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This wild Corvette wagon for sale on Craigslist has a practical hatch in the back and a proto-lightbar upfront. Builders have been grafting a more extended roof onto the rears of Corvettes for decades. In the 1970s, several designers and builders all made their takes on how a long-roof C3 Corvette should look.
One such builder, Michigan-based custom car builder Chuck Miller had a client with a tall order. As Corvette Magazine reports, Uriel Jones, a drummer in Motown’s the Funk Brothers, loved his Corvette but was disappointed that it couldn’t haul his gear. Miller decided that the best way to fill Jones’ needs was to build a wagon. Miller contacted Harry Bradley, an industrial designer that worked at GM and designed Hot Wheels for Mattel, to design a wagon rear end that matched the Corvette’s design.
The result was a wagon with an expanded cargo capacity that looked like it rolled out of the factory that way. Miller built a handful of Corvette wagons before passing the torch onto Ralph Eckler, who sold the wagon conversions as a kit. Bradley’s design for Betterton would take the Corvette wagon idea to the extreme.
