The Indy Revolution Heads to the 18th Fairway of Pebble Beach Golf LinksFront-engine Roadsters and Rear-engine Racecars to Compete at the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance This 1965 Lotus-Ford 38, coming to us from The Henry Ford museum, was the first of the revolutionary rear-engine cars to win the Indianapolis…
Panning for Gold in Two Weeks!
Where has the first half of 2018 gone? In just two weeks the Bloomington Gold show will open to the public. Started in 1973, Bloomington Gold Corvettes USA is the longest running all Corvette event in the country and is attended by well over 30,000 people each year. Bloomington Gold…
GM VP Mark Reuss crashes Chevy Corvette ZR1 pace car ahead of Indy race
Washington Post A 2019 Chevy Corvette ZR1 pace car crash led to a 27-minute delay of the 2018 Detroit Grand Prix on Belle Isle. General Motors executive vice president of global product development Mark Reuss was behind the wheel. Both the driver and passenger Mark Sand, an IndyCar official, were…
Featured Corvette: 1958 Convertible Silver Blue with Blue Interior
Silver Blue w/Blue interior, N.O.M. small block, 4-speed manual transmission. 1958 silver blue corvette 1 Every Corvette fan has their favorite year or generation. And with over 65 years over Corvettes, there certainly is plenty to choose from. But milestone years tend to be the most popular. There is of…
Citroën to be First-Time Feature at Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance
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…