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“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. See all 38 photos EX-129 was one of the one-piece,… Source link

A styling prototype of the original Chevrolet Corvette is seeing the light of day for the first time since disappearing in the 1950s. In a YouTube video, Jerry Heasley takes us through the history and restoration of S.O. 2151, a prototype C1 Corvette that was used to present different design features to executives at GM. The prototype is actually two cars, and started life as EX-129, a yellow car that traveled the Motorama tour with other Corvette prototypes such as the Nomad… Source link