The highly anticipated Corvette C7 has had its fair share of leaks, but this one might be the most revealing one yet revealing that the next-generation of Chevrolet‘s great American sports car will indeed live up to its hype. Details accompanying some signature blurry-cam photos include that the C7 Corvette…
Bedford, Mass. – Vettes for Vets, Sunday Bedford VA Hospital
Posted Sep 24, 2012 Bedford VAMC will host the 9th Annual Vettes to Vets Program at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 30 at the Bedford VAMC, 200 Springs Road. The event will feature a caravan of more than 350 corvettes, color guard presentation, live music and a Veteran’s Benefit Fair. Veterans…
NASA Starts Work on Real Life Star Trek Warp Drive
Jesus Diaz “Perhaps a Star Trek experience within our lifetime is not such a remote possibility.” These are the words of Dr. Harold “Sonny” White, the Advanced Propulsion Theme Lead for the NASA Engineering Directorate. Dr. White and his colleagues don’t just believe a real life warp drive is theoretically…
LE MANS: Larbre’s Sao Paulo WEC Exclusion Explained
For the second FIA World Endurance Championship race in a row, Larbre Competition’s No. 50 Corvette C6.R was excluded from the results after failing post-race technical inspection. While an out-of-date fire extinguisher bottle saw Julien Canal, Patrick Bornhauser and Fernando Rees’ second place finish in the Six Hours of Silverstone…
At 102, she changes oil, spark plugs on her 82-year-old car
Pop math quiz: If you cherished and maintained the same car for 63 years and you changed your own oil every 3,000 miles, how much money would you save? Answer: A lot. Just ask Margaret Dunning, a 102-year-old Michigan woman who’s been making headlines after her energetic appearance at a…
New Corvette TV show coming this January on the Speed Channel
New Corvette TV show coming this January on the Speed Channel. Watch the 3 minute teaser! Watch the 3 minute teaser! http://vimeo.com/30811817
A LITTLE GRAND SPORT HISTORY
Tux Hadler posted in Corvette Pal’s. In early 1962 Corvette Chief Engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov began a project known to the engineers of the Chevrolet Division as ‘THE LIGHTWEIGHT’. Arkus-Duntov and his engineers began a mission to meet the challenge of the purpose-built sports racers of Europe and the Shelby Cobra…
Corvette stolen 10 years ago found
MATT CAMPBELL FOUND AGAIN: The stolen 1968 Chevrolet Corvette V8 convertible. Wharf inspectors in Brisbane have uncovered a stolen 1968 Chevrolet Corvette V8 convertible after prying open the doors of a shipping container which had been sitting on the docks for a decade. The car was reported stolen 10 years…
Corvette Museum hires architect for upcoming motorsports park, seeks sponsors
By Scott Burgess RSS feed Posted Sep 17th 2012 3:31PM The pride and joy of Bowling Green, Kentucky, is about to get a lot bigger. The National Corvette Museum is planning to build a motorsports park and has already hired Steve Crawford, the architect behind Thunderhill Raceway Park in Willows,…
Corvette Racing sweeps ALMS GT Championships with VIR 240 victory
ALTON, Va. – Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner won the American Le Mans Series GT Drivers Championship with a victory today in the VIR 240 at Virginia International Raceway. Their fourth victory in nine races clinched the GT Manufacturer Championship for Chevrolet and wrapped up the GT Team Championship for…