Although it bore almost no relationship to the road-going car, the Corvette GTP of 1984-1988 certainly saw a lot of racing and bore the Corvette name with pride. The GTP Corvette was borne in an effo...
Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum, except where noted. Of the three cars in those famous June 1953 photographs of the first Corvettes coming off the Flint, Michigan, assembly line, only one st...
2019 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport convertible. Photo by author. Change is coming to the world of the Corvette: On July 18, the world will watch slack-jawed as a new, mid-engined Corvette appears. I...
The camouflaged next-generation Chevrolet Corvette in New York City on April 11. Photo by Jennifer Altman for Chevrolet. It’s been, quite possibly, the worst-kept secret in General Motors’ history. F...
The camouflaged next-generation Chevrolet Corvette in New York City on April 11. Photo by Jennifer Altman for Chevrolet. It’s been, quite possibly, the worst-kept secret in General Motors’ history. F...
Astronaut Alan Shepard (center) accepts the keys to a custom 1962 Corvette, gifted to him by Chevrolet General Manager Ed Cole (right) and GM Styling President Bill Mitchell. Photo courtesy General M...
Bruce Meyer in his 1957 Ferrari 625/250 Testarossa. Photos courtesy Petersen Automotive Museum. Bruce Meyer, a founding father of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California, is the car...
The biggest news of the year happened away from the track. In October 1973, Saudi Arabia — controlled by OPEC — organized an oil embargo in retaliation for United States support of Israel during the ...
The opening lap of the SVRA Charity Pro-Am race at VIR in 2018. Still image from video below. In 2014, the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) debuted the Indy Legends Pro-Am race, pairing am...
Photos courtesy National Corvette Museum. To many Corvette owners, the idea, let alone the existence, of a Corvette driven by its front wheels likely amounts to blasphemy. To John Jacobi, it was just...
Photos courtesy Kevin Mackay. The years-long ownership dispute over the last unrestored Briggs Cunningham Le Mans Corvette — a car that could be worth millions — may soon come to an end now that a ju...
1965 Chevrolet Corvette 396 Turbo-Jet V-8. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. For a brief moment, the 425-horsepower Mark IV 396-cu.in. V-8 was top dog of available Corvette engines, producing higher o...
The Corvette Styling Cars driven by Harley Earl (L) and Bill Mitchell. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions. Harley Earl and Bill Mitchell set the pace for design at General Motors for a...
Images courtesy Scott Kennebeck. Scott Kennebeck thought his big-block powered 1974 Chevrolet Corvette was safe. It was kept in a locked trailer on a storage lot located off of Route 120 in McHenry, ...
Most stories of electric conversions on older cars stop right after the test and tune phase. Corbin Dunn, however, has kept us current (geddit?) on his Beetle EV conversion through the years. ( via )...
This week, we bring you an historic photo that we purposely didn’t clean up or trim the print frame edges off of. Why? Because the date stamped on the white border just says it all: “FEB 73.” If you ...
Not the Corvette in question. Photo courtesy Barrett-Jackson. A Florida man who believes the VIN of his car has been copied successfully sued Saskatchewan Government Insurance to reveal the identity ...
1970 Plymouth Superbird. Photos courtesy Owls Head Transportation Museum. According to the latest NADA guide, high retail for a 1970 Plymouth Superbird built with the U-code engine (a 440 topped by a...
A 1960 Chevrolet Corvette, one of the cars on the National Corvette Museum’s wish list. Photo courtesy Chevrolet. The National Corvette Museum (NCM), located in Bowling Green, Kentucky, strives to te...
1966 Shelby G.T. 350H; all images by the author. It’s presale estimate was set at $150,000 – $200,000. Hemmings Muscle Machines magazine print cycles have dictated that we bid farewell to the 2018 Sc...
It’s a good bet that the 1921 Ballot straight-eight that John Ballard Engineering recently assembled for a customer may be the last time anybody will take on such a project. Fortunately, Ballard docu...
All images courtesy of General Motors Now produced for more than 65 years, Chevrolet’s Corvette has not only firmly cemented its place as “America’s sports car,” it has also earned enough of a legacy...
Images courtesy National Corvette Museum. The National Corvette Museum (NCM) and the associated NCM Motorsports Park, both in Bowling Green, Kentucky, have seen their share of adversity in recent yea...
Images courtesy National Corvette Museum. The National Corvette Museum (NCM) and the associated NCM Motorsports Park, both in Bowling Green, Kentucky, have seen their share of adversity in recent yea...
1969 Chevrolet Corvette L88, raced at Le Mans, Sebring, and Daytona. Photo by Mike McNessor. Built for three years, from 1967-’69, Chevy’s L-88 Corvette was a race car that, coincidentally, could als...