Chevy that has likely been sitting for many years hopes a bunch of photos exposing its best features would convince someone ...

Upon the Project XP-64's completion, GM was ready to throw it to the wolves ... apparently unsure the XP-64 would even make the race, as the car was finished just a week prior to the off.

The one-of-a-kind roadster was the first purpose-built General Motors race car. In becoming the most expensive Corvette, the SS Project XP-64 broke a record that had stood for more than a decade.

The Corvette SS, internally known as Project XP-64, birthed all modern racing variants of America's Sports Car.

That gave Arkus-Duntov an opening to propose a clean-sheet, all-GM design, and Cole approved it under the codename Project XP-64. Publicly, the car was referred to as a Corvette SS, for Super ...

However, not just any ordinary 'Vette would do, so Chevrolet built a special one on behalf of the Corvette's founder and Chevrolet itself: the 1957 Chevrolet Corvette SS Project XP-64.