An extremely important car that was at the beginning of Chevrolet Performance as we know it.

Never finished Race...... :)
 

Original ad from May 6, 1957:

My artic blue 56 is vin 2508. Factory no radio, no heat 2x4 car. Kinda cool how close they are.

I believe this is the ex Rich Mason car, which was raced extensively by Rich, later sold by Corvette Mike to Irwin Kroiz and apparently now Freshened/Restored not sure which by Mackay.

----The SR with the smaller fin, which belonged to Richard Fortier (owner of Paragon for a long time) was Jack Douglass's for part of one summer when he was a teenager. Jacks Dad was a prominent GM executive before he founded the Chevy dealer we all know about. He must have had a high standing to just sign that SR out for the better part of a summer!......Bill S

----Not sure if Richard still owns that SR or not.

SR2 owned by Don Yenko later sold to a guy from my area, Cookie Knuth. Cookie traded a 66 or 67 427 vette + cash to Don. Don said it was truly the most terrible car he had ever driven. A friend of mine drove this car to his HS prom.

First pic is at a car show in Wheeling W.va

That is so cool David, wow. So much muscle car history in your area and Pittsburgh back in the day.

That to prom would be cool!

That's an awesome car to see in person. Irwin is a perfectionist,every one of his cars is stunning. Kevin does a great job.

I think it had just had a 125K restoration before Irwin got it and apparently it was restored again ?