{"id":368416,"date":"2009-01-09T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2024-12-06T03:30:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T03:30:38","slug":"historic-gulf-oil-corvette-offered-mecum-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/historic-gulf-oil-corvette-offered-mecum-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Gulf Oil Corvette Offered \u2013 Mecum Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Mecum Auction will offer the historically significant 1963 Gulf Oil Corvette Z06 Race Car at their upcoming Mecum Kissimmee Auction, January 22-24, 2009, in Kissimmee, Florida.<\/p>\n

Capitalizing on the introduction of the radical new-for-1963 Corvette Sting Ray, legendary Corvette Chief Engineer Zora Arkus Duntov defied the Automobile Manufacturers Association’s collective racing ban and commissioned Regular Production Option Z06, a special component package that elevated Corvette performance to a level never before seen in a production car.<\/p>\n

This historic 1963 Z06 \u2013 driven by Dr. Dick Thompson of “Flying Dentist” fame and known simply as “Gulf One” \u2013 competed in the 1963 Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) National Championship. During its career, it was the most widely campaigned of all the works cars and the only one to campaign at the national level, racing in more venues than any other. It remains the most highly original of all the racing Z06 Sting Rays and a monument to one of American sports car racing’s greatest eras.<\/p>\n

“This Gulf Oil Z06 is the last of the factory Corvette racers available and is the very car that led to the development of the Grand Sports prototype back in 1963,” said Dana Mecum, president of Mecum auctions. “An amazing 45 years after its race debut, Mecum Auction is pleased to bring collectors the opportunity to own one of the most important cars in the history of production Corvette performance development.”<\/p>\n

This Sting Ray’s road to fame is extraordinary. Of the 21,513 production Corvettes in 1963, the Gulf One (Serial Number 2227) was:<\/p>\n