You are bidding on this amazingly accurate Exoto replica of the 1964 Grand Sport Chevrolet Corvette ... Sebring racer #3 with drivers Delmo Johnson and David Morgan... Designed in Grand 1:18 scale ...

This Grand Sport is an award winning miniature replica in grand 1:18 scale ... No less than 250 precision parts are required to hand assemble this gem ... Superb features include a highly detailed V8 small block, fully wired and plumbed -- Authentic design suspensions on independent diecast tubular chassis -- Beautifully detailed interior with real carpeting -- Highly detailed instrument cluster -- Genuine fabric seat-belts -- Lovingly designed Halibrand Mags -- New! photo-etch windshield wipers, side grills, aluminum rear fender extensions, exclusive Firestone tires, exclusive roof antenna, exclusive rear window glass with vent openings, and much, much more ... This is master modeling at its best ... Ready to display ... This replica is NEW IN THE BOX and FACTORY FRESH.  Exoto item #RLG18025.

The original Grand Sports were the secret weapon of Corvette godfather Zora Arkus-Duntov: this was a car with brute horsepower. The Grand Sport could lift its front wheels off the ground in all 4 gears! Unfortunately, the GM boardroom put a stop to this project; but they could not stop the 5 Grand Sports already built. And neither could the competition!

Sebring 1964 was the first real test for the privately campaigned Corvette Grand Sports. Chevrolet was no longer around to supply parts and provide assistance. Factory support had never been official, but their absence was instantly felt.
 
Delmo Johnson purchased the #14 car from Grady Davis, after Don Yenko drove it at Augusta. Preparation began immediately for Sebring. Externally the newly renumbered #3 Grand Sport appeared to be as well prepared as any other car in the field. Wearing the #3, the Mecom car was the only Grand Sport to feature ducts to aid with brake cooling in the top of the Plexiglass rear window. Other distinctive features added to the Coupes for the Sebring cars included leather straps on the engine lid and fender extensions so that the wider rear tires wouldn't extend beyond the bodywork. Also unique to the #3 car at Sebring is the whip antenna used for radio communications and the fact that #3 ran with clear headlight lenses, where every other time a Grand Sport raced it carried fiberglass lens covers! Delmo Johnson qualified the Coupe twelfth, immediately behind the Gurneys Cobra. He got off to a poor start but immediately started a climb back up through the field. Right from the early laps, something wasn't quite right -- the Coupe would wander all over the track, "but it got you from corner to corner" according to Johnson. Mechanical woes led to a number of pit stops and the pairing of Johnson/Morgan finally finished thirty-second overall. Johnson reported about the Grand Sport: "Brute horsepower. It was like a dragster -- the only car I ever drove that would lift the front wheels off the ground in all four gears." 

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