An industry-wide racing ban in the late ... RM Sotheby’s auctioned off the ’57 Corvette SS at its Miami sale, held February 27 and 28 this year. The car came out of the collection of ...

Only two examples of the Corvette SS were ever produced: one test mule and one racer slated for the Sebring event. This particular car is the racing machine, which was helmed by John Fitch and ...

The one-of-a-kind roadster was the first purpose-built General Motors race car. In becoming the most expensive Corvette, the SS Project XP-64 broke a record that had stood for more than a decade.

I hadn’t had my ’57 Corvette long before it ... In those days, it was just a used sports car, not yet a coveted collectible. I started by painting white racing stripes nose-to-tail.