Video: Mako Shark News-Reel video

[GerryLP]

Tim at Carburetor-Manual dot com send me this link (based at Corvette-World dot com) about the Mako Shark Corvette. It has some pretty cool show-and-tell.

Corvette-World.com - Articles - Corvette TV Commercials & Videos - 1965 Corvette Mako Shark TV Commercial AD Video

GerryLP:cool

 

[fine69]

Gerry,

Wow - thanks for sharing. That commercial is cool on so many levels. I had no idea there was that much innovation already at hand back in '65. I wonder why some of the features were not implemented into the then up-and-coming C3.

Ralph

 

[jrose7004]

I always enjoy watching old videos of concept cars! Thanks for posting it Gerry!

 

[speedbird1229]

I wonder if that car still exists and where is it?

 

[jrose7004]

I wonder if that car still exists and where is it?

I wonder if it's one of the ones GM is going to auction?

 

[Bill75]

Man, that is nice. I like the headlight design.

Thanks

 

[LanceB]

The hood opens up like a C4. You can access everything. I like the open and shutting rear window. Looks like a bulletproof enclosure on the batmobile or a 007 car. The headlights and rear window would have some legal problems if they were ever mass-produced I would think.

 

[lagnaf]

Not to toot my own horn (pun?), but the 73 vette most closely resembles the shape of the Mako Shark... with the blunt rear and the tapered nose.

 

[JohnZ]

We had the Mako Shark II (and the Mako Shark I and the '59 Bill Mitchell Sting Ray racer) on display at the 2006 NCRS National Convention in San Antonio.

 

[lagnaf]

We had the Mako Shark II (and the Mako Shark I and the '59 Bill Mitchell Sting Ray racer) on display at the 2006 NCRS National Convention in San Antonio.

Wow.

 

[petes74ttop]

C-3 Best design ever!

GerryLP, yes, thanks for sharing.
JohnZ, how lucky can you get to see it in person!
To think that car went on a world tour in 1965 must have blown away every other car maker. Imagine a space age 650 HP Shark next to a VW Bug or a Fiat 500!
I'm incredibly proud of my Shark as I'm sure every other owner is.
Long live the C-3.
PG.