vetteman64

Just read this on Facebook, fascinating!

ChrisBlair

That's a pretty cool find

jim lockwood

Hmmm, not seeing anything here, Joseph.

tuxnharley

Is that real?

67:72

Huh... "Grand Sports Corvette"... kinda clunky with that trailing -s.

What does it mean on engine costs "if tooled"?

Dan Hampton

I am not sure I understand the statement that deals with the program cancellation if a "satisfactory" return cannot be attained. No mention of what constitutes a "satisfactory" return. A pretty ambiguous statement for a project of this magnitude.

John BX NY

That means set up on production type (volume) tooling not hand made or one off in prototype setup.

SEVNT6

I thought the Grand Sport program was cancelled in early '63...

DansYellow66

I’m pretty sure they never produced 125 of them so if authentic, possibly a program that was floated but shot down in the end?

ChrisBlair

The letter is a lay-out of a proposal for 125 examples and permission to proceed with production of them. If 125 were never produced, we may confidently deduce that the answer from Chevy's General manager, Knudsen, was "no".

jim lockwood

I'm keenly interested in seeing this but it's not showing up on my screen. Can one of you repost the image of this price sheet?

Dan Hampton

Not so much the program but the continued band on racing activities.
To wit: In February 1963, "following increased AMA, government, insurance company, and safety organization pressure, an internal letter from the GM top management to all GM brands clearly stated that any further support of race teams would not be tolerated, and all race sponsorships came to a grinding halt".

Interestingly, I believe Henry Ford II was head of the AMA at that time. Ford had no trouble shipping engines and transmissions to Shelby for his Cobras. That was a perfect storm for Ford. He could keep an arm's length distance from corporate participation but ride on Shelby's coattails with the racing success of the Cobra. Simultaneously, Ford was working with Eric Broadley in England on the Ford GT at the same time. Talk about having it both ways.

leif.anderson93

Jim,
Can you see this??

jim lockwood

Nothing appears, Leif, until I hit "reply" and then a small icon appears. Nothing more, though. Nothing happens when I click on the icon. Strange!

Here is how my reply screen looks:

*89x2*

Yes. It's on the internet, therefore, it is.

ChrisBlair

either of these? It's not really a "price sheet" though. It's a an inter-office letter:

leif.anderson93

Jim,
I sent you a PM, as well.

jim lockwood

Problem solved!!!! Thanks to Doug Camick, I now can see the price sheet.

That's an amazing piece of history.

jim lockwood

Thanks to you, also, Chris.

ChrisBlair

I posted the GIF as well to see if it was format dependent but no matter.

All I did was re-name the image. Odd. Computers are weird sometimes.