eBay Find of the Day: 1968 Chevrolet Corvette SCCA racer recreation

August 31, 2009

Filed under: Motorsports, Classics, Performance, Auctions, Chevrolet

1968 SCCA Chevrolet Corvette tribute - Click above for high-res image gallery

Next up on the auction block is each Corvette-loving Walter Mitty’s fantasy come true, a 1968 SCCA Corvette hardtop convertible race automobile. Okay, maybe that’s not everyone’s idea of the perfect Corvette, but for those of you old enough to remember the glory days of SCCA Trans-Am racing circa 1968, this automobile should hit all the right buttons. What started life as a perfectly adequate, four-speed 327/350 optioned ‘Vette, has been transformed into the one-of-a-kind race automobile tribute you see in our gallery. It’s a street car that looks an awful lot like the Trans-Am racers of the late ’60s and early ’70s.

The good folks at 2nd Generation Automotive Restorations are the ones who turned it into what you see here this day, minus this car’s current fire-breathing factory race engine, a genuine Bowtie ZL-1. That’s right, the current owner found one of the factory’s limited edition Ram Jet ZL-1 engines (number 155 of only 200 made) nestled in a ‘55 Chevy show vehicle. The engine had just 36 miles on it and needed a superior home. We’d say the result is pretty spectacularly awesome. This very car was featured in the August 2007 issue of Hemmings Muscle Machines and can be yours for a Buy-It-Now price of just $60,000 - it would probably cost nearly twice that much to duplicate it this day. If this sounds like the right vehicle for you, you’d superior act fast. Bidding ends this day at 7 PM PDT.

Gallery: ebay: 1968 Corvette Tribute car