Chevrolet Corvette Convertible, 1963
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Chassis No.: 30867S117145
Auction: Fran and Ron Green's Verde Classics Museum Collection 2013
Auction date: February 23, 2013
Lot No.: S44
$76,450 | Sold
- Body: Convertible
- Ferrari Red paint
- Auxiliary hardtop
- Tan Italian glove-soft leather interior
- 327/340 HP engine
- 4-speed manual
- Tan soft top
- Chrome cowl vents
- Chrome simulated air vents on hood
- Part of Ron’s collection for over 20 years
- Restoration commmissioned by Mr. Green in 2005
- 4-barrel carburetor
- 3-bar knock-off style wheels
- First year for the Sting Ray
This fine-looking 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray convertible has been in Ron Green’s personal collection for over 20 years and remains a personal favorite. Like its Corvette stable mates in the Verde Classics Collection, this first-year Sting Ray was restored in 2005 to better than showroom condition with the addition of special paint and interior finishing. In place of the factory finish, the car is now cloaked in brilliant Ferrari Rosso Corso Red and the cowl vents and imitation hood vent grilles are finished in chrome, all to great effect.
The interior has an Italian flavor as well in the glove-soft Tan leather upholstery done in the correct pleated pattern, with a choice of either a matching Tan soft top or an auxiliary hard top. The underhood area is all classic Corvette in the form of a free-revving 327 CI 4-barrel small block cranking 340 HP through a Hurst-shifted 4-speed, and there is no better way to complete the look than a set of finned aluminum three-bar knock-off wheels.
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