A few have noted my road race Corvette in other posts, here are a few more details.

It started life as a 1965 roadster.  It was a race car (rolling chassis) when I bought it, but it still had complete factory body as the basis. I believe it originally was a Fuelie since there was a factory duct on the drivers side of the radiator, you can see in this picture:

 

FI was of course long gone as was serial number (no title just a bill of sale and the rollbar number). It had factory frame (strengthened in key areas), factory suspension (rear control arms modified for tire clearance, solid bushings, Daytona springs), J-56 dual-pin brakes front and rear, and of course close-ratio Muncie 4-speed with Hurst Competition Plus shifter. I had 2 diffs (4.11 and 3.70) that I switched depending on track length (there was an access hole cut in the 'trunk' floor pan for quick access to the big bolts that held it to the frame).

It had a 22-gallon fuel cell, heim joint suspension links for easier adjustment, 4 sizes front roll bars to fine tune handling, a wonderfully comfortable Corbeau seat, interior door panels made out of the thin sheet metal newspapers used to use for printing pages back then, Jones mechanical tach, Thumper Spoliers flares and air dam, and of course those great Hooker headers. Here's the fuel cell when I was rebuilding it (believe it or not, the liner rotted from race fuel and started to leak at a race).



The motor would be tame by today's standards - 4-bolt .030 over, Chevy forged crank cross-drilled and polished, Chevy 'pink' rods, 11:1 forged pistons, balanced, Competition Cams .532" IN/.555"OUT lift, 285 IN/295 OUT duration @ .050, 106 lobe cener. Had to run straigh-plug factory heads, of course used the 2.02 valves. LT-1 intake manifold and Holley 800 cfm double pumper with 50cc secondary squirters.

Here's the first motor we build, you can see roller rockers were legal so we used Crane gold, and of course the lifter valley etc. was ground smooth and painted with Glyptol:



I did add Avaiad dry sump with complete Aeroquip SS braided lines (they were pricey even back then), 14 quarts total - the only 'sponsor' I ever had was Kendall, they provided me free oil and lubricants which sure was handy since I changed oil after every race 



That was about as trick as was allowed back then (late 70's/early 80's) well before tube frame and race-weight bodies were allowed. It could still be Vintage racing in the midwest, a guy from Green bay bought it and that was his plan.

Here's the crew at our 'last hurrah' at Road American:



L to R: Rod chief mechanic, me owner and crew chief, Dan (