This particular 1960 Chevrolet Corvette is a “survivor,” which means it has all original parts and matching numbers.

The 1960 Chevrolet Corvette is visually unchanged form the 1959 model year. Color options were Roman Red, Honduras Maroon, Ermine White, Sateen Silver, Tasco Turquoise, Tuxedo Black, Horizon Blue, and Cascade Green. Convertible top colors were black, blue, red, and turquoise.

A little over 500 Corvettes for this year were optioned with power windows, while 512 were selected with a power convertible soft top.

Engine options were largely carried over from the 1959 model year. All were versions of the 283 cid Chevy small-block V-8, and there were as many as seven configurations, ranging from the base 230hp model with a single four-barrel carburetor, all the way up to a 315 hp model that utilized fuel injection and a high-lift camshaft.

Transmission options continued to be a 2-speed automatic, 3-speed manual and 4-speed manual. All fuel-injected models came with a manual transmission and were not available with an automatic.

Another WIN for the 1922 Packard Rides

This year’s rides will feature two vintage cars, four drivers and popcorn!

The National Association of Auto Museums recently awarded the Heart of Route 66 Auto Museum FIRST PLACE in the 2023 Division 1 category for best Events & Public Promotions! 

This year, we’re even expanding! In addition to the popular 1922 Packard, riders can experience vintage open-air motoring in a 1922 Cadillac Phaeton as well. 

Rides are $15 per person and take passengers from the museum to nearby Pretty Water Lake in Sapulpa. Reservations are open for rides starting May 1 and lasting through the end of September. They will run every Saturday morning from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. with four drivers, weather permitting.

“The Packard car ride was widely successful last year, and we can’t wait to offer even more fun this year for individuals, couples, families and history lovers at our museum!”

The $15 per person ticket for a ride includes admission to the Heart of Route 66 Auto Museum, showcasing retro and historic cars, as well as popcorn.

Book your ride now by calling the museum at (918) 216-1171.

ABOUT THE HEART OF ROUTE 66 AUTO MUSEUM

Located on historic Route 66 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, the Heart of Route 66 Auto Museum showcases a variety of cars, motorcycles and memorabilia. It is located at 13 Sahoma Lake Road in Sapulpa. For more information, visit heartofroute66.org.

• One of just 600 Convertible Coupes produced in 1938
• Older award-winning restoration
• Wheelbase: 125 in
• 110 hp. 287.3 cu. in. L-head V-12 engine, three-speed sliding gear manual transmission, solid front axle with a transverse leaf spring, three-quarter rear axle with a transverse leaf spring, and four-wheel mechanical drum brakes
• Known history from new (five owners)
• Offered from prominent collection

Like other prestige manufacturers, Lincoln needed a more moderately priced car to help it endure the tough times of the post-Depression era. The Zephyr was introduced in November 1935. The streamlined teardrop styling was credited to designer John Tjaarda, of the Brigs Body Company, with help from a young Ford designed named Eugene T “Bob” Gregorie and input from Edsel Ford. The trio was ultimately credited with fashioning one of the first successful streamlined cars in America.

The Zephyr was powered by a new small V-12 engine derived from the standard Ford flathead V-8. Despite the advanced styling and novel V-12 engine, its parent organization, the Ford Motor Company, was never happy with sales. Yet, of the 18,994 Lincolns sold units first year, 17,715 were Zephyrs, which arguably kept the Lincoln division of the Ford Motor Company alive. In its third year, Lincoln produced 19,111 units, including just 600 of this six-passenger, two door convertible coupe model.

V-16 Convertible Coupe by Fleetwood

• Series 90 – Body Style 9067
• 185 bhp, 431 cu. in.
• L-head V-16 engine, three-speed selective synchromesh manual transmission, independent front suspension with coil-spring suspension, semi floating rear axle, and four-wheel hydraulic drum brakes
• Wheelbase: 141.25 in.
• An authentic V-16 convertible coupe with the original chassis, engine, and body
• One of only seven examples built

For 1939, Cadillac introduced its second-generation V-16 engine. More conventional in design than the original, it featured a simple side-valve configuration packed in an unusual 135-degree-bank angle (nearly horizontally opposed!). But it offered comparable horsepower and torque while weighing a remarkable 250 pounds less and was less costly to build. It provided a win-win situation, both for V-16 enthusiasts and for Cadillac, which was facing decreasing sales as the U.S. struggled to recover from the Great Depression.

The new engine was mounted on a shortened chassis with the same 141.25” wheelbase as the eight-cylinder Series 75. This enabled the two series to share Fleetwood bodies and lower prices from 1937 cars by a wide margin.

Twelve body styles were catalogued for 1938 and1939, comprising a full range of possible configurations, all with beautiful styling directed by GM’s young emerging legend, Bill Mitchell, who borrowed design cues from his very modern Series 60 Special.

The Heart of Route 66 Auto Museum was the ONLY OKLAHOMA STOP for the 2021 Great Race!

The Annual Great Race, which had to be abandoned in 2020 because of COVID-19, was back on schedule Monday, June 21, 2021 with one-hundred-seven racers pulling into Heart of Route 66 Auto Museum for their lunch break. It was the third day of a race that began in San Antonio, TX and ended in Greenville, SC.

To see more photos from day 3, and the entire 2021 event, click the button below…

For those who haven’t heard of this guy before, this is the Chip Foose Design Chevrolet Imposter. It is a 100 percent customized 1965 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport with the skeleton of a 2008 C6 Chevrolet Corvette. Foose recently celebrated 30 years of design at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, so I drove down to check it out and get some photos of this wild animal.

This project was the result of Foose and his customer Don Voth contemplating a simple question: “What if Chevy’s Corvette division had made a muscle car in 1965?” The company already had the Corvette, and it already had the Impala SS model, so what would have happened if they made one to fill the gap? This is Foose’s vision of how that would have turned out.

When the Imposter was given the green light, Voth went to a dealership to buy a brand new C6. Then it was immediately brought back to the garage and completely stripped to start prepping for its new coat. Of course, the Impala body didn’t remain the same either. A quick run-down shows that, to make this work, the Corvette platform was stretched seven inches and the Impala was shortened 14 inches. The roof is now 1.25 inches lower and eight inches shorter, the deck lid is seven inches shorter, the windshield was laid down 2.5 inches, the bumpers were hand-made, and the rear wheel wells are raised two inches and pulled forward seven inches.

We were very honored to have the Imposter on display for over a year, and hope to have it back again soon!