Ask 10 Corvette lovers what their favorite Corvette year was and you’re liable to get 10 different answers. For Ken Scheidt, the magic year was 1965.
“I like the ’64 through ’67s, and I really like the ’65s because that’s the year I graduated from high school and I remember it being in the magazines and everything. I like the disc brakes and the side pipes, which was an option in ’65,” Scheidt says.
“I come from a Chevy family. My dad always had Chevys, and when Corvettes first came on the market I was a young, impressionable guy. I liked them then and I still like Chevys. And I’ve always really been attracted to this body style. Ever since they came out in ’63, I’ve always loved the way these cars looked.”
Scheidt, a resident of tiny Custer, Wis., had gone through several Corvettes by the time he bought his 1965 back in 1978. At that point, he viewed the car as a bit of a well-used “fixer-upper” and had no great plans for it other than to keep it running and enjoy driving it. The odometer had spun 105,000 miles in the Corvette in the car’s first 13 years, and Scheidt had visions of adding quite a few more.
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, but even the early ones are a pain in the ass to work on. 