The 427 big-block L88 Corvette was never meant for the street. With brutal big-block power, racing hardware, and thunderous open headers, it became one of the most feared Corvettes ever built. L88 Corvettes dominated road racing from 1968 to 1973.
Before the Corvette Grand Sport racers shocked the sports-car world in 1963, Dave MacDonald drove a strange and lightweight Corvette-based race car known as the MacDonald-Simpson 1961 Corvette Special. With a dramatically shortened wheelbase and purpose-built racing body, the car blurred the line between production Corvette and prototype racer—making it one of the most intriguing early Corvette competition machines.
BREAKING NEWS from the World of Corvette! National Corvette Museum’s New, Richard Prince: “Speed Capture – The Photographic Works of Richard Prince” Exhibit: (video) Richard Prince...
Throwback to 1987 IMSA GT V6 4.5-Liter Turbo Corvette – 1,000 HP Since 1999 the Pratt & Miller Corvette Racing Team has built and campaigned...
Taking “Sportsman” to a whole new level! This story was originally published in the July 2024 issue of Vette Vues Magazine. “By building and sailing...
And Why Are We Talking About His 1960 Corvette Race Car? This story first appeared in the August 2024 issue of Vette Vues Magazine. Lloyd...
Whatever became of the first, independent, purpose-built, 1,750-pound Corvette racer? Unless you are familiar with the early days of Corvette racing, the name Dave...
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.
