Shipping

So having agreed to buy the base car for the project, the next task was to figure out how to get it from just outside Chicago to Saddleworth....

This process was not made any easier because the car came with over a dozen boxes of parts stripped off it, not to mention the motor and (a number of) gearboxes too!

After a few false starts, we managed to find a shipper willing to take on the job. The down side was that to move all the parts I had to rent a whole shipping container to fit it all in.

So by late August, it was all packed and off to the docks to wait for the next boat to the UK and Liverpool docks. (Insert here jokes about loss of wheels whilst in Liverpool....)

The Search

So, in mid 2010 with the idea in my mind to create the replica I set out to find a suitable donar car as a starting point.

After a couple of false starts, I came apon the car of Mary Cote.

http://marycs62vet.webstarts.com/

She was selling the car of her late husband (Bob) which had already been part restored. 

We exchanged emails and I felt a connection to her and her car as I had recently lost my Father (Norman) who had worked wiith me on the 1960 Vette

and so we decided that I would buy her car, ship it to the United Kingdom and build the car in memorium of both Bob and Norman.

GAME ON!!

Welcome to Scuderia Scirocco

One of the most obscure Corvettes at Le Mans must certainly be the 1962 Scuderia Scirocco USA/GB of Modena entry by Hugh M. Powell, a racing enthusiast from California. Drivers were Tony Settember (an American Formula 1 driver) and Jack Turner (a British racer and car builder).

Having built and raced a replica of the 1960 Briggs Cunningham Corvettes at the Goodwood Revival in 2005 and other races before selling it a few years ago, I have decided to now build (and I hope race) a replica of this obscure car.

Oh yes, and sorry to any VW enthusiasts who came to this site thinking it would be about their type of Scirocco!