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GRAND SPORT NO MORE.(News)(Grand Sport Corvette )
Byline: WILLIAM JEANES
Sixth racing Vette likely ended up as a puddle of molten aluminum
AutoWeek's search for the rumored sixth Grand Sport Corvette has borne fruit yet again-in unexpected fashion.
When we suggested the existence of a sixth Grand Sport Corvette (AW, July 21), a howl went up from the keepers of conventional wisdom. "Everyone knows there were only five,'' cried the faithful.
According to a reputable restorer who asked not to be named, the original long-running rumor likely owes its existence to a set of factory blueprints for a sixth GS. The source does not believe a sixth one exists-absent incontrovertible proof.
Readers will recall from our original article that Texas oilman John Mecom, who campaigned the Grand Sport Vettes in the early 1960s, claims that he bought not five but six Grand Sports from General Motors. Dallas artist Bill Neale, a longtime friend of Mecom, maintains with no equivocation that a photograph in the Mecom trophy room showed six GS Corvettes in the Mecom Racing shop.
Seeking further confirmation, Mecom called Barry Smyth, a former Mecom Racing employee. Smyth, who had also worked with Corvette patriarch Zora Arkus-Duntov's racing group, stated categorically that there were six Grand Sports.
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