I used to not like these replicas but after learning how much time and effort is put into making them as accurate to a modern day recreation as possible, I have to respect them.
And considering they can often perform better than the original says something too. At the end of the day, the driving engagement and experience is what matters the most with a car (and I think this is especially prevalent when an original cannot be driven at all.)
You can tell this is one of those cars thats dialed in all around to be perfectly balanced as a car, and it's an absolute joy to drive regardless of what kind of drive you want to have at that moment. Edit: Something about leather strap(s) and a buckle instead of hood pins or other components elsewhere just adds a lot for me. It feels hand made with care when there's details like that.
Yeah, the stance is a little wonky but I can overlook that when considering the entire package. This car doesn't need a stereo. It makes it'ss own music. Excellent video, brother.
Ain't nothin' wrong with the look of that stance, if ya know why it's that way. Because the suspension set-up including that stance is perfect for wide-open throttle, whether it be a dig/launch off the line at the drag strip or coming off a turn & laying into it for a long high-speed straight-away, the Corvette squat is damned hard to beat.
I don't care what anyone says, absolutely nothing sounds as killer as a well-built, well-tuned, normally aspirated hi-hp V8. And they are proven to run so consistently strong. ........especially during a long run or race.
If i had the bucks up and drive it daily , yes i would have music in it. Not hard to turn it off if you are enjoying the engines music at that moment. Better to have it and not need it than needing it and not having it. Beautiful car and sound this one has.
best of both worlds with this kit car ,you can go on the road and rip it up and slap on a set of all terrain tyres and go off road ,plenty ground clearance
That’s a gorgeous car. 500 to the tire in a car that will carve canyons the way that one will is way more than enough. People don’t realize how fast the old 2 liter European cars were on a curvy road or a tight road course.
Only thing its missing is a racy idle. Way too smooth for me given what the car is trying to be. Great power level though...dont like the way most high dyno # cars drive
What a beautiful all-around, well sorted and beautiful ripper!!! Just docile enough for the street and enough modern amenities to make for a wonderful day of cruising!!! Hawk-Tuah!!!
They did an amazing job building that car. Classic vintage, with just the right modern tricks to make that car an everyday/track driver. I would never want to stop driving that car. I could get in, gas it up, have a pocket full of cash and being that I live in Los Angeles, I could jump on either the beginning of the 10 Freeway in Santa Monica and drive to Florida, or at that same spot Pacific Coast Highway also is where the 10 starts its Eastbound run but PCH goes either North or South along the California coast and I'd end up in Baja California, Mexico, in about 2½ hours or the other direction I'd end up at the Oregon State line in about 14 hours. I'd be happy either way.
Fav drive late 80s was go north on pch, go up to Buellton to Andersens (closed now)...in tfhe morning where its a little overcast...then back to Zuma, hit the waves then Topanga back to Chatsworth.
@@gordocarbo --- I've made that drive hundreds of times, no exaggeration. Sometimes, coast up and then back or 101 up and coast back or coast up to Sam Marcos Pass through the mountains. Besides growing up a mile from the beach in LA near LAX, and surfing upband down the coast, my dad lived in Lompoc for a couple of years and my best friends family had moved to Santa Maria when we were in Jr high so I would be driving up there all the time. Then I moved to the Bay Area for 17 yrs and I would take 101 once in a while but usually the 5 because it was faster. Back in the day, in the mid late 1980s sometimes myself and a buddy or two would be bored on a Friday or Saturday night and we would get a bottle of Jack and a bottle of Coke some ice and cups as well as some weed and maybe some other stuff to keep us awake and we'd just get in the car and drive up PCH partying until we ran out of booze or needed gas usually Ventura or Oxnard or sometimes Rincon Carpenteria, we didn't like getting to Santa Barbara that was when the freeway ended and you were on the main street in town and always too much traffic and too many cops. Those were the days.
Yep, the politicians have been destroying everything and letting the people who have no class and no respect for themselves or anyone else go unpunished for trashing everything and all the crime. I was no angel and still not but being someone who breaks some laws to make some money by selling weed and other things isn't the same as robbing people and businesses, carjacking, turning your neighborhood into war zones with burnt up cars and garbage all over. It is sad to see our neighborhoods going to shit. I've watched the beaches where I grew up next to LAX go from safe and clean you could walk at night to not being able to go to the state beach where there are fire pits because you'll be putting your life on the line because the gangsters and fools that go there.
