A snapshot of the new Corvette Grand Sport, plus Corvette's international racing legacy on and off the track.
Chevrolet is bringing back the Corvette Grand Sport, leveraging more than 50 years of technology transfer from the track, while incorporating the distinctive styling attributes and special-edition aura. It is also the first production model to incorporate the chassis and suspension elements of the high-performance supercharged model in addition to its wider tires and fenders. It was...
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L88 Corvette
’67 CORVETTE L88: AGAINST ALL ODDS!
The story of one man finding his moment of glory at the 1970 24 Hours of Daytona. This is an excerpt from the first chapter of Against All Odds by Stephen Cox.
The hands on both stopwatches were still in place after the final practice laps at Daytona International Speedway. Unexpectedly low temperatures had turned their stainless steel casings ice cold, but Jeri Gottlob had no gloves.
She wouldn't have worn them anyway over her freshly painted red fingernails.
Twenty-two years old, si...
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RARE L88 CORVETTES: STING RAY & STINGRAY!
It’s a rare day when two important super-high-performance L88 Corvettes cross the block. It doesn’t get better than these prime examples.
Chevrolet tried everything to discourage people from buying L88 Corvettes in 1967 to 1969. The 427 engine with aluminum heads and ultra-high-compression was really a single four-barrel track engine, not engineered to run with mufflered exhausts and on pump gas. Initially dealers were discouraged from selling them and Chevrolet rated the L88 at five horsepo...
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L88 CORVETTES: RAREST OF RARE AT MCACN!
Close to half of the 20 multi-million-dollar ’67 L88s, plus a few ground-pounding 1968-’69 Corvettes, were at one place at one time: MCACN 2013.
Bob Ashton has a reputation for assembling the quickest, fastest, rarest and most valuable muscle cars and Corvettes at his annual Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals (MCACN) in Chicago. This year he outdid himself. Working with Kevin Mackay at Corvette Repair, Valley Stream, NY, they assembled a mind-boggling number of L88 Corvettes, including seve...
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