The 1966 Citroën DS 21 Chapron Le Léman Coupé with restorer Vincent Crescia. This year, for the first time ever, Citroën will grace the 18th fairway as a featured marque at the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance on August 26th. The Pebble Beach Tour d’Eleganceposter, painted by Barry Rowe, commemorates…
Fourth Person to Walk on the Moon Passes Away
The 4th person to walk on the moon, and renowned Corvette enthusiast, Alan Bean has passed at age 86. Bean was the lunar module pilot for the 2nd moon landing on November 1969; the Apollo 12 mission. During this mission, he and mission commander Pete Conrad explored on the lunar…
Featured Corvette: 1971 LS6 Sunflower Yellow Coupe
Sunflower Yellow Corvette with Black interior, 454/425hp, 4-spd. manual transmission. If you were in the market for the ultimate Corvette in ’71, you needed to look no further than RPO LS6. Checking this $1,221 option on your order form gave you cast iron 454ci big block engine with aluminum heads,…
1957 Corvette Fuel Injection Unit
This F.I. unit was taken off of a ’57 Corvette engine. It has been completely rebuilt and is ready to be installed. What is needed is the distributor and air cleaner unit (not included).The numbers are as follows: Serial # 2102. Part #7014520. Air Meter #7014521A. Fuel Meter #7014522 which…
Corvette Delivery Turns into Shot Put
After selling their early C3, the owner loaded it up on an open trailer to deliver it to the new owner. But something went drastically wrong on the way. While driving south on Interstate 75, in Harrison Township, Ohio, the pickup truck they were using to tow the Corvette started…
AUTOWEEK: 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1: 6 questions with Tadge Juechter and Alex MacDonald
Challenges, limits and preferences on Chevy’s newest world beater The 2019 Chevy Corvette ZR1 is incontrovertibly an engineering marvel. Taking a nuclear reactor like the LT5, attaching it to a real-deal clutch and forcing 755 hp (and 715 lb-ft of torque) through the driveline, rear diff and eventually to the…
Are Pushrods Old or Smart?
In these times, where every engine in modern cars has overhead cams, why does Corvette still have push rods? This is a common question we get from new Corvette buyers. Is it because GM is slow to change, or is there a good logical reason? When you look at the…
Watch the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Toast a Dodge Demon on the Drag Strip – The Drive
Who wins in this matchup of modern American muscle? Everyone, really. YouTube | Farmer Machine Co Racing These are heady times for American performance cars, with both the new 755-horsepower Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 and the 840-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Demon offering more brute strength than we’ve ever seen before. But…
Featured Corvette: 1957 Tuxedo Black Corvette Fuel Injected Convertible – Rare 283 hp Fuelie!
Tuxedo Black Corvette Convertible w/Red interior, 283/283hp, F.I., 4-spd. manual transmission. The ’57 Corvette was a turning point for America’s Sports Car. After having gained roll-up windows and a more user-friendly soft top mechanism the previous year, Corvette really came into its own in ’57. This was the first year…
212 Mph Corvette Verified
There’s a lot of talk, and videos, popping up on the internet about the 2019 ZR1 these days. New owners are mounting cameras and taking them to Dynos, Race Tracks and Drag Strips and GM is testing at Nurburgring. [embedded content] Since they were already in Germany, GM decided to…