Month: August 2010

This midyear Corvette was parked alongside one of the turns at the famous Nurburgring in Germany and from the video it appears the car was stalled. Not a great place to be as a recent rainstorm had passed through leaving the track wet and several cars had trouble navigating the turn as the […]

Looks like the Chevy Corvette will be headed back to the UK starting in May 2011 according to several online sources. Chevrolet’s flagship sports car will be imported by Chevrolet UK and sold at select dealers alongside the Camaro.

Kroymans Corporation was handling the importation of Corvette, Cadillac and Hummer models but the […]

You’ll have a hard time convincing Porsche 911 diehards, but the German automaker’s entry-level sports cars – the convertible Boxster and its hardtop Cayman variant – are the outright better handlers.

This file photo made April 21, 2009, American flags fly outside General Motors world headquarters in Detroit.

In this file photo made Feb. 10, 2010, an auto show worker cleans the hood of a 2011 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 at the 2010 Chicago Auto Show in Chicago.

Some might say that all Corvettes are great.  I would not agree.  We have all seen a Corvette on occasion that has not been loved as it should have been.

On the other hand, I have seen some Corvettes that are so outstanding in their design, and that have been so well cared for, they are a cut or two (or three) above the rest.  You know you’ve seen them, too! They appear at such outstanding Corvette events at Bloomington Gold and Mid-America’s Corvette Funfest.

Now comes Motorbooks, publishing this month, for the first time ever, a beautiful coffee table-sized book, appropriately titled, Legendary Corvettes.  This is the book about the best of the best.  The Corvettes featured here were carefully selected from a list of memorable and influential Corvettes from the last almost sixty years.

You will want to secure a copy of this beautiful book to read, to enjoy, and to share.

 

These are the eighteen Corvettes, beautifully and artfully pictured and described:

• The original 1953 Corvette
• The 1956 SR Sebring Racer
• The 1957 XP-64 Super Sport
• The 1959 CERV I
• The 1960 Cunningham No. 3
• The 1960 Tasco Turquoise Convertible (Route 66 TV Show)
• The 1961 BM / SP
• The 1963 Sting Ray Z06
• The 1963 Lightweight Grand Sport Coupe
• The 1964 CERV II
• The 1966 L88 Coupe
• The 1973 "Corvette Summer" Movie Car
• The 1976 Greenwood "Spirit of LeMans"
• The 1978 Indianapolis Pace Car
• The Last (1981) St. Louis Corvette
• The 1988 Callaway "Sledgehammer"
• The 2001 C5-R LeMans Class Winner
• The Blue Devil 2009 ZR1

You can purchase your own copy of Legendary Corvettes wherever great books are sold.  It can also be found at www.Amazon.com and www.QBookshop.com.  Special thanks to Motorbooks for the opportunity to review this outstanding volume, authored by Randy Leffingwell and marvelously photographed by Dave Wendt.

Corvette Racing Returns to High-Speed Wisconsin Road Course

ELKHART LAKE, Wis. – Two events occurred in 1955 that would forever change the face of American road racing: Chevrolet introduced its new small-block V-8 engine, and the good citizens of Elkhart Lake, Wis., opened a new road racing circuit near their quiet rural town. The […]

Sport car that will include Brembo carbon ceramic brakes with specific dark gray metallic calipers, car brake that were introduced on the Chevrolet ZR1 Corvette before.

Last week, Karl-Friedrich Stracke, GM’s vice president of global vehicle engineering, set to rest rumors of a mid-engine next-generation Chevrolet Corvette.

Check out this great video of a Torch Red Corvette ZR1 driven hard by the very capable Juan Pablo Montoya at the Milford Proving Ground’s road course affectionately known as the Lutz Ring. Montoya currently drives a Chevy in NASCAR and won the checkered flag two weeks ago at Watkins Glen. […]