With the auction Barrett-Jackson, the famous deals in the astronomical sums, will sell what Corvette 1959. Actually, he was commissioned in 1958.
The owner was going to participate in official races. Silver color for the sports car painted on the line, the pilot came not to taste.
Corvette with a 290-horsepower V8 and the fuel injection has received a unique shade of purple, and then by a rather strange name Purple People Eater (purple people eater).
This did not prevent Corvette in the 1959 season to be on the podium of club racing SCCA.
What happened next, history is silent. We only know that in 1974 it bought the brand for fans of the symbolic $ 800. This was the beginning of his new destiny. Corvette is now returned to its original condition, including the original tone of the body. According Barrett-Jackson, now it may well be worth no less than a million dollars.
