Often in our admiration of stock, unadulterated Corvettes - be they classics or the latest C5 screamers - we forget that there is another nexus in the Corvette universe. It’s an area where creativity and personality pick up where the factory left off. It is the realm of the modifieds, and while few cruise down this road less traveled, we all can enjoy and appreciate the parade. Some modifieds are so subtle that you almost miss them. Others take their handiwork to a hedonistic extreme. But perhaps the ones we gaze longest upon are those like Mason Gott’s ’63 split window. These are the Corvettes which straddle the chasm between refined and ragged-edged.
Mason’s Corvette immediately caught our attention while it sat on the crowded showfield at the 2000 Corvettes at Carlisle. No doubt the striking Yellow Pearl topcoat went a