Beatifull head lights dan! That última its the most beatifull a has ever seen... Also with the most apropiate engine for sure... Good luck whith that gearbox! Congrats for the project... Ill miss it when it ends!
I saw one of these in sunny Scottsdale Arizona, going down the road, it was during the time Barrett Jackson was having their auction. It was pretty cool.
I've never been much of a follower but I have to agree with you Shaun. I would also prefer changing the stance of the car to get rid of that squat in the back. In the original race footage at 1:38 min. of your video the Vette didn't have that squat going through the corners.
This car has a softer composite rear spring for road driving. It also helps the car really hook up. You can order whatever stiffness you want in the composite rear spring.
Even regular production Corvettes were 4 wheel disc, standard, by 1965. You could get a '65 with drums, but it was only with a delete option for discs, and then only while the factory had the drum set ups on hand.
Love all your stuff and showcasing these amazing, functional pieces of art and horsepower. That rear suspension and rearend is wild…is that period correct for that whole rear end setup?
You're usually nice when it comes to driving the cars. I could tell you couldn't resist but to put your foot down on this one. You got on it a little bit. I would have too. That's a nice Corvette. My favorite part was when you said "God, I hate this car because I'm starting to fall in love with it!" Great presentation! I love when you do Corvettes! 👍
Yup...can drive a car hard somewhat without "abusing" it. Torque number is perfect for this car weight. Enough to get the adrenalin pumpin but not too much
I would love to see a REAL Grand Sport replica with a period correct engine package, since the LS platform wasn't even thought of yet. The engines don't sound the same because the firing orders and engine architecture are different. If this builder is truly talented, build a period correct engine and listen to the difference. Because a 377 cubic inch Small Block Chevy sounds WAY BETTER than a fuel injected LS.
It wouldn't be SUPERFORMANCE car without a small pedal box!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣At least this one looks a little bit bigger than the tiny Cobra! I don't think I'd ever build another Cobra, but I'd build one of these! And I'm Ford guy!
Very nice! Last year at a Silicon Valley C&C I got to see a real GS, the Winters sidedraft Weber intake was the giveaway (377ci gen1 sbc sounded killer)
Damn, Shawn - been waching your stuff for a long time, and I gotta say from one Car Guy to another - You, Sir...are as cool as the other side of the pillow.
I see the newest Ruffian Mustang in the Superformance 'showroom'. For sale? I also saw a Superformance Corvette in the Ruffian shop. Special Ruffian Superformance Corvette coming?
You should do (and start including) a episode of all the street interactions of normal people in traffic geeking/commenting on you guys while making these video's.
🤣🤣🤣🤣Your face says it all!!!! It would be perfect to take some shots with that year on a circuit, I think that there its qualities could be shown more, greetings!
I like the style and look at that car and I know the one guy commented on it wrapped because you do not want to cut up a 63 Corvette body shell and make it look like that that would be blast for me 63 has a beautiful body I would never cut up original so a shell with the materials that we have today will be awesome…👍🤔
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I used to not like these replicas but after learning how much time and effort is put into making them as accurate to a modern day recreation as possible, I have to respect them.
Yeah I like to look at it like it’s more of a continuation rather than a cheap replica.
@@AutotopiaLA 100%
and one you can now drive instead of keeping as a museum piece
And considering they can often perform better than the original says something too. At the end of the day, the driving engagement and experience is what matters the most with a car (and I think this is especially prevalent when an original cannot be driven at all.)
@@PapaTroll86 If they didn't out-perform a car from the 60's would be pretty sad. Materials science and engineering have changed a lot since then.
The C2’s will always be the most iconic Corvette gen.
C2s are stunning but I dont know what they did here. They manage to make it ugly.
@@mura0 They managed to make it look like an original Grand Sport Corvette from 1963. Seems like you don’t know about that car.
Agree 100% 🏁
LOVE that V couldn't help but add in information lol. Love it when builders can just go off!
You can tell this is one of those cars thats dialed in all around to be perfectly balanced as a car, and it's an absolute joy to drive regardless of what kind of drive you want to have at that moment.
Edit: Something about leather strap(s) and a buckle instead of hood pins or other components elsewhere just adds a lot for me. It feels hand made with care when there's details like that.
Love that Vlado got some air time on this one! He does around 100 installs on Superformance cars every year and does some amazing builds!
