Showing posts with label Factory lightweight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Factory lightweight. Show all posts

Saturday, November 17, 2012




Q code, single 4 barrel, 427 with cast iron hi flow exhaust headers






If I could recall all that I was told by the owner, a Holman or Moody, I can't recall which... but a nice guy, he said this was beign neglected in a museum, the NASCAR museum I think, and it hadn't been maintained, kept up, not even properly stored for decades. So when a Holman Moody museum was started, they got their cars back... see, they hadn't sold them to the museums, just loaned them. http://www.holmanmoody.com/

Saturday, August 11, 2012


designed for Bill Mitchell, and 3 were made. The first was test and eval, the 2nd was for Bill personally and to get some racing trophys, and he had Smokey Yunick prep and maintain it. So many parts were made from lighter weight stuff, that they shaved 700 pounds off the factory model

info and images from http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z15199/Chevrolet-Corvette-SR2.aspx

it was built by buying a Mercedes 300sl, and recreating the chassis with a tube frrame, and mounting the Corvette racing gear to that. Magnesium body parts to get it lightweight, and they went racing at Sebring