By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

What’s with the irrepressible impulse to dream up wagon versions of the Corvette? There’ve been concept Corvette wagons as long as there’ve been Corvettes, and while most of them end up being hideous franken-wagons, this longroof C1 looks like it was truly meant to be. That’s because it’s modeled upon the original Motorama Corvette Nomad that Chevy showed off at Detroit in 1954. This updated version, by Superior 54, has a custom Art Morrison frame and C5 Corvette suspension front and rear. But I read through the ad twice and couldn’t find any mention of an engine. Come on, at $195K for the turn-key version, they better at least be throwing in an LS1. Via duPont Registry.

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

Chevy Nomads are one of the few cars that will be eternally cool. Maybe that’s why Robert “Nick” Nichols wanted one and was willing to wait for it—for 50 years to be exact! Acting on a promise from his wife he was finally able to score a cherry 1955 two-door wagon and put all those years of planning into action. What he ended with is a car that is eternally driveable, sprightly, and able to be cruised across the country if he ever chose to do so.

This is an example of some creative thinking, great use of factory and aftermarket parts, and a guy seeing through his vision for a car that he had dreamt about for decades. Nick told us that he shows and drives the car as much as possible, and as a retired member of the US Army, he has certainly earned the right to do so.

We thank Nick for his service and for letting us crawl all over his hot rod. Click here to see the photos and get the skinny on one totally bitchin’ Nomad.

By Dan Strohl

Hemmings

Kinda. It’s one of those eternal mysteries of gearheaddom: Why did GM never actually produce the Waldorf Corvette Nomad even though, from what we hear, demand for it was high then and a simmering interest in it has remained among old car people to this day. Heck, there’s a homemade clone of it that occasionally shows up at our Hemmings cruise-ins. Of course, the roof later got plopped on the full-size Chevrolet station wagon, the Nomad name lived on into the 1970s and the Corvette became an icon, but the combination of the three never progressed beyond that one show car. Continue reading at Hemmings