This is the most expensive corvette ever sold that has reached 7.1 million euros

In the month of March a new record has been established in the sale of a corvette by the auction house RM Sotheby’s. The model in question, The SS Project XP-64 of 1957it has become the … more expensive of all time after selling, in an event held in Miami, by 7.7 million dollars (about 7.1 million euros to the current change). The estimated sales price was between 5 and 7 million, so it has ended up exceeding expectations. With these figures completely broke the previous brand that maintained for more than a decade the 1967 Corvette C2 with L88 engine that Barrett-Jackson sold for 3.85 million dollars, but what makes it so special?

This model was The first racing car of General Motors Specifically built for this purpose, work of the engineer and experienced pilot Zora Arkus-Duntov, who contributed a different perspective to Chevrolet and the Corvette team focused on innovation and performance. This specimen, manufactured totally handmade, participated in a single race, The 12 hours of Sebring of 1957 With the famous pilots John Fitch and Piero Taruffibut could not finish it due to mechanical problems.

Arkus and his team completely reinvented the first generation corvette equiping it with a light tubular chassis, A 4.6 -liter V8 engine with Ramjet fuel injection associated with a four -speed manual gearbox and An aerodynamic body of magnesium. In addition, this would be one of the first to carry the acronym SS (Super Sport) that translate into a body longer than the standard version. Its total weight is 840 kilos in a vacuum, which becomes about 450 kilos less than what a corvette of the time weighed.

The specimen that has been sold is finished in a combination of metallic and white blue tones and presents a competition badge with the number 1 in the hood and the fender. Thanks to its characteristics and aesthetics, it is considered one of the most beautiful racing cars of all time, hence it appeared in numerous publications of the time as Sports Cars Illustrated.

Ten years after competing its creator donated it to the Indianapolis Autodrome Museum where it has remained until today. During all that time it has been exposed in different historical events throughout the United States.

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