1964 Corvette Rally Car to be Auctioned at Bonham’s Goodwood Sale

Jun 4, 2015

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1964 Corvette Rally Car to be Auctioned at Bonham's Goodwood Sale

A 1964 Corvette rally car is expected to fetch roughly $60,000 when it’s auctioned off by Bonhams at the upcoming Goodwood Festival of Speed.

The red car, freshly restored, has an impressive racing history, having been rallied by Duncan Robb-Cummings in the Monte Carlo Challenge from 1998 to 2001 and in the 1999 Rallye Des Lavandes and the 2000 and 2001 Rallye de Paris. Back then, the car was highlighted in Classic & Sports Car magazine and Classic Car Weekly. The new owner will get an impressive history folder containing photographs, MoTs, ferry passes, entries and correspondence concerning all the events it participated in.

With 82,999 miles showing on the odometer, the Corvette had been stored until last year but has been carefully restored since then and is now ready for action again.

The current owner says he has spent £12,000 refreshing the car over the past 12 months. Rare & Performance Motors in Rushmoor, Surrey, builders of Lord March’s Corvette Stingray race car, has done most of the restoration.

Among the updates are:

Two new FIA specification 4-point Sabet seat belts
Front and rear brakes rebuilt
New hand brake cables
Gear selector rebuilt
Headlight motors replaced
New wiring loom
New expansion tank
New Kenlowe fan
Radiator rebuilt
Extensive work on the chassis, cleaning, treating, and re-undersealing
Installation of new hood
New steering column, fuel tank, and header tank
Reconditioning of carburetor and fuel pump
New paint and carpet.

Most impressively, though, the car’s 5.6-liter V8 engine produces about 349 horsepower “and sounds epic and really flies, making E-Types and 911s look pedestrian,” according to Bonhams. “The car has gained pride of place on the start line at Goodwood on the last six occasions it was invited,” Bonhams says, “and in the right hands is a likely front runner in any rally event in Europe. Tuned, fully serviced and freshly MoT’d, it comes with the aforementioned history file, previous FIVA Certificate and V5C registration document.”