For the most part, we’re guilty of writing off the Chevrolet Corvette as a mid-life play thing, a car you buy when you want to feel youthful again. It’s not that the stereotype isn’t true, but it’s that the Corvette is so much more than just a trinket. It has been the sports car that America could send abroad to the world and compete with. It’s mentioned in the same breath as GT-40 and Viper as one of the successful and iconic American machines that has taken the course at LeMans and other tracks and won. From the moment the Crossed Flags come into view on the snout until the cacophony of V8 shriek starts to fade with the taillights, the Corvette has been the racing machine of the country, the car that might as well idle “The Star-Spangled Banner” instead of the burble of a V8. There is no denying it, there is no disrespecting it…the Corvette has earned it’s keep among the racing elite.
Whether you prefer the simplicity and straightforwardness of the 1960 C1 coupe that was one of three cars sent to France to compete that year or you love the all-out assault of the C6.R car, a machine caught somewhere between a standard Corvette and a fully-gutted silhouette racer, either car stands as General Motors’ challenge to the world: race me. Petrolicious captured these two in their gorgeous way…check it out!
