Superformance and GM unveil their 1963 Corvette Grand Sport

[Mark IV]

[quote=n1kon;1087393]No original had side exhaust like that.

There are also a few other notes that drastically differ from Grand Sports.

1. Turn signals are sticking out and are not recessed like original.
2. Gills are missing from the quarter panels.
3. Holes are missing from the rear.
4. They put chrome bezels on the tail lights which is not right.
5. They are missing the flat panels for the headlights.

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There ARE some differences but remember there are Supeformance STREET Grand Sports (built in South Africa) and RACE Grand Sports built at Duntov in Texas.

As there was never a "street" Grand Sport some allowances had to be made to allow useful street driving. The rear gills and vent holes between the tail lamps were deleted to allow a real, sealed trunk. The race versions have those features.

Understand that the chassis is as close as possible to the original GS, the special rear diff carrier has been replicated, the hubs, etc. of the GS has been duplicated. It would not be possible to take an original GS and drive it on the street with any sort of legality or usefulness!

[n1kon]

[quote=Mark IV;1087434]

Originally Posted by n1kon

No original had side exhaust like that.

There are also a few other notes that drastically differ from Grand Sports.

1. Turn signals are sticking out and are not recessed like original.
2. Gills are missing from the quarter panels.
3. Holes are missing from the rear.
4. They put chrome bezels on the tail lights which is not right.
5. They are missing the flat panels for the headlights.

QUOTE]

There ARE some differences but remember there are Supeformance STREET Grand Sports (built in South Africa) and RACE Grand Sports built at Duntov in Texas.

As there was never a "street" Grand Sport some allowances had to be made to allow useful street driving. The rear gills and vent holes between the tail lamps were deleted to allow a real, sealed trunk. The race versions have those features.

Understand that the chassis is as close as possible to the original GS, the special rear diff carrier has been replicated, the hubs, etc. of the GS has been duplicated. It would not be possible to take an original GS and drive it on the street with any sort of legality or usefulness!

I can say that if that is really their choice then it probably won't be popular at all to people in the GS market. People in that market want a GS and not what Superformance thinks the street version would look like.

Think about it like this. What if Superformance just got the license for the Cobra and only made the street version but their street version was their version of the street version that looks nothing like anything that ever actually existed. How popular would that be? A street version to me is something that looks exactly like them just has creature comforts.

It would be a deal breaker for me and probably for a lot of people in that market as well...especially for the price they are charging.

That being said, it is a prototype and I am pretty sure they will add/change the features I mentioned and the final production model will look right. I mean why in the world would they go through the trouble of getting the original molds and then change it?