Topic: Solved - NEH 779: Chevrolet Corvair Monza SS Roadster Concept - 1963

[Carnut]

Who knows what this is?
1 point for whoever gets its name and date of build right:

[Carnut]

Experts?

[fyreline]

Chevrolet's Corvair-based Monza SS, the roadster version of the similar Monza GT. It appeared around 1963 and was widely shown through 1964.  Originally it had a MUCH better looking low-cut wraparound windscreen, the more upright windshield shown was fitted at a later date.  The car still exists in the GM Heritage Collection.

[Carnut]

That's the car, yes!
One for the "if only" department!
Well done.

[Otto Puzzell]

Chevrolet's Corvair-based Monza SS, the roadster version of the similar Monza GT. It appeared around 1963 and was widely shown through 1964.  Originally it had a MUCH better looking low-cut wraparound windscreen, the more upright windshield shown was fitted at a later date.  The car still exists in the GM Heritage Collection.

Actually, there were two different red cars. The car in the Heritage collection is (was) an operational, rear-engine automobile. It did get modified over the years, with different Mako Shark Manta Ray-like headlights and a targa bar. But the high-windshield car was a push-mobile. Neither is technically a roadster version of the Monza GT, which had its engine mounted amid-ship

[Aaron65]

Here are both of the Heritage Center cars at Meadowbrook in 2008...

[Otto Puzzell]

Notice the wheelbase difference in the mid-engine GT and the rear-engine SS.

And here's the push-mobile in the studio, with the GT clay in the background