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The Chevrolet Corvette Kelly one-off by Vignale.
The Chevrolet Corvette Kelly: This one-off Vignale Corvette was built for the 1961 Salon de l’Automobile in Paris. It was based on a 1959 or 1960 Corvette chassis, commissioned by Gordon Kelly (USA). Kelly was a Wisconsin-based designer who had the wish to design his own sports car and so in the early ’60s had traveled to Europe to make his dream come true. He selected Vignale to rebody the car. The car received a final paint job in 2004 under the now-deceased Kelly.
The story of Carrozzeria Vignale represents one of the many somewhat forgotten success stories born against the backdrop of an Italy that was torn apart by the Second World War and which, starting from the end of the 1950s, was able to recover enough to know a real miracle. economical just a few years later.
