---
title: "You Can Buy This Custom Corvette With a Truly Ridiculous Grille"
description: "The custom job takes some pretty artistic liberties, but maybe it works for you."
date: "2021-10-03"
modified: "2021-10-03"
authors:
  - name: "Stef Schrader"
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url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/42607/you-can-buy-this-custom-corvette-with-a-truly-ridiculous-grille"
categories:
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  - "Culture"
  - "For Sale"
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  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "Chevrolet"
  - "Corvette"
  - "Coupe"
  - "sports car"
---

# You Can Buy This Custom Corvette With a Truly Ridiculous Grille

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2021/10/corvettedeville_970x546.jpeg>)
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The 1970s brought us all kinds of strange neoclassical rides, from [Panther](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/40996/cruellas-hero-car-is-a-forgotten-piece-of-british-luxury>) to [Zimmer](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/15697/luxury-car-enthusiast-from-buffalo-township-selling-rare-zimmer>) and Excalibur, so why not take a 1970s [Chevrolet Corvette](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/41297/87-year-old-car-nut-finally-gets-the-new-chevy-corvette-hes-always-wanted>) and make it look like one of Cruella de Vil's garage rejects? That's what someone did to this heavily customized 1977 Corvette, for sale on Finnish for-sale site [Nettiauto](<https://www.nettiauto.com/chevrolet/corvette/12401490>).

The seller calls it the "Chevrolet Corvette Musai," and states that it's the only one like it in the world. It's a project—this is the country that brought us [*My Summer Car*](<https://kotaku.com/22-life-lessons-i-learned-from-a-permadeath-car-game-1788208794>), after all—but the seller says the bodywork is 90 percent done.

![message-editor%2F1633182427436-242164166\_648131506352002\_6785334000400152577\_n.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1633182427436-242164166_648131506352002_6785334000400152577_n.jpg>)
**Risto Majuri via Facebook Marketplace**

What is done is spectacular from the few photos on the ad. Somehow this retro-custom Corvette builder managed to [outdo even BMW](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/30351/bmw-defends-polarizing-concept-4-design-massive-kidney-grilles>) with this version of a giant grille, which sticks up in the middle of the front in order to give the car that neo-classical body shape. Only this is a Corvette, so you can't reshape it that much and it just ends up looking like a protruding snout. The sunburst texturing in the grille to draw extra eyeballs towards it is a nice touch, too. [Adrian van Hooydonk](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/30351/bmw-defends-polarizing-concept-4-design-massive-kidney-grilles>), eat your heart out.

Fortunately, that grille at least feeds a 350-c.i. small block. However, since it's mated to an automatic transmission and a whole lot of extra bodywork, don't expect it to be too fast. Nor should you expect much rearward visibility with such a small oval-shaped rear window. At least the rear is the better-looking end of the car.

![message-editor%2F1633182229490-corvette-custom\_970x546.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content-b/message-editor/1633182229490-corvette-custom_970x546.jpg>)
**Risto Majuri via Facebook Marketplace**

No price is listed on Nettiauto—just "sold on a bid basis," as translated by DeepL. There is a duplicate ad up on [Facebook](<https://www.facebook.com/commerce/listing/590771028621021/?media_id=0&ref=share_attachment>) with the same disclaimer, but also with a €20,000 ($23,188) list price. We suspect the seller may know what he has.

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## Author
Stef Schrader is a former senior staff writer for The Drive. She started writing about cars in 2013 after meeting Jalopnik's editor-in-chief at a race track, where Stef can be found at every available opportunity.

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