Corvette

Al Gratz' 1955 Chevrolet Corvette

Bob McNulty's 1955 Chevrolet Corvette, of Castro Valley, California

Bill Schott's 1956 Chevrolet Corvette of Portland, Oregon. Bill was a member of The Kings of Portland car club, and his Corvette was mildly restyled by Von Hunter in 1960.

Les Mullen's 1956 Chevrolet Corvette of Miami, Florida. Known as "Dominique," Les spent 1,500 hours and 2,500 dollars restyling the car. The build was completed in 1962.

Mike Sparrow's 1956 Chevrolet Corvette

Ron Aguirre's 1956 Chevrolet Corvette - The X-Sonic

Custom by Paint! A mildly restyled Chevrolet Corvette that Ina Mae Overman photographed at the 1957 Norwalk Motorcade shoe. The car has been dressed up with a tasteful scallop paint job. Photo from The Ina Mae Overman Collection.

Bill Shelley's 1957 Chevrolet Corvette of Oakland, California. Named "Bali Hi," the car was restyled by Bill and Bob McNulty. The build was completed in 1960.

Bob Barrett's 1957 Chevrolet Corvette - The Bug was built by Star Kustom Shop of Wichita, Kansas.

Bob Caldwell's 1957 Chevrolet Corvette

Bob Moreira's 1957 Chevrolet Corvette

Bob Yoas' 1957 Chevrolet Corvette

Darol Jorgenson's 1957 Chevrolet Corvette

Jim Avery's 1957 Chevrolet Corvette of Waterbury, Connecticut, as it appeared in 1960.

Pinky Richard's 1957 Chevrolet Corvette

Ron Rodden's 1957 Chevrolet Corvette

Ronald Schmidt's 1957 Chevrolet Corvette

Von Hunter's 1957 Chevrolet Corvette of Portland, Oregon. This was Von's personal car. Built from a crashed car, the build was completed sometime around 1967.

Doug Osterman's 1958 Chevrolet Corvette of San Jose, California. Doug's mild Corvette was restyled in 1961.

Gary Ruddell's 1958 Chevrolet Corvette of Norwalk, California. Gary bought the Corvette in 1960. At the time he was the President of the Seagrams of Norwalk car club.

LaVonne Bathke's 1958 Chevrolet Corvette

Robert Guadagno's 1958 Chevrolet Corvette

Bill Merrill's 1959 Chevrolet Corvette of Thermopolis, Wyoming. Bill got the Corvette in 1959, while he was a junior in high school. He lived in La Jolla, California for a short while in the spring of 1959, and he had Dean Jeffris lay a panel paint job on the car. Unfortunately, the car was vandalized and the hood was damaged. Jeffries came down to La Jolla and picked up the car to fix the damage and painted the Corvette candy apple red with a gold underbase. The side panel was left gold with a clear coat covering it.

Leonard T Menard's 1959 Chevrolet Corvette of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, as it appeared in 1960.

Hank Bornstein's 1959 Chevrolet Corvette - The Pinapple Pearl

Pat Ward's 1961 Chevrolet Corvette, of Inglewood, California was painted by Junior Conway of Junior's House of Color.

Bob Nordskog's 1963 Chevrolet Corvette

Gary "The Local Brush" Kupfer's 1963 Chevrolet Corvette of Roosevelt, New York. For more than six decades, Larry Watson of Watson's House of Style has been recognized as the inventor of the Lace Paint Job, as he debuted Doug Carney's 1963 Pontiac Grand Prix at an indoor car show in April 1967. Five months before this great event, in November 1966, Gary "The Local Brush" Kupfer showed his panel and lace painted 1963 Chevrolet Corvette at the ISCA New York Coliseum Show. The lace paint job was applied late in 1965. Photo courtesy of Gary "The Local Brush" Kupfer.

Jack Walker's 1963 Chevrolet Corvette of Belton, Missouri. Jack's Corvette is also known as the Condor. Jack started to show the Condor in 1970, and it was the first custom car that he entered into the show circuit. After that, the car went trough several versions and changes.

Ray Farhner's 1963 Chevrolet Corvette, known as Outer Limits, was restyled by Ray Farhner of Farhner Custom Shop in Kansas City, Missouri in 1963.

Richard Mikami's 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray of Gardena, California. Richard installed hydraulic lifts on the car in 1966.

The Cosma Ray

Tom Kelly's 1969 Chevrolet Corvette of St. Louis, Missouri. Kelly's Corvette was restyled by Dave Puhl at House of Kustoms. Puhl had Harry Bradley design a few proposals that Kelly could choose from. The build was started in August of 1971 and completed in July of 1972.