How many Metal skinned Corvettes were built?

[Geoff C.]

Gentlepersons & Football Fans

I’m not referring to the home spun ones, but rather the ones associated with GM’s own concepts and show cars. I know of one and wonder if there are two, or did I forget my Corvette show car genealogy (which I probably did. Keeping up with actual re-bodied factory built Corvettes is almost as hard as the BJ 435’s).

Around 1973 there was the Reynolds Aluminum Company Corvette, which is show in the link below. Now, if the Two Rotor Corvette was also metal skinned that would be two – unless the Reynolds Aluminum Corvette was reborn as the Two Rotor or visa versa.

Geoffrey Coenen

PS These photos are watermarked or branded.

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Metal Corvette

[Rob M.]

Re: How many Metal skinned Corvettes were built?

Geoffrey,

I'm by no means an expert, but do the 3 Scaglietti's count from '59 or '60?

Rob
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[Wayne W.]

Re: How many Metal skinned Corvettes were built?

Looks like the guy on the Grassy Knoll.

[Geoff C.]

Hmmmmmmmmmm I forgot those

Do you know if they were made for GM or did some rich folk have them done.
I Never CRS #2???

[mike cobine]

Re: How many Metal skinned Corvettes were built?

Were there only three Scaglietti's built?

1957 Corvette SS.

XP-895 (alum version of XP-882)

Two rotor Corvette (the red one that looked like the '78 Monza)

Four rotor Corvette (?)

The five extremely rare '52s (just kidding)

[Jim Tipton]

Re: How many Metal skinned Corvettes were built?

In regard to the four rotar cars, what would be the value on two original General Motors Research Laboratories serial number plates for the Rotary engines that were never used or stamped with serial numbers? My father was on the research team for the original rotary engines that GM was researching and I just happen to have two of those plates still.