SIA Flashback – Complex Simplex and Chevrolet’s “Almost” 4-Place Vette

Anybody who ever compared the early histories of the Corvette and Thunderbird had to wonder, if only briefly and for the exercise of thought, whether Chevrolet at least considered a four-seater Corvette after Ford found much success with the four-seater 1958 Thunderbird. For those wonderers, here’s your answer, courtesy Michael Lamm, writing in SIA #60, December 1980. And a bonus article from the same issue, as Marc Stern profiles the 1/6-scale Simplexes that Ed Roy built.