Factoids
by K. Scott Teeters
Question:
Do you really need a body for your Corvette?
Answer: Not really, but it’s nice to have one.
A Naked Corvette…
This car has been seen at many Corvette shows. over the last few years. It’s just too quirky to not share. The car is a fully functional ’67 big-block Corvette… with no body – just the fully running chassis. It must be a BLAST to drive!
The Driveable Chassis ’67 big-block Corvette is the work of Corvette Repair in Valley Stream, New York. Owner Kevin Mackay and his crew specialize in body-off Corvette restorations and have done restoration work on Chip Miller’s 1960 Le Mans and Purple People Eater racer, the first L-88 ’66 Sting Ray (the Roger Penske Chevrolet car), the ’69 Rebel #57 L-88 racer, and many others.
Kevin has built four driveable chassis/cut-away cars. The drivable chassis 67 big-block (shown above) ‘was built in ’90 and is the first of first of Kevin’s unique Corvette collection.
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The crowd response from car shows was so overwhelming that in ’92 Kevin built his suspended body 66 big-block Coupe. This is a beautiful demonstration piece that shows the inner working of a body-off restoration.
On somewhat of a roll, Kevin then built the cut-away Sunray DX Racer. No, he didn’t actually cut up the original Sunray DX car, the body is a donor, but the engine is a for-real L-88 and everything else is race track ready.
Ten years went by before Kevin unveiled his latest creation, the fully-functional and New York street legal, see-thru ’69 L-88 Corvette. Everything works on this car and it passes inspection. I would have LOVED being at the inspection station the day Kevin took the see-through L-88 for inspection!
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All of the Corvette Repair, Inc. cars are beautifully detailed and have won many awards. I consider these cars as educational, functional display pieces of automotive history.
Kevin Mackay's 67 Big Block Chassis Corvette
Only a few people have actually experienced the sound of fury from behind the steering wheel of a big-block Corvette with side-mounted exhaust and no body to buffer the noise. WOW!
You might have to think about that for a while.
Take notice that the driveable ’67 Chassis car has no passenger seat. That’s so that no one dies from fright!
You can see more of Kevin Mackay’s work at… http://corvetterepair.com/index.htm
Kevin, if you sold rides at the car shows, the lines would be HUGE!
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For Illustrated Corvette Series Artwork by K. Scott Teeters go to http://www.illustratedCorvetteSeries.com
Got a “Corvette Oddball” factoid that you’d like to share? Zip me off an e-mail at, lightoak@comcast.net and I’ll include it in the next post here at www.CorvetteReport.com.
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Save the Wave,
Scott
Of Interest:
Kevin Mackay talking his Corvette Restoration Game:
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L-89 Big Block Diecast
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And the L-71 Engine as illustrated by K. Scott Teeters:
L-71 427/435 Horsepower Big Block
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Your two cents:
Would you pay to drive this amazing no body Corvette?
