A drag racer got a nasty surprise when the outlaw Corvette dragster he was driving took to the air at over 200 mph in Oklahoma. [embedded content] According to Motor1, driver Daniel Pharris was at the controls of Alepa Racing’s eye-wateringly powerful 4,000 horsepower twin-turbo C7 during the Radial Revenge…
Featured Car of the Week: 1956 Lincoln Continental Mark II Coupe Light Blue
Light Blue exterior, White w/Blue inserts interior, 368/285hp, 3-spd. automatic transmission. “To craft the finest automobiles in America” – This was the brief of Ford’s short-lived Continental Division. Luminaries such as Duesenberg, Cord and Peerless were long gone, and Ford’s not-insubstantial order was a direct shot at knocking Packard and…
2017 Chevrolet Homecoming June 1-3
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1962 327/340hp, 4-Speed, Frame-Up Restored
Roman Red w/Red interior, 327/340hp, 4-spd. The best of the last! That’s what the ’62 Corvette is often referred to. By ’62, first generation production was coming to an end after 11 years. The designers and engineers a the St Louis plant had taken the C1 about as far as…
Classic Cars of 2042: Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport
The original Corvette Grand Sports were purpose-built racing prototypes that looked like production models — only five were ever built. There have been a few other Grand Sport Corvettes through the years, and the latest version is the C7 Grand Sport. “The racing DNA of the original Grand Sport race…
Palos Verdes Concours D’Elegance – Sunday October 1st
The Palos Verdes Concours D’Elegance will be held on Sunday, October 1st at Zamperini Field in Torrance. This year’s theme is elegance and speed which will include a C1 and C2 Corvette class as well as integrating vintage aircraft at the exhibit. Please visit the website PVConcours.org for additional details….
Active Aero
It looks like future Corvettes may be getting Active Aerodynamics. The newest rumor is based off a patent filed way back in May of 2016, but just published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent shows a C7 Corvette sporting the system, but while General Motors used…
La Jolla Concours d’ Elegance | April 7th-9th, 2017
Kick Off Your World Class Concours Weekend In Style Rolls-Royce Contemporary Classic Cocktail PartyFriday, April 7th, at The LOT La Jolla Concours weekend kicks off on Friday, April 7th with an intimate gathering at the Rolls-Royce La Jolla Contemporary Classic Cocktail Party presented by The LOT. The boutique, high-end movie…
Featured Corvette of the Week: 2003 Chevrolet Corvette 50th Anniversary Convertible Anniversary Red
Anniversary Red w/Shale interior, 350/350hp, 6-spd manual transaxle. A 50th birthday is a big deal! So, when Corvette was coming up on that half-century mark, Chevrolet decided that something special was in order to celebrate. That celebration came in the form of the 50th Anniversary Edition. What you got was…
Beautiful 1995 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe Torch Red
Torch Red w/Black interior, 350/300hp, 6-spd manual transmission. The C4 entered its penultimate year of production in ’95. With 12 years of development, the 4th generation had gone from being a very advanced Corvette with some teething issues to the best Corvette built up to that point. car by the…