Interestingly, this '63 convertible was serial number 148, an even earlier VIN than the Chicago Auto Show car, so we suspect Knudsen's Corvette was already in service when it was modified by the Engineering garage.
This is the car featured here, pulled from obscurity and restored to perfection by Werner Meier, who is one of those rare combinations of car enthusiast, collector, researcher, historian, restorer, and GM employee. We pick up the story in the early 1980s. The Knudsen convertible had passed through six owners in the Detroit area and had been used all
its life as a daily driver until it reached a sad state of repair. Stored in a garage where it was used as a scaffold, the rear deck was broken from people standing on it. The
frame was corroded, the paint was
in poor condition, and the interior
was worn out. Basically, the car was undriveable.