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Photo Credit: Car & Driver Speculation is running rampant on the Internet these days about what’s believed to be the long-dreamed-about mid-engine C8 Corvette, predicted to be a 2019 model. Car & Driver’s Don Sherman believes the new Corvette will have just one transmission available when it comes out in less than two years – a dual-clutch automatic transmission (DCT) from Tremec. Sherman says Tremec – which supplies the manual transmission for the C7...
Whenever there’s a “car movie” on the big screen, it’s definitely always more exciting for Corvette enthusiasts if there is one of “America’s Favorite Sports Car” in the scene. Well, Hollywood is getting ready for another rendition of the “Fast and Furious” series, and good news, “Fast 8” is going to feature a 1966 Rally Red Corvette. Chalk up a great reason to watch this movie when it hits the screens on April 14,...
Today officially marks the 64th year of the Corvette as the 2017 Corvette model year begins retail production today at the Bowling Green Assembly Plant. The plant has been building the 2017 model year Corvettes for a few months now as those cars get driven and analyzed by engineers as part of GM’s Captured Test Fleet. But for customers waiting on the new 2017 Corvette Grand Sport, this is the day they’ve been waiting...
Our own VP John Romano and his 68 G.T.O. This article was published June 2o, 2016 in the Tampa Bay Times! While growing up in the ’50s and ’60s it was all about cars, and the Pontiac brand was always my favorite. Pontiac always seemed to have the latest advancements in design and style. In October 1967, I saw the new ’68 GTO on the cover of a car magazine with its new...
As the former owner of a fully restored 1971 Corvette LT1 coupe that I took a beating on with the economic downturn in 2009, this 1970 LT1 convertible up for sale on eBay through Tuesday night at 8:15 really caught my eye. The lines of the car make it one of the most beautiful Corvettes ever built, in this writer’s opinion. But sometimes beauty comes coupled with a beast, especially in this case. As...
Here’s good looking barn find Corvette that would give a rise to any automotive archeologist. This Riverside Gold 1969 Corvette Stingray was recently unearthed in a barn where it had been stored since 1975. Under the hood of this Corvette convertible is the sought-after big block L71 which was the Tri-Power 427/435 V8 engine. The car was recently transferred to Carolina Muscle Cars where it was cleaned up and offered for sale on eBay....
Here’s a barn find with a still-developing story. The mystery all starts innocently enough with a poster seeking help on Corvette Forum. Hello, I’m new to the Corvette world and have purchased a 1971 convertible that has been in a barn since around 1972. So this will be the first of many questions. Paint code is 984 but the car is Red? I see no signs of it having been painted as the...
V.I.P. TOURS How would you like to see the GM Bowling Green Corvette Assembly Plant while on your very own private tour? Well, let The National Corvette Museum help make your dream come true! V.I.P. tours last for 3-4 hours and include the GM Bowling Green Corvette Assembly Plant and the National Corvette Museum. Your tour originates at the Museum. Tours of the Assembly Plant follow the same route that public tours also follow,...
Chevrolet paid this tribute to Prince(Photo: Twitter) As tributes continue to pour in marking the death of Prince, few were more striking than the one that came from General Motors’ Chevrolet division. Chevy bought full-page ads in six newspapers that depict the iconic back end of a crimson 1963Chevrolet Corvette. It was pictured against a black background with the epitaph: “Baby that was much too fast, 1958-2016,” a nod to the lyrics in Prince’s 1982...
“1963” Superformance Corvette Grand Sport Review The intimidating, angry sound of side pipes, the rare scent of hydrocarbons knocking sooty memories from the corners of your brain, and the way classic body sculpting and painstaking details of an “old” car rekindle your teenage automotive lust is only part the experience. Because if you’ve ever driven a 50-year-old car, much less a high-strung ’60s race car, you also know well the trepidation that’s part...
Obsessed with authenticity, one owner returns a holy-grail ’63 Corvette to a factory-fresh state View Image Gallery Feature Article from Hemmings Muscle Machines November, 2014 – Terry Shea Firmly at the helm of the good ship Corvette in the early 1960s, chief engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov–a two-time class winner at Le Mans in a Porsche in the mid-1950s–deftly got around GM’s racing ban by making certain that road racers could properly outfit their cars from...
It turns out that one way to make a Corvette even faster is to pull out the engine and add batteries. Genovation Cars is a company that, among other things, converts Corvettes to electric power, creating a high-performance sports car it calls the Genovation eXtreme Electric (GXE, for short). And now the company claims to have broken the top-speed record for production-based electric cars with one of these vehicles During a test conducted...
Born in 1963 from a legendary performance pedigree, the Corvette Grand Sport is making a grand return. The latest member of the Corvette lineup, the 2017 Grand Sport carries on the intrepid racing spirit of the original model. The combination of the legendary LT1 6.2L V8 engine, a lightweight, race-bred chassis and aerodynamics package provides incredible grip and handling. The all new Grand Sport is a true purists Corvette. Chevrolet used the occasion...
Origin and development The 1959 Corvette Sting Ray concept and 1960 XP-700 show car in the front and the 1963 Corvette convertible and fastback in the back. The 1963 Sting Ray production car’s lineage can be traced to two separate GM projects: the Q-Corvette, and perhaps more directly, Mitchell’s racing Sting Ray. The Q-Corvette, initiated in 1957, envisioned a smaller, more advanced Corvette as a coupe-only model, boasting a rear transaxle, independent rear suspension,...