I'm not a Chevy or Vette fan, but those Superformance Vettes are absolutely beautiful ❤️ and bad ass.
They make some awesome cars no doubt. Never cared for kit cars but these are a couple steps above. Not sure if I could choose one model!
Yeah, the stance is a little wonky but I can overlook that when considering the entire package. This car doesn't need a stereo. It makes it'ss own music. Excellent video, brother.
I love it. Too many people love that “down in the weeds” stance these days. IMHO
I agree with you about the stereo, but that stance is pretty much exactly what the original grand sports sat like from memory.
@@corriegillett2536 I hear ya on the original stance and I'm sure you're right. I'm just not a fan even though it likely serves a purpose.
@@richardtibbetts574 yeah, not a fan of that style either. Just think the nose needs to come down a tad.
Ain't nothin' wrong with the look of that stance, if ya know why it's that way. Because the suspension set-up including that stance is perfect for wide-open throttle, whether it be a dig/launch off the line at the drag strip or coming off a turn & laying into it for a long high-speed straight-away, the Corvette squat is damned hard to beat.
That color blue with the orange stripe is insane and top quality paint job!
I don't care what anyone says, absolutely nothing sounds as killer as a well-built, well-tuned, normally aspirated hi-hp V8. And they are proven to run so consistently strong. ........especially during a long run or race.
My favorite vintage race car of all time.
What a gorgeous Vette.
Truly stunning.
my grandfather worked for gm building corvettes in stl. This thing just warms my heart.
Man that color is beautiful
I’d love another GT40 video with Superformance!!! They make such killer cars
We’ll shoot one soon!
Are they still 192,000 ? That's what they were 3yrs ago. The sound of those pipes gives me goosebumps. Thanks dude, TCB
$299 now
@@ACEX2 $299.95
@@ACEX2 Cant fathom having that kind of money to spend.
Kills me most working stiffs could never afford one.
The engine looks as flash as a gold and diamond watch..Beautiful Corvette
If i had the bucks up and drive it daily , yes i would have music in it. Not hard to turn it off if you are enjoying the engines music at that moment. Better to have it and not need it than needing it and not having it. Beautiful car and sound this one has.
Only thing is could you even hear it over the side pipes. Around town Im guessing not too bad
I am seriously enjoying this channel on a daily basis, with my morning coffee and lunch... And dinner and a bag of popcorn and a nice spliff at night!
It looks so freaking cool Jesus !! - kind of blend of a Baja uplifted front + performance car setup - insane !!
Calling it a kit car would be an insult
🤤 ❤️
I'm so glad I found this channel. You always have the most interesting cars
Finally. He said "Up To Speed" and I am here for it.
grand sports have always been top tier💪🏾💯
There are replicas, and there are replicas done right. This GS clone is a killer car. Nice one.
V was so articulate about the engine. Glorious car
best of both worlds with this kit car ,you can go on the road and rip it up and slap on a set of all terrain tyres and go off road ,plenty ground clearance
Yup, I could see this almost...as a Baja 500 or rallye car.
That’s a gorgeous car. 500 to the tire in a car that will carve canyons the way that one will is way more than enough. People don’t realize how fast the old 2 liter European cars were on a curvy road or a tight road course.
With some of them weighing in at 1800 lbs didnt need much power
That is one sweet street car. Nice and clean, not over powered, and would be hassle free to drive. I can get on board with that.
It really was a lot better than the ones with the bigger horsepower motors. Much more enjoyable to drive
@@AutotopiaLA You are so lucky to be able to drive and get rides in such amazing cars. Except Fords, lol stay away from Fords.
Only thing its missing is a racy idle. Way too smooth for me given what the car is trying to be. Great power level though...dont like the way most high dyno # cars drive
For some reason the stance on this car doesn’t bother me in the least! It’s gorgeous as is. Thanks for sharing …
Wonder what some white steelies on this would look like.
What a beautiful all-around, well sorted and beautiful ripper!!! Just docile enough for the street and enough modern amenities to make for a wonderful day of cruising!!! Hawk-Tuah!!!
Got to be the coolest vintage muscle car out there. Well my fav anyway.
Cheers Shawn and Superformance 🤙🏼
Drive More !!
They did an amazing job building that car. Classic vintage, with just the right modern tricks to make that car an everyday/track driver.
I would never want to stop driving that car. I could get in, gas it up, have a pocket full of cash and being that I live in Los Angeles, I could jump on either the beginning of the 10 Freeway in Santa Monica and drive to Florida, or at that same spot Pacific Coast Highway also is where the 10 starts its Eastbound run but PCH goes either North or South along the California coast and I'd end up in Baja California, Mexico, in about 2½ hours or the other direction I'd end up at the Oregon State line in about 14 hours. I'd be happy either way.
Fav drive late 80s was go north on pch, go up to Buellton to Andersens (closed now)...in tfhe morning where its a little overcast...then back to Zuma, hit the waves then Topanga back to Chatsworth.
@@gordocarbo --- I've made that drive hundreds of times, no exaggeration. Sometimes, coast up and then back or 101 up and coast back or coast up to Sam Marcos Pass through the mountains. Besides growing up a mile from the beach in LA near LAX, and surfing upband down the coast, my dad lived in Lompoc for a couple of years and my best friends family had moved to Santa Maria when we were in Jr high so I would be driving up there all the time. Then I moved to the Bay Area for 17 yrs and I would take 101 once in a while but usually the 5 because it was faster.
Back in the day, in the mid late 1980s sometimes myself and a buddy or two would be bored on a Friday or Saturday night and we would get a bottle of Jack and a bottle of Coke some ice and cups as well as some weed and maybe some other stuff to keep us awake and we'd just get in the car and drive up PCH partying until we ran out of booze or needed gas usually Ventura or Oxnard or sometimes Rincon Carpenteria, we didn't like getting to Santa Barbara that was when the freeway ended and you were on the main street in town and always too much traffic and too many cops.
Those were the days.
@@13_13k Wow, carbon copy of the same life I led lol.
Good memories for sure. Ventura county in so many areas by the beach has become a dump its sad
Yep, the politicians have been destroying everything and letting the people who have no class and no respect for themselves or anyone else go unpunished for trashing everything and all the crime.
I was no angel and still not but being someone who breaks some laws to make some money by selling weed and other things isn't the same as robbing people and businesses, carjacking, turning your neighborhood into war zones with burnt up cars and garbage all over.
It is sad to see our neighborhoods going to shit. I've watched the beaches where I grew up next to LAX go from safe and clean you could walk at night to not being able to go to the state beach where there are fire pits because you'll be putting your life on the line because the gangsters and fools that go there.
The C2 Grand Sport has always been my dream car it was love at first site.
Just watching in hot springs SD in the parking lot in the shadows of the hills, soft drink in hand and a lil something to smoke on.....life is GRAND😏
Enjoy brotha!
just dont open the mail lol
From the colour to the interior and the motor and the tone is wicked)
Seriously such a wicked spec on this one!
@@AutotopiaLA 💯% bro)
Love the Beavis and Butthead giggles at 15:52mins 😄😄🤣🤣👍
Love the start of this video... music to my ears
Beatifull head lights dan! That última its the most beatifull a has ever seen... Also with the most apropiate engine for sure... Good luck whith that gearbox! Congrats for the project... Ill miss it when it ends!
I saw one of these in sunny Scottsdale Arizona, going down the road, it was during the time Barrett Jackson was having their auction. It was pretty cool.
Dang it squats hard on acceleration! Sweet car. 17:11 is such an epic shot, rewatched like 5 times.
OMG I am in love!
V was funny AF 😂
Car is rad. V is a gem.
THAT'S SO FKIN BEAUTIFUL! and badass
Baddddddd azz ride man thanks shawn 🙏
Always loved that particular vehicle. Really wanted to see you get on it hard in 2nd gear and stay on it to redline… 🆙
I've never been much of a follower but I have to agree with you Shaun. I would also prefer changing the stance of the car to get rid of that squat in the back.
In the original race footage at 1:38 min. of your video the Vette didn't have that squat going through the corners.
This car has a softer composite rear spring for road driving. It also helps the car really hook up. You can order whatever stiffness you want in the composite rear spring.
@@supercarsandsuperfoods5779 Agree...too much squat is hard on parts on these cars. Prefer minimal over plenty
These things are so cool! Awesome car.
Even regular production Corvettes were 4 wheel disc, standard, by 1965. You could get a '65 with drums, but it was only with a delete option for discs, and then only while the factory had the drum set ups on hand.
Front discs were a luxury in 65 but 4 wheel guys musta raved about
@@gordocarbo discs were standard, not an option, in 1965. The option was the disc *delete*
Love all your stuff and showcasing these amazing, functional pieces of art and horsepower. That rear suspension and rearend is wild…is that period correct for that whole rear end setup?
Love it, sounds beautiful ❤️
Awesome! It really does…
Badass. Love it.
You're usually nice when it comes to driving the cars. I could tell you couldn't resist but to put your foot down on this one. You got on it a little bit. I would have too. That's a nice Corvette. My favorite part was when you said "God, I hate this car because I'm starting to fall in love with it!" Great presentation! I love when you do Corvettes! 👍
Yup...can drive a car hard somewhat without "abusing" it.
Torque number is perfect for this car weight. Enough to get the adrenalin pumpin but not too much
It's absolutely beautiful car in spite of the low rear end
That is a beautiful car
Sean one of your best
Sean thanks again!
Dream Ride
I'd drive one of these GS replicas over a real Ferrari or Lambo all day everyday. I would not lower it.
They're beautiful.
Wow!!!❤❤❤❤❤
Perfection. 🤤
_какие же красивые у вас автомобили!_
thats sick
Great engine and simple great interior. Greetings
You’re welcome.
Signed, Kentucky
Yes
Amazing car!!!
Very cool car
Nice car fo' sho'.
Perfekt
I would love to see a REAL Grand Sport replica with a period correct engine package, since the LS platform wasn't even thought of yet. The engines don't sound the same because the firing orders and engine architecture are different. If this builder is truly talented, build a period correct engine and listen to the difference. Because a 377 cubic inch Small Block Chevy sounds WAY BETTER than a fuel injected LS.
It wouldn't be SUPERFORMANCE car without a small pedal box!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣At least this one looks a little bit bigger than the tiny Cobra!
I don't think I'd ever build another Cobra, but I'd build one of these! And I'm Ford guy!
Nice!
Very nice! Last year at a Silicon Valley C&C I got to see a real GS, the Winters sidedraft Weber intake was the giveaway (377ci gen1 sbc sounded killer)
That’s awesome !
I never thought I'd get to see one in person!
With builds like this I can't believe they made an electric cobra
This is bad ass
It's a great video.
My favorite car
My favourite Vette generation is the C2, 1963-67 Stingray, but in the coupe.😮
Nice vette 👍👍👍👍
Thanks 👍
wow estos son los coches que me agradan
Damn, Shawn - been waching your stuff for a long time, and I gotta say from one Car Guy to another - You, Sir...are as cool as the other side of the pillow.
I mean this when i say it...i want literally every car i own to sound like this....
You guys got insurance? LOl love this guy
I see the newest Ruffian Mustang in the Superformance 'showroom'. For sale? I also saw a Superformance Corvette in the Ruffian shop. Special Ruffian Superformance Corvette coming?
Yes the Ruffian FIA is here and for sale. And yes Chris is building a Ruffian GS, it’s going to be wicked!
You should do (and start including) a episode of all the street interactions of normal people in traffic geeking/commenting on you guys while making these video's.
I've always wondered how much those backwards pontoon fender flares slow cars down.
🤣🤣🤣🤣Your face says it all!!!! It would be perfect to take some shots with that year on a circuit, I think that there its qualities could be shown more, greetings!
The original Gran Sport was 1995 pounds and 550 hp. They were built without GM authorization. Such a cool story.
550hp 327 and 1995 lbs got a source for that info?
Second view is wild
So Geil liebe Grüße aus Bavaria
Nice..❤️👍👍
SO COOL CHEERS.
Would love to hear about the difference in stability and handeling if a set of pilot sport 4s tires were put on.
Same size? Those Avons make some awful good rubber for racing. Pricy too
Badass ride! I prefer single color. Guards Red would destroy my already tatered driving record!
Had 2 bright red cars, 1 a vette. Hated it...too loud and fem for me.
I like the style and look at that car and I know the one guy commented on it wrapped because you do not want to cut up a 63 Corvette body shell and make it look like that that would be blast for me 63 has a beautiful body I would never cut up original so a shell with the materials that we have today will be awesome…👍🤔
Id never wrap a glass body. Good wrap would be super tough to remove without damaging the body
Es hermoso cuánto costará?
Bad ass car....check out the Big Red C2 Corvette.
Dope vid as usual Shaun. Keep them fucking coming🤟🏾🔥
What material is the body made from, fiberglass, carbon fiber or steel?
Four layers of hand laid glass with two layers of core mat underneath.