This 1965 Corvette was modified by General Motors to show how many of the car’s advanced features worked. It disappeared for years
and then was listed for sale at an auction where Tarpon Springs collector Al Wiseman bought the vehicle and brought it to his shop to
restore the car to its former glory.
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Once this 1965 fuel injected Corvette was restored to its
original condition, Wiseman displayed it at his Classic
Corvettes and Collectables showroom on Alternate U.S. 19
in Tarpon Springs until selling it at an auction at his home
along with 120 other vehicles he owned.
The vehicle’s interior was untouched during the modification and is
still in pristine condition.
In 2007, Wiseman sold this vehicle for more than $700 thousand
at auction, a princely sum. Eleven years later in 2018, it was again
sold at auction for $1 million. Normally, a unique marketing
automobile would have never gotten away from General Motors,
but this one did.
Since the Corvette Cutaway was a “mechanical
performance” car, it was eventually deemed irrelevant
and outdated in the new world of electronics and
computers. It was put into storage and remained there
until the 1990s. When Al Wiseman bought the 1965
Corvette Cutaway, it needed to be completely restored,
which he carefully did. Upon completion, he displayed it
at his business in Tarpon Springs, where the public could
see it. In 2007, he sold it for more than $700 thousand
at auction along with over 120 other cars he owned. In
2018, the working model sold again at auction in less
than 2 minutes for $1 million.
You and others saw this piece of automotive history
when it was on display at Wiseman ‘s Tarpon Springs
classic automobile dealership. It is an amazing marketing
tool that General Motors let slip away. Those like you
who got to see it were fortunate indeed. 9