Devins came in all kinds of configurations, on unlike chassis, as well as with slightly dissimilar bodywork. This Devin C, which stands for Corvair is powered past a bring up-engine Chevrolet apartment six-cylinder engine which made the niggling auto rocket from 0-lx in merely under 4 seconds. Based on its serial number DC1-001-2, this is simply the minute Type C model to be built and ane of but lx to ever be built, of those, solely xiv are known to all the same live in beingness today.
Originally the automobile could be purchased inward a Kit Form for $ii,750 or as a turnkey for $4,590 (about $46,000 inwards today'second dollars), pregnant a Devin Type-C, to position that in perspective a Devin toll more than than Porsche 356 Speedster or Austin Healey 3000.
The Devin was the brainchild of Bill Devin, a 1950'second California race automobile driver, too hot rodder. The Devin pattern became and then pop that 27 different variations were produced designed to mount on chassis from Triumph, MG, Maserati, too eventually, the custom chassis Devin SS which was called past approximately "the Cobra Killer." Devin won the SCCA championships in 1956 and 1959 and a Devin fifty-fifty won NHRA class titles from 1964-1966.
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