Another title for your Corvette bookshelf--this time, from one of the writers whose column graces Corvette Fever each month.

You’ve no doubt read Tom Falconer’s monthly “Right Hand Drive” columns in Corvette Fever for years—his adventures with America’s Only True Sports Car in the U.K. and in Europe. And, more than a few of you have read his previous book, Collector’s Originality Guide: Corvette 1953-1962, not only for its exquisite photography but also for the information you need to authenticate your C1, written in his most-informative style.

Now, Tom—with help from photographer James Mann and the folks at Motorbooks—have published Collector’s Originality Guide: Corvette Sting Ray 1963-1967. There’s a chapter for each year of the second-generation Vette, explaining and showing off the year-to-year changes as well as available powertrains, options, factory documentation (including numbers marked on various components during its manufacture) and plenty of other information you’ll need to make the task of authenticating your midyear—or one you’re interested in buying—that much easier.

The book’s final chapter covers restorations—explaining why they’re done, covering what areas of the C2 tend to need the most attention, what’s involved with restoring each component and sub-assembly. Instead of the usual assembly-manual writing, you get passages like, “When the body is finished, ten friends and neighbors is the ideal number to help with the body drop, and then celebrate with a barbecue. Completely ‘un-car’ people can become quite enthusiastic after this enabling experience, and even confirmed A to B people start to tell the office about how they helped to build a car.”

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