Chevrolet Corvette SS Project XP-64 became the most expensive Corvette of all time after selling for $7.7 million at auction.

The fuel-injected 327-cubic-inch V8 is a very rare option in its own right, but this 1964 Corvette packs a few more rarely-seen features.

A groundbreaking piece of American racing history, the 1957 Corvette SS, sold for a staggering $7.7 million at RM Sotheby’s ...

The record for the most expensive Chevrolet Corvette ever sold has been broken by the 1957 Chevrolet Corvette SS Project XP-64. The hammer went down on the classic Corvette at a whopping $ ...

The racer was the pet project of Corvette “godfather” Zora Arkus-Duntov himself ...

Corvette Racing program and its teams now move on to the Mobil 1Twelve Hours of Sebring and the second round of the IMSA ...

That gave Arkus-Duntov an opening to propose a clean-sheet, all-GM design, and Cole approved it under the codename Project XP-64. Publicly, the car was referred to as a Corvette SS, for Super ...

However, not just any ordinary 'Vette would do, so Chevrolet built a special one on behalf of the Corvette's founder and Chevrolet itself: the 1957 Chevrolet Corvette SS Project XP-64.

Take a look at the fastest Citroën ID19 (read: DS) you'll probably ever see: a 1964 model with a Chevrolet LS1 V8 swap that produces over 400 horsepower - a most unusual eBay find of the day.