West Coast is awake but there will be no top down cruises out here for days! We are under a heat advisory through Tuesday....I will be indoors with the ac on hydrating :-) If the 1961 Corvette was good, the 1962 Corvette was even better. With still more power and even cleaner looks, it ranks as perhaps the most desirable Corvette between 1957 and 1963. The cars base price broke the $4,000 barrier for the first time, at $4,038. A heater was finally made standard for 1962, more than negating the price increase over the previous years model, but it could be deleted if so desired, which was intended for racing purposes. The 1962 Corvette marked the end of an era for Americas sports car, with the first completely new model in its history now a mere model year away. Still, the 1962 was a transitional model in that it introduced the venerable 327 V-8, which would be carried over to the new design. While the car harkened back to its roots as a 1953 introduction, thanks to Bill Mitchell, Zora Arkus-Duntov, and company, the 1962 was faster, handled better, looked handsomer, and was more civilized than any previous Corvette, but retained much of the charm of the original roadster concept. Sales on the year jumped by nearly 40 percent to 14,531 units, and the Corvette was firmly in the black as far as GMs bottom line was concerned.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:24:04 +0000
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