Dave and Tracy Maxwell’s '53 Corvette was completely hand-built car that took five years to complete.
The votes are in and Dave and Tracy Maxwell's 1953 Corvette, built by Kindig-It Designs has been named the winner of the prestigious Ridler Award. Completely hand-built, this car is the culmination of more than five years of work, all carried out behind closed doors, because on of the criteria for the Ridler Award is that the car has to make its public debut at the Autorama.
It's difficult to know where to start when describing this car. Nothing about it is a 1953 Corvette. The car was built entirely from scratch out of aluminum.. The shape is loosely based on a Corvette concept car from 1954 called the Corvair. That concept featured a sloping rear window but isn't nearly as elegant as the shape and proportions pulled off by Dave and his crew. In fact, this car is much sleeker and more stylish than Chevrolet's design concept from the '50s.
The rest of the drivetrain resembles that of a C7 Corvette, including the torque tube and 8L90E transaxle. The front and rear suspension are custom-designed by Kindig-It, as are the wheels, which were built by EVOD to Dave's specs. The suspension uses a cantilever design to actuate the coilover shocks, and you can see the rear suspension components peeking through an opening in the package tray—as Baylee described them, "functional and pretty.
How many hours went into the construction of this car? "I am afraid to count," says Baylee. We won't even begin to speculate what the final cost of construction is, either. It's enough to celebrate the skill and expert craftsmanship needed to create something of this caliber., this car truly did stand above them all. Congratulations to Dave and the crew, winners of the 2024 Ridler Award.
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