Remember the '63 Corvette Sting Ray that belonged to Harley J. Earl, the designer of the original Corvette? It's this car obviously, and you'll recall that its cockpit is as gloriously blue as its exterior with some two dozen gauges and dials competing for your attention. The dual-panel instrumentation was actually a pre-production 1965 feature, as were the car's four-wheel disc brakes, side-exit exhaust and chrome exterior trim.

Over the weekend, this Corvette, which has a 327-cubic-inch V8, was up on the auction block at Mecum's Indianapolis auction where it sold for $925,000. That's not quite classic Bugatti money, but still a considerable transaction.

Concours, Mecum