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This Rad Rides by Troy-built '63 split-window Corvette went from restaurant prop to ripping up the street!

- STEVEN RUPP

If you work long enough in this business, you think you’ve seen it all—then you’re proved wrong. Such is the case with this pro street 1963 split-window Corvette. The fire-breathing, tire-smoking ride you see here was never meant to be driven, or even fired up.

Turns out the previous owner commissioned Rad Rides by Troy to build a wild pro street ’63 split-window Vette to decorate his restaurant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The plan was for it to hang on the wall like a rather large three-dimensional picture. Well, the insurance company said nope to that idea, but the car did hang out quietly in the eatery’s lobby for 8 years.