1957 Corvette Prototype
Had the original Corvette been face lifted as first planned, it might have given way in 1957 to this model patterned on the
1955 LaSalle roadster, another Motorama special. One exception was the big, pointy front bumper bullets, which seem to
have been borrowed from Buick’s 1954 Wildcat II show car. The sweeping elliptical bodyside “coves” did appear on the
production 1956 Corvette, the one element retained from this interim proposal.
1956 Corvette SR2
Cole initially planned to develop the Corvette along separate racing and touring lines as did Jaguar with the XK series on
the one hand and the "C" and "D" types on the other. Implementing this objective, racing options were introduced in
1956,then the Corvette SR2
