In early 1963, five unique and very fast C2 Chevrolet Corvettes were built. The fact that each of those five still exists today is probably a very good indication of how special they are — they even survived the ’60s and ’70s, when all manner of crimes against enthusiasts were committed as rare cars of the era were crashed, crushed, and abandoned with little regard to their future holy grail status.
Known internally as ‘Project Lightweight’ and externally as the 1963 Corvette Grand Sport, these five wild machines — two built as roadsters and the other three as hardtops — would become the ultimate and most desirable Corvettes ever built.
To discover how this unicorn of the American sports car world edged its way into existence we need to start at the very beginning, with a legendary personality who would become forever linked to the Corvette. The story begins
