Monday, car show day! (1963 Corvette edition, pic heavy)

[Archae]

The first car, a '63 Corvette, is just plain awesome.

[Suich]

1. Used to have a '63 silver split-window

and a blue '69.

I loved those cars!

Never even got a ticket!

[NightWatcher]

2. Dude, is that a 69 Nova SS? I'll be there to take delivery in a minute

Pretty cool.

[shenmue]

3. Gorgeous!

Love the colors!

[jrandom421]

4. Still think this is a better use

of a 427 cubic inch aluminum block engine!

[hifiguy]

7. A car so fast that CAN/AM banned it.

So Jim Hall invented the Chaparral 2J. Everything Jim Hall built into his Chaparrals was decades ahead of its time. The 2J got banned, too.

The 2J - and yes those are vacuum fans on the back of the car.

[jrandom421]

9. The fans were powered by

a couple of snowmobile engines. They were powerful enough, that the car could go 40 mph with just the fans alone.

[hifiguy]

10. Hall was a brilliant guy.

The classic American iconoclast inventor. That Chevy gave him those factory built racing engines helped, too.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. I think my grandmother had that last car, only turquoise and white...

[Archae]

6. I think most of the US had that car back then.

Well, it's a Chevy...

[ballardgirl]

8. With Corvettes,

the older the better.