Driven to Win The Petersen Automotive Museum’s newest exhibit, “Driven to Win: The Automobile in Competition,” is now open in...
While generally held in September (season finale), this year’s INDYCAR Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey was moved to June. With...
The introduction of the Sting Ray in 1963 sent shockwaves through the North American sports car market, causing a sensation that far surpassed expectations. The overwhelming success of the model prompted the St Louis factory to implement a second shift, yet the demand for these cars remained insatiable. Manufactured under...
The Cheetah was meant to be a Cobra-killer. It was Corvette powered, with a custom-designed chassis and suspension. Watch the...
The L88 was a special option package developed under the direction of Zora Arkus-Duntov, director of GM’s performance division. First introduced in 1967, the L88 Corvette featured a...
The first Z06 was actually an option package first offered with the 1963 Corvette. The package was developed by Corvette’s legendary lead engineer and racing advocate Z0ra Arkus-Duntov. The Z06 option was designed to allow consumers to bolster the 1963 “Split-Window” Corvettes performance and handling capabilities for use on the race track. While...
One of the Petersen Automotive Museum’s latest exhibits, “Corvettes in Competition: Racing America’s Sports Car,” continues to create quite a...
The Shelby 427 Cobra’s sustained dominance on the racetrack forced Chevrolet engineers to respond with a 427-cubic-inch engine for the...
The ninth show will be the biggest yet Galpin Motors will host the San Fernando Valley’s biggest auto show on Sunday, October 15, at the 9th Annual Galpin Car Show. This year’s event, the first since 2019, will showcase nearly 1,000 cars across nine locations on Roscoe Blvd. in the...
The 1963 Corvette Sting Ray holds a special place in automotive history as it ushered in the second generation of...
A young Art Center College of Design student, named Peter Elbert Brock, became the youngest designer ever hired by Bill...
During the 1970s, John Greenwood’s “Stars and Stripes” Corvettes showcased Chevrolet’s growing dominance in international racing, keeping the American Sports Car at the forefront. While known for his extravagant “Greenwood Wide-Body” Corvettes, Greenwood was also a skilled engine builder and a dedicated supporter of American racing. His accomplishments included back-to-back...
The Sledgehammer, a modified 1988 Chevrolet Corvette, was the brainchild of renowned Corvette specialist Reeves Callaway. Seeking to create a...
The Corvette C7.R was conceived, designed and constructed by Pratt & Miller Engineering based on the C7 Corvette Stingray developed by Chevrolet. It was developed in 2013 as...
The L88 was a special option package developed under the direction of Zora Arkus-Duntov, director of GM’s performance division. First introduced in 1967, the L88 Corvette featured a highly modified version of Chevy’s 427-cubic-inch V-8 engine. Although this engine received a factory horsepower rating of 435, actual engine output was somewhere between 540 and 580 horsepower, giving the “stock” L88 enough...
Checkout this intense battle between two Chevy Camaros as they battle for the Gordon Spice Trophy at Goodwood....
When it was unveiled, the 2023 C8 Corvette Z06 took the world by storm and it was quickly compared to...
The Corvette Rondine concept was built by Pinanfarina and introduced at the 1963 Paris Motor Show. The car started life as a 1963 split-window Corvette, which is all the more unusual because Chevrolet introduced the split-window coupe at the same time that Pinanfarina was introducing a custom-built Corvette based on...
Competing as a production-based sports car, the new C5-R Corvette was developed to compete as a GTS-class race car that...
In 1956, Chevrolet took desperate measures and saved the model’s future by presenting an armada of motorsports variants in 1956....
This past weekend I made the annual pilgrimage to the Long Beach Grand Prix. This year was the event’s 48th running…whew!… that realization hit kind of hard when it dawned on me that this was the 48th Long Beach Grand Prix that I’ve attended! The inaugural Long Beach Grand Prix,...
Rob Dahm, an automotive YouTuber and Mazda enthusiast, meets up with Llyod Koehler, the owner of a vibrant yellow 1961...
The COPO Camaro was created in 1969 by two Chevrolet dealers who wanted to install engines larger than 400 cubic...
1965 Corvette XP-819 In 1965, famed General Motors designer Larry Shinoda designed a one-off concept car, the XP-819, that tested the concept of a rear-engined (not mid-engined) Corvette. Built under Frank Winchell’s Chevrolet Research and Development group, the XP-819 featured a reverse rotation, marine 327-cu.in V-8 hung out the back...
Bill Thomas had one goal in mind when he designed and produced the Cheetah: beat the Ford Cobra. With Chevrolet...
The 1969 ZL-1 Corvette came equipped with an entirely new big-block engine option that produced more horsepower than any Corvette that had come before it. Any Corvette, when ordered with RPO ZL1, came fitted with an all-aluminum 427 C.I. engine that featured a dry-sump oil system and which weight approximately...
The folks at RM Sotheby’s recently auctioned one of only two 1969 ZL-1 Corvettes ever made and it sold for...
Chevrolet recently debuted the new Corvette Z06 GT3.R racecar, a year before it makes its competition debut at the 2024...
701 vehicles crossed the block in the recently concluded Mecum Kansas City 2022 where the event reached an overall sales of $14.9 million with a 74% sell-through rate. Out of the top 10 highest sales during the event, 6 of them were practically new, highly desirable cars with low mileage....
