The 1963 Corvette is perhaps the most unmistakable of all. The split rear window. The razor crease down the fenders. The stinger nose that looks like it’s about to take a bite out of the horizon.

The 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Studio Concept Split Window Coupe was automotive designer Pete Brock's personal car, and now it's heading to auction.

If 19-year-old Peter Brock had been told the sports car he sketched would one day be worth a quarter million dollars, he might’ve asked what you were smoking. Sixty-eight years later, the improbable ...