Art Richards has always been a corvette enthusiast. In the early 1970's he started repairing and restoring corvettes out of his garage at his home. With all the attention his own cars were getting he decided to set up a shop and make this his career. He soon owned three shops in Huntington Beach, Santa Ana, and Costa Mesa. He soon became experienced in ground up restorations to full on prototyping and development. Art's interest in all types of racing, from drag racing to F1, has always been an inspiration in his designs. He went into semi retirement in the mid 80's to raise his family. Even while he was in his semi retirement he did not stop developing and prototyping. He created many new designs still being used today for RC cars and shifter carts. Arts passion for corvettes and prototyping soon brought him out of his retirement and he teamed up with a partner to form American Supercars and Prototypes. During that partnership Art innovated the first ever electronic universal paddle shifter in the early 1990's. The company has since dissolved and he is back in business bringing exciting new race inspired creations to the public as Arts Corvettes and Prototypes. He continues to develop and fine tune, custom bodies, suspension, On-Board PC's, interiors, wheels, high performance motors, and the list goes on and on.
Art has now combined his talents with the talents of his son Drew Richards, and they have put together an unbeatable team. Drew Richard’s background is as impressive as his dads. Drew has years of RC racing, shifter cart racing, AutoCAD, and hands on automotive design and fabrication work. Drew's experience allows him to lay out his designs on paper, build the clay and foam models, then create the full carbon fiber and fiberglass bodies. Arts and Drew’s skills have allow them to design from the ground up vehicles like "The American Spirit" which is currently being showed at places such as SEMA 2004, 2005 LA Car Show, Invitation Only Blackies Autorama, and the Good Guys Shows, and multiple magazine and video spots.
Arts Corvettes has been building supercars before the name was popular. Good
old American horse power and ingenuity mostly based on corvette platforms
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Thanks to our troops for a job well worth doing- Arts Corvettes Team