First things first, Lister Corvettes are not really Corvettes at all. The name came from the late 1950’s when the Lister chassis started making their way to US shores from Europe and racers began bolting in hot small block engines from Chevy Corvettes. This in-car video shows a 1958 Lister Corvette that is packing a 600hp small block. It’s awesome and shows that driver Ed Dellis has some skills to keep it on the track!
Dellis’s car is what’s known as a “Beck Lister” because it is not one of the eight or nine original Lister Corvettes from 1958. Instead, his car is visually identical to the early cars but has a ‘glass body and C4 Corvette suspension components. Charles Beck, a former competitor in the Can-Am series made a run of these more modern cars in the late 1990s and Dellis is at the helm of that type car in the video.
It should be noted that Dellis is not just some guy who plunked down the money and decided to build a wild and bad ass road racing machine. Ed Dellis is known around many racing circuits like NASCAR, IndyCar, Formula One, ALMS, and more as “the steering wheel guy”. Why? Because he is the inventor and designer of custom molded racing steering wheels for the greatest drivers in the world. He’s a mult-time SCCA national champion, he’s been a driving instructor for both the Skip Barber school and Bobby Rahal’s school, he’s an engineer who is regularly published writing tech stories for light reading publications like the SAE magazine, and he may fight crime in his spare time. This is a car that Dellis loves to drive and has competed with at event like One Lap of America and others. We think that is an important thing to note because lots of time cars like this simply belong to guys with too much money, not enough knowledge, and way too little skill. We’re happy to report that Ed Dellis ain’t that guy. As you’ll see in this video, he’s a mad man driving son of a gun!
Crank up the speakers, press play and really pay attention for two minutes. Ed Dellis sideways more often than straight!
The thing I like about those cars is that you CAN’T put a big tire on it. They’re self limiting in that respect. I don’t even know if you could squeeze a 9″ wide tire under it!
dirt trackin’!!
Awesome video, decidedly more HORSEPOWER then tire, looked like BIG FUN!!!
Oversteer isn’t the fastest way around a race track, but it’s definitely the most entertaining! Given the bucking bull behaviour of that beast I’d probably like to have some padding on that cage brace bar!