Sehr gut! This restomod is a German take on the classic C1 Chevy Corvette
Pogea Classics gives a 1950s 'Vette 427bhp and 'Rosso Corsa' Ferrari paint
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To our American friends, this will probably look like a fairly standard C1 Corvette restomod. However, this particular 1950s Chevy was actually given its new lease of life in Germany.
Yep, this is the work of Friedrichshafen tuner Pogea Racing, or more specifically its reasonably new sub-brand Pogea Classics. We led with the decade rather than the specific year, because Pogea quickly discovered this particular car was a cut-und-shut: the front half a 1959 car bolted to the rear of one from 1958.
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'Doors would neither open nor close properly, and panel gaps were beyond correction,' said Pogea. 'The central tub had been crudely severed and poorly fused.' Ouchy.
Time for a makeover. It's the third C1 Pogea has taken on, and this 'Vette has been fitted with a GM LS3 V8 making 427bhp from its 6.3-litre capacity. To cope with that power, there's a reinforced tubular chassis (developed in cooperation with SRIII Motorsports and the Technical University of Munich), a four-speed automatic gearbox and a custom Pogea exhaust, plus fully adjustable coilovers and the front brakes from a C6 Corvette. The rear brakes are from a C5 while the servo is from a C4. Whole lot of mix-und-matching going on here.
The wheels are 19in items from Pogea's own range, and we're told the bonnet, doors, fabric roof and bootlid are all new parts manufactured in Germany. The paint on top of those panels is another mix though, with a Ferrari shade of 'Rosso Corsa' and 'Ibis White' from Audi.
This customer also specced Pogea's LED rear lights, while the chrome trim is apparently all original GM that has been refurbished and replated. Inside there's red leather from Lamborghini and white from Rolls-Royce, while the door cards and a number of trim pieces were apparently manufactured in-house. There are digital instruments too, plus a RetroSound head unit for the full Apple CarPlay in a restomod experience.
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Quite the FrankenVette's monster, no?
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