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[desmo]

I found this image on the web of a Chevrolet prototype without any further info. Any help? I doesn't look familiar except for a resemblance to early Chapparals.

[Keir]

It looks like one of the CERV cars.
Chevrolet Experimental Research Vehicle.
They also did an open wheel version, all designed by Duntov, who was responsible for the Corvette.

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[Ray Bell]

The pipes look a bit CERV, but it's all too long ago... very low slung, love those see-through inlet trumpets... yes, they did do an open-wheeler, looked a bit like a bulbous F5000 would have done in that era (c 1962/3)

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[Don Capps]

I thought the vehicle looked familiar: it is a sports-racer that Paul VanValkenburgh and other R&D engineers at Chevrolet built about 1963 (give or take a year or so) in a parallel program with the Corvette GS series (check the wheels closely). It is from a great book called Chevrolet Racing that covered the period from 1957 thru 1970, a period that Chevy was "officially" in racing for only a very short period -- 1963!

Paul VanValkenburgh is a piece of work and one of my favorite wrenches in the cogs sort of guys. The book is great -- I am seriously considering replacing my copy (long gone and missed) since it is now apparently available once again.

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[karlcars]

This little beauty is on the cover of my new book, 'Corvette -- the Exotic Experimental Cars', just published by Iconografix as one of the first two books in what we boldly call the Ludvigsen Library Series. It is the Chevrolet GS-2b and several more photos of it appear in the book. It was built in 1964 by Chevy and provided the chassis for the 1965 Chaparral.