Kind of. More like “field find”. A fellow Classic Nation member Bob tipped us off to this rough-but-intact 1963 Corvette Stingray Split Window that is sitting and apparently abandoned (just from the looks of it). There is no indication if this diamond in the rough is for sale or if the owner has plans for it (just like these barn finds).
Don’t you wish you could stumble onto something like this and trailer it home? Thanks for pointing this one out Bob. Feel free to let us know more details about it over at our classic car blog.
UPDATE:
We were able to dig up some more details about this really cool Vette. It’s a 63′ fuelie with 360 HP, 11:25:1 compression, matching numbers car! Its also high tach, rock crusher, 4:56 differential. It’s all intact!
Wow. This is exactly the kind of treasure that every car guy dreams about finding.
Oh yeah; did I mention that this car has been sitting in this exact same spot untouched? since 1975?
UPDATE #2
Last week, Nick and I confirmed the Vette was no longer sitting in the spot that it always had been. Someone posted on the old blog that they thought they had seen it on a trailer heading out of town. I thought we would never hear about this beauty any longer.
Then I got an email in my inbox.
“Someone had to save it. It’s safely indoors and will be restored. I’ll try to keep you up to date as it progresses”
Jim, wherever you are, we salute you. And we are all dying to know – how were you able to make this happen? And, what are your plans for it? I would love to see some more pictures of this project with so much potential!
61 Comments
Jim Kinkland
I feel your pain. The County condemned our home and the cops confiscated my 60 Ford pickup and 66 Falcon Futura. Now I gotta save a Mustang and an Ambassador wagon I`ve got stashed out in the sticks.
Evan
What year Mustang?
Evan
Does anyone have an update on this Vette? I’d love to know!
Bill C
I sold this car in 1972 for $1300.00 I put the third tail light in
Evan
Do you have any information on who the new owner is, when it apparently sold in 2013-2014?
David
I also took pictures of this about 12 or 15 years ago and they published it in Car Craft. It was right off Ray as you start up the hill on 9th or 10th. You turn in a block and a road naturally turns into dirt and heads a little bit South and it sat right there. I would love to know what happened to this thing because it was such a curiosity. I knocked at this guy’s house and the only thing in there was a giant pitbull and he didn’t look very friendly. No one answered. I heard the Spokane Corvettes Club I knew all about this car for years and could never get a handle on it. I’m glad somebody found it, I even daydreamed about going over there when I knew no one was there and using a sling and lift it out of there onto a flatbed in about 10 minutes and hit the road with a tarp over it. Glad I didn’t, would have been totaled GTA sentence
Robert Benson
I presume it was/a 427cid @360bhp because of the factory side pipes.
63′ Split window. What a find/score…