By Scott Ross

You've rarely seen the words “Corvette Sting Ray” and “Peanut butter” in the same sentence.


Until now. And we’ve got a good reason to do it.

Some of you may have combined those words back in the ‘60s, while being chased by the local news agent for getting your sticky, peanut-butter-covered mitts on the latest issue of Motor Trend that spotlighted the all-new, second-generation Vette. Later, you’d be chased out of your hometown Chevy showroom for doing the same to the Sebring Silver split-window coupe that had just been rolled onto the showroom floor, after hours of polishing and detailing by the dealer's new-car-prep crew.

And some of you probably combined those words, along with a barrage of unprintable ones, at the alleged “structural adhesives” used to “repair” the Corvette that you were now trying to restore. You likely wondered what sort of a semi-human life form would use a material that had the same properties as peanut butter—and Extra Crunchy, at that—to join and/or fill fiberglass body components.

But Glen Perciful’s midyear, which we featured in our November ’07 issue, took the peanut butter connection one step further—in the right direction.

Seems that a buddy of his was a builder of custom exhaust systems for street rods and other fun machines, and that a former peanut butter-making plant near them was being dismantled. In it was a big supply of four-inch-diameter, stainless steel tubing. That had been used to encase a smaller stainless line that was used to pump the freshly-made P.B. to the packaging end of the plant. Inside that four-inch line, a steady flow of hot water flowed through the gap between the tubing lines to keep the peanut butter flowable.

Glen’s buddy scored some of that four-inch tubing, and before long it was the side-exhaust system  on the 427-powered ’66 Sting Ray coupe that you see here.

Check out our November ’07 issue for more on Glen’s midyear, including Glen’s comments about his Grand Sport look-alike. Can’t find it at your local newsstand? Get it from our back-issue crew at www.simbackissues.com.