ORIGINAL 1963 Corvette Grand Sport Driving @ Simeone Museum by George Wintersteen
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- DtRockstar1 records an extremely rare and valuable 1963 Corvette Grand Sport driving around at the Simeone Museum by George Wintersteen, former owner and driver of this car. 1 of 5 made, this is one of the most desirable Corvettes.
Other cars that drove that day were the Shelby Daytona, Ford GT40, and Porsche 917 LH.
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one of my favorite places on earth... I love the simeone Museum... the 1964 Shelby Daytona is beyond words!
Nice video! I attended this demonstration day at the museum and it was great
great video, thank you!
Thank you for checking it out!
This Grand Sport Corvette chassis #002 debut race with George Wintersteen driving it, at Bridgehampton in 1966.
Worked on both Grand Sports Roger Penske bought from Chevy. Roger had a garage next to a watch shop in Newtown Square. Many midnight hours on Corvettes there. Started working for him in 1962 to 1969. Sometimes I listened to Rogers ideas & most times I didn't. Roger calls me Johnny Stingray to this day. I think I'm the only living member of Penske Racing in the 60's.
There is a Grand Sport, with VIN S08437X10008, for sleep on eBay $275,000
+ It is a real #1
Awesome stuff!
wow!
thats a real exotic!!
a piece of american art ! very beautiful car
Brutal Vette!!!
600 horses on a car like that.... Probably not the easiest car to handle :P
Just curious what engine the car had in it in 1963...Chevrolet didn't start manufacturing the BBC until 1965 and that was in the 396 C.I. form...1966 was the first year they manufactured the 427.
They were originally built with special 377 c.i. small blocks, stroked 327 engines with cross-ram intakes sporting 58mm Weber carburetors, but the teams that raced them over the years used all sorts of intake configurations, such as single carbs and dual fours. There were apparently several different cylinder heads used, at least two experimental aluminum heads and set of cast iron heads and they experimented with dual plug heads. They used GM built or Stahl headers wide side pipes. No one knows exactly which configuration they raced at each event with, but all of them used the M-22 Muncie "Rock Crusher" 4-speed close ratio transmission. The horsepower pumped out by the stroked small block was probably somewhere around 450, but with modern internals one of the replica engines dynos at more than 600 today. I believe two of the cars were later converted to big block "Mystery Motor" power and a few of these survived, one of them in the hands of Smokey Unick, which I believe was reunited with a Grand Sport in recent years. The Penske car ran a Traco 427 engine, similar to the L88s they built up for friends of mine back in the 1970s. There was little documentation because the racing effort was unofficial and because the factory used the Grand Sports for test beds, trying different configurations of heads, cams, intakes (at least two different cross-rams) and exhausts. The small blocks they used would have been significantly more powerful than the 289 Cobras of the day and the big blocks at least as powerful, if not more powerful than the Ford FE engines in the 427 Cobras. But of course the Cobra became a production car of sorts, while the Grand Sport was still born, so because only a few were produced, five or possibly six, I think some claimed, more of a prototype than a GT car. Two of the cars were converted from coupes to roadsters, which were not nearly as attractive in my opinion, but history is history. The Nassau races in the Bahamas were perhaps the high point for the Grand Sports. I think it was Car & Driver who did an article in the 1970s about a Grand Sport tucked away from Pennsylvania, an early indication that these old racing cars had some merit for their rarity.
The hoods were designed to allow all the air that built up under the car to escape, to keep the car from becoming a lifting wing. There was an engineer who came up with an air dam for the C-2 cars in the 1970s in order to keep the L88 cars like he owned (one of 20) glued to mother earth. Thumper Spoilers. Ron sold them out of his house in Torrance, California and Dick Guldstrand used to distribute them. The original 1967 L88 as I recall (Cal Club Champ) burnt up at Riverside Raceway. A wonderful piece of automotive history and its great to see some of these cars being exercised, enjoying the second life they deserve. We should all be that lucky.
Thanks for the info...I'm an old Ford guy but I did own a '65 vette roadster with the L-78 396 425 HP engine in the mid 70's for a few years....bought it in about '76 for $3995 and sold it 3 years later for $5295...sure wish I would have kept her but I needed a commute car and she got 9 mpg if you kept your foot out of the go pedal...haha
Yeah, the old muscle cars were awful as far as milage. I did some long trips in my GT350 at a good clip and there were times that I barely got to the next station across the desert. The Buick Grand Nationals were a nice throwback and with the V-6, Turbo and fuel injection, the milage wasn't bad. I managed in the mid-20s on trips at reasonable speeds and 18 or so at higher speeds. The big block cars were real gas guzzlers, I had a few of those with 389s, 400s, 440s and 455s. Lots of fun, but now with fuel injection and 5 and 6 speed transmissions (and more), you can have your cake and eat it to. I had a GTO with a four speed and 4.33s, which was the worst highway car possible, you always felt like you should reach for another gear, but there were only four.
its a shame they cut up two of them to make convertibles- all five we originally coupes
Kind of silly like watching an Olympic runner play musical chairs...
i am wrong?
DAT GROWL.
I want one so badly. Now I just have to come up with a few million dollars. Would much rather have a car like this than a Bugatti Veyron. DH movie stars and Sports stars like Tom Cruise and Tom Brady buy Veyron's. I think any vintage race car is much cooler. Better sounding too.
600HP in a 2000lb car, that's stupid fast.
You've got that right. It has got to be the scariest car ever, especially since it has no roof or windshield.
DtRockstar1
And 1960's suspension.
DtRockstar1 Never say something is "xxxx ever...."
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also, Porsche 917/30....
It's not original