[VIDEO] Dave Kindig Shares the Build Details on the Amazing Corvette ‘Twelve-Air’ Ridler Award Winner

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[VIDEO] Dave Kindig Shares the Build Details on the Amazing Corvette 'Twelve-Air' Ridler Award Winner


Ranas Radar offers up an in-depth look at the amazing all-aluminum unibody 1953 Chevrolet Corvette “Twelve-Air” created by Kindig-It Designs of Millcreek, Utah.

The car – inspired by the 1954 Corvair concept car shown at the Motorama – captured the prestigious Grand Ridler Award at this year’s 2024 Detroit Autorama, and Rana thought she was going to get the full inside story on this masterpiece that took the guys 4½ years to complete.

But near the end of the video Dave Kindig pulls a rabbit out of his hat and says to get the “rest of the story,” as Paul Harvey might say, you’ll have to tune in later this year to watch an eight-part mini-series devoted to the car.

[VIDEO] Dave Kindig Shares the Build Details on the Amazing Corvette 'Twelve-Air' Ridler Award Winner


But in her less-than-10-minute post on YouTube, Rana still manages to get a lot of information about the car, which doesn’t have a store-bought piece that’s visible and was totally built by hand, according to Dave and his right-hand man Kevin.

It’s the first time Dave & Crew have competed for the Ridler as Kindig explains they were “just waiting for the right opportunity,” and a customer named Dave Maxwell gave them carte blanche to create this prize-winning car around five years ago.

[VIDEO] Dave Kindig Shares the Build Details on the Amazing Corvette 'Twelve-Air' Ridler Award Winner


Kindig’s vision was to create a classic fastback first-generation Corvette inspired by the ’54 Corvair, and they did it in fine fashion, building a one-piece unibody completely out of aluminum. The Infrared-colored car with Sagebrushed accents also includes a one-off custom suspension designed by the guys, not to mention a simply stunning 650-horsepower V12 LS3 engine molded together with bellhousing and transaxle as one piece with the front and rear suspension combined with a single lateral coilover to create its own sway bar.

There’s so much to unwind about this one-off Corvette that it’s definitely worth the promised eight-part mini-series that we can’t wait to see it. Wouldn’t it be something to watch this car some day rolling down the Strip in Las Vegas, with that proposed new baseball stadium for the A’s in the background?


Source:
Ranas Radar

Related:
[GALLERY] 1953 Corvette ‘TwelveAir’ Wins the Prestigious Ridler Award at Detroit Autorama
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  2. Outstanding!!! Looking forward to watching Dave’s mini-series about this car.

  3. I’ve seen almost every Ridler Award winner up close over the last 60 years,other than my years in the Marine Corps and believe this vehicle creation tops them all. I’ve watched a lot of the cars Dave and his crew at his shop have built and again this one tops them all. Could be the 4 1/2 year build but the design,materials,engineering,and fabrication have never been matched in the custom car industry. Just wow.

  5. The 59 is a great car,but no where near the hand built,hand crafted,53 concept car that won. All 8 were great builds.Granted the build time and cost for the two probably make the difference. You can pretty much bet they wont either one get driven as much as my stock C8.

  6. This car deserves to be stored in some dark wealthy owner’s remote location buried far away, from the sun and the general public?

    Rodents, dirt/dust and accelerated depreciation will all have a new place to call home?

    Seriously, “exercise in futility”, over price project makes me throw up a little in my mouth.

    Many thanks,
    Ray

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