If you’re hunting for a museum grade 1963 Corvette split window, keep scrolling. But if you want a head turning, pavement shredding, Frankenstein cool restomod with a backstory as wild as its stance, this Daytona Beach offering on eBay Classifieds might be the most interesting $37,799 you’ll find online.
Listed by a seller known as kingofcars, this blue split window coupe isn’t pretending to be original. In fact, it leans into its identity as a full tilt custom—equal parts 1963 Corvette body and C4/C5 Corvette bones with even a dash of C8.
And somehow, it works.
Underneath the iconic 1963 fiberglass shell sits a 1996 Corvette chassis, complete with a built LT1 V8 and an automatic transmission. The seller says the car “will get sideways easily,” and after driving it more than 100 miles in a single day, he reports that it “ran really good, shifts like new and stops on a dime.”
Recent mechanical work includes a tune up, new gas tank, fuel pump, and fuel lines, and C5 Corvette wheels. Now, the car runs, drives, idles smoothly, and—according to the seller—has plenty of power to keep things interesting.
This Corvette’s history is as unconventional as its build. The seller says the car was stolen in the 1970s and later recovered in the 1990s, at which point Kentucky issued a custom VIN plate. The body was eventually mounted on the ’96 chassis, and the car is currently titled as a 1963 Corvette.
It later surfaced at an insurance auto auction, where the current seller picked it up.
Purists, brace yourselves.
This car has undergone extensive custom bodywork, including shaved doors with power poppers, flush mounted split window, shaved headlights, now relocated to the grille, shaved hood vents and includes power windows and the original 1963 dash blended with 1996 Corvette components.
The seller admits many of these modifications aren’t what he would have done – “it is what it is” – but he’s also quick to add that the car is “very cool to drive” and absolutely not for anyone who wants to blend in.
“If you don’t like attention, this isn’t your car,” he says.
Like any project grade restomod, this one comes with a punch list, including a radio and speakers, rubber door seal kit (currently lots of road noise), A/C line replacement and recharge, passenger side window motor, tires (good tread, but old).
The seller is upfront: this is a project, not a pristine showpiece “so don’t expect perfection.” But it’s also a running, driving, stopping, sideways happy split window for under $40K—something you don’t see every day.
For the right buyer—someone who values personality over pedigree—this split window restomod wearing what appears to be C8 Rapid Blue paint might be the most fun you can have in a Corvette without spending six figures.
Source:
eBay Motors via AutoEvolution.com
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This is about the only way I’d be interested in a ’63. Much better looking than the original. Only thing that would make it better is a 2014 LT1 instead of a 1996 LT1.
Send it to the Crusher , I said what I said
A real nice, big piece of crap. Wouldn’t take it if he paid me.
Your right Zora, what a POS.
Is it a genuine 1963 body, or a knockoff?
No Thanks,
C2 corvests are just about my favorite, however This thing is an ugly POS. Poorly restored poorly executed and poorly planned.
There is bound to be some fool who will take it. I understand the build. Nothing I would have done nor would want but I understand it.
If you are crass enough to need to stand out in the crowd due to being an AH, then jump in, the water’s fine.
I wonder what store had that many cans of the same color spray paint?
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