“This car was stripped, and I mean it was stripped in the 1950s,” Billy Jay Espich said. How does anybody do that to a real Corvette prototype?
Stamped “S.O. 2151,” on a plate under the hood, this was the “Proposal Car” for the 1955 Corvette. S.O. stands for “Shop Order,” and in early 1954, Harley Earl’s famous “Art & Colour Section” saw the pale yellow body of Motorama show car EX-129 mounted to a 1954 chassis with engine and running gear.
EX-129 was one of the one-piece,…
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