The A-Team’s Executive Chief Engineer, Tadge Juechter lead the presentation. Product Manager Wizard, Harlan Charles, Chief Engineer Josh Holder, and Exterior Manager, Kirk Bennion flushing out the details within their areas of expertise.
The Production Z06 Legend Begins! Dateline: 8-16-22 – This story and art first appeared in “VETTE” magazine as part of my “Illustrated Corvette Series” –...
Grady Davis’ Successful 1963 Z06 Corvette Becomes a Million Dollar Collectible Dateline: 7-20-22 Graphics and illustrations by K. Scott Teeters, this story first appeared in...
Corvette racers never had a better friend than Zora Arkus-Duntov. For the most part, Zora was good at sidestepping GM’s “we don’t race” edict. For those who knew what to look for, there were always plenty of “heavy-duty” and “off-road” options for Corvettes. As the new Sting Ray was being prepared for the ’63 launch, Duntov assembled the most advanced Corvette box racer to that date – the Z06.
With the 2018 racing season completed and the Corvette Racing Team racking up another championship the timing of the Speed Society Z06 couldn’t be better. The Z06’s LT4 engine has been goosed up to 850-horsepower and the deco on the car is a salute to the C7.R. The ZT1 rear wing and ADV.1 two-piece forged alloy wheels pulls the whole look togethe
When the C6 Corvette made its grand debut at the American International Auto Show in Detroit in January 2004, after all the cheers, the next question was, “Where’s the Z06?” Two years later the C6 Z06 debuted at the 2006 American International Auto Show in Detroit. No one was disappointed! Where as the C5 Z06 was a well-executed Corvette Hardtop, with a buffed LS6 engine and some nice visual add-ons, the C6 Z06 was a totally unique car that looked like it was on steroids – and it was!
For its day, the Z06 was a runner, so let’s just right to the performance numbers. With a power-to-weight ratio of 8.09:1, the Z06 could clock 0-to-60 mph in just 4.0-seconds and the quarter-mile in 12.0-seconds at 114-mph. Top speed was just over 170-mph! This was Dreamland in 2001! The best part was that this kind of performance could be ordered from your local Chevy dealer for about the same cost as the Corvette roadster. Gas mileage for this beast was astonishing. So long as you weren’t hot-dogging around, the Z06 could get 18 mpg in the city and 28 mpg on the highway.
