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Showing posts with label corvette. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

1963 Split windew, Z06 race car, with a movie credit, and Elvis drove it. That's a hell of a resume

10:58 PM

ahihi

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Rickmann's daily driver Corvette, pinstriped and scalloped by Von Dutch

11:05 AM

ahihi

that is classy.

Because he was the photographer for Hot Rod Magazine, Rickmann worked with the best in the business. He was connected to everyone, and occasionally when the hot new part needed to be installed on something, well, the Corvette was available to fit the new intake, carbs, exhaust...

Notice the carbs sticking through the hood, side pipes... it got the coolest stuff added on. He didn't garage it, left the top down 365, and withing a couple years it was sold off. The new owner didn't have it long before a wiring short burnt it down. Blamed Rickmann for the shoddy wiring, backyard rigged work... but the car was a wreck and used up.

Saturday, November 10, 2012

ALWAYS check out the parking lots at car shows, you never can tell what will be hanging out

1:32 PM

ahihi

it is likely to be http://www.superior54.com/ (thanks Payphone!)

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

one of the nicest and luckiest guys I've met, bought this '63 split window race Corvette before the prices went stratospheric

8:48 PM

ahihi

It sure pays to keep looking for that car you want, you might just find it.

By the way, the sure way to know your speedshop knows it's business? Check out the cars they drive, Bruce is the general manager of JBA (on the windshield) and dyno tunes the cars among other job duties

Saturday, August 11, 2012

SCCA vs Corvette

5:03 PM

ahihi

after 36 straight victories, the Corvette was banned. So was the Porsche 944 turbo in 1988

1956 Corvette SR2

4:27 PM

ahihi

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

1957 Corvette SS

4:14 PM

ahihi

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

2009 ZR1

4:09 PM

ahihi

most expensive production car GM ever made, $103,300. A base Corvette was $48,000

Callaway twin turbo research Corvette

3:25 PM

ahihi

waaay, back in 1988 the Callaway Sledgehammer was driven from Connecticut to Ohio, hit the track and after a bit of tuning was clocked at 255rmph driven by John Lingenfelter.. who got out of the Callaway and got into his Corvette to go home, and said "You know, that goes 100 mph faster than mine?"

Watching the video will show you how they got all that into the engine bay, I was most impressed with their method of cutting out frame, patching it into the air system, and them reinstalling the piece of frame, with outputs to the turbos

Friday, August 10, 2012

The technical process that made Corvettes lighter, stronger, and better side impact crash testing.. 1992

9:27 PM

ahihi

Hydro forming, it uses 7000 psi water to bend steel, and when you don't heat steel, you don't lose strength. So by using cold water, they were able to use thinner side rails to increase interior room, and make getting in and out of the Vette easier.

"official vehicle of America(tiny little 3 over the last a)"

9:27 PM

ahihi

in 1992, Chevrolet sponsored the America's Cup yacht America³ and so were able to designate the Corvette the "official vehicle of America^{3 "}

So it's a small little thing that might be overlooked when you read the big headline "Official vehicle of America". Nice advertising gimmick.

1987 Callaway Corvette, 20 thousand dollars plus buying a Vette from Chevy

9:26 PM

ahihi

Chev's marketing planning director, Don Runkle, gave the Chevy turbo development results to Callaway, who made a 345 hp car that went 177mph. Chevrolet made the Callaway Corvette a RPO (regular production option) code, B2K.

The Callaway Turbo Corvette was available to 20 Chevy dealerships to service and sell, and while they hoped to sell 50, they got orders and sold 188