While I was reading Motor Trend's speculative article on the upcoming C7, they also showed a bunch of old pics of other concepts from the past, and this caught my eye:
You got your convertible in the foreground, and then the coupe, and what appears to be a Mustang like extende coupe or something, and then.... is that a &*$%ing station wagon?!
Luckily, those were only the concepts. But just imagine if a station wagon had become apart of Corvette tradition, and we were all driving around modern C6's like that.
At least one modern replica has been built. I think they grafted on a '53-'55 front end and taillights. The '55 Nomad body may have been sectioned, possibly shortened a bit.
Hey, I've always wanted to shorten a first-series Corvair convertible and build a custom fiberglass nosepiece to duplicate the Monza SS concept car.
I hope to have a replica of the Fastback at Carlisle this year. The roof panels will be done in the coming months. The top and trunk panels are loaded into CAD and ready for the five axis machine. Working on the fabrication of the windshield frame at the moment.
If I had any money or talent, I'd build or buy a fake Nomad or Corvair. I like the Corvair better.
I was at an auction over a year ago and saw a 56-7 Nomad build. It was 56-7 Corvette from the dash forward and Nomadish from there back. It was pretty cool. Artic Blue.
You have to remember these were show cars - idea cars put before the public to judge reaction. If the reaction was favorable, and the idea that a profit could be made, then they were built on a production platform.
In the case of most concept cars, the "concept" made it and not necessarily the looks.
Concepts often look strange or very different, so that they can test styling ideas and see which work and which do not. They also let them display the concept without giving away the next year's style, which back then was a big deal.
In the case of the '53 Motorama Corvette, there was no production car to build the concept in so they ended up building the production car almost like the concept car.
With the concept '54 Nomad, it was built on a production car chassis, not a Corvette chassis. It was never intended to be a Corvette station wagon, as it had a rear seat and was production car size, not sports car size. So when it went into production, the concept was incorporated into a production sized vehicle.
A bud of mine from Saltsburg, Pa. took a wrecked '57 Vette and a wrecked Nomad & made a Corvette Nomad. My wife and I used it as the dash plaque/t-shirt car for a charity event we ram-rodded in 2001 He sold it at 2005 Barrett-Jackson for $100K
Ever seen pics of the C3 wagons all the hippies used to build in the '70 and '80's? Very wild...
(Where is the weed smoking emoticon when i need it???)
Come on, now, they were cool.
With Chevy reducing luggage space in what, '70, the coupes were almost worthless to travel in. The '78 rear window made them practical again, after many wagons had been built.
What could've been: A Corvette station wagon?!
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by this time it would look like the porsche truck or similar dumb bass vehicle.
He sold it at 2005 Barrett-Jackson for $100K
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