Sugar Scoop Roof Corvette

A sugar scoop design replaced the originally proposed fastback design creating a vertical rear window with buttresses sloping from the roof to the rear on either side.

Sugar scoop roof corvette.

After the corvette xp 882 mid engine prototype chassis improvements were approved the 882 would morph into the xp 895 delorean authorized the design team headed by bill mitchell to create a new. It was intended from the beginning that the rear window and that portion of the roof above the seats to be removable. The concept car s name was later changed to manta ray. Also the stingray was no longer on the cars fenders and steel reinforcement was added to the hood.

And if you have a bubble window vette someone will find a way to make that 1968 through 1973 rear bumper fit. The last year of the tunnel back or sometimes called the sugar scoop because of the way the roof lines came down and the flat rear window. If your car has the sugar scoop rear window you can get away with that look fairly easy. After the corvette xp 882 mid engine prototype chassis improvements were approved the 882 would morph into the xp 895 delorean authorized the design team headed by bill mitchell to create a new.

1968 c3 chevrolet corvette. Bill mitchell was the chief stylist on the c3 corvette and he designed the c3 patterned after the mako shark ii concept. Corvette convertibles could be had with a removable hardtop while corvette t top coupes had removable roof panels and rear window. Corvette corvettec8 c8 widebody chevy chevrolet z06 stancenation stance.

Expect more of the corvette c8 this week. The c3 also adopted the sugar scoop roof treatment with vertical back window from the mid engined concept models designed by the duntov group. First iteration is a simple widebody with a roof scoop. Image gallery pictures.

The c3 also adopted the sugar scoop roof treatment with vertical back window from the mid engined concept models designed by the duntov group. The concept car s name was later changed to manta ray. It was intended from the beginning that the rear window and that portion of the roof above the seats to be removable. The c3 also adopted the sugar scoop roof treatment with vertical back window from the mid engined concept models designed by the duntov group.

The styling of the reynolds corvette delivered a fresh take on the 68 corvette tunnel back sugar scoop roof and a more contemporary look overall.