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1963 Grand Sport Corvette Sting Ray 004 replica Larry Taylor

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Larry Taylor’s 1963 Grand Sport Corvette #004 Replica, VIDEOS

When Grand Sports #003, #004, and #005 arrived in Nassau under the banner of the “Mecom Racing Team”, they were loaded for bear. This is the now classic Grand Sport look; fat racing tires on wide knockoff wheels, aggressive vented hood, and big wheel flares. And under the hoods were Duntov’s latest engine jewels, the all-aluminum 377 small-block Chevy with 58mm side-draft Weber carbs. It was a romp for the grand Sports, as the Cobras were thrashed.

Three months later, the 1964 class win at the 12 Hours of Sebring with Roger Penske at the wheel of Grand Sport #005 would be the high-water park for the Grand Sports. This time period saw extraordinary advancement in racecar technology, such that by the end of 1965, the three-year-old cars were outdated.

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1963 Grand Sport Corvette #005 Bench Racing With Bill Tower

Only five 1963 Corvette Grand Sport “Lightweight” race cars were ever built under the direction of Zora Arkus-Duntov. In this fascinating bench-racing conversation, Corvette engineer Bill Tower shares behind-the-scenes stories about Grand Sport #005 and the legendary Cobra-killer program that reshaped Corvette racing history.

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The Duntov Files E-Book, Pt. 4: Time Machines, 1963 Grand Sport vs 1989 Trans-Am Corvette

Late in 1989 Corvette Quarterly (formerly “Corvette News”) arranged a special event. Grand Sport #002 was brought together at Sebring International Raceway for a side-by-side comparison test with the then “state-of-the-art” tube chassis Trans-Am C4 Corvette. Twenty-six-years separate the two cars, they are both tube-frame cars with replica bodies, and powered by Chevrolet engines. But that’s where the similarity ends, and the difference is startling.

Grand Sport Build Up

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Vintage Grand Sport Corvette Films from 1962 and 1963 – 2 VIDEOS

Last week while finishing up a story about Bill Tower’s Grand Sport #005 Corvette for Vette Magazine, I came across two YouTube videos posted by GM Heritage Center. The videos are silent and were probably shot with an 8mm camera that someone brought along to the events. The film looks like hand-held and amateurish and not at all the same quality of the Jam Handy films from that era. But, you do get to see the Grand Sports in action.

1996 Grand Sport corvette vs 1971 ls6 454 corvette

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1971 LS6 vs 1996 Grand Sport: Mouse Motor vs Rat Motor

Can the 330-hp LT4 “Mouse Motor” take down the mighty 454 LS6 “Rat Motor”? Car Craft put these Corvettes 25 years apart on the drag strip—and the results were astonishingly close. See how the LS6 and Grand Sport compare in performance and collector value, then download the original June 1996 Car Craft comparison test FREE!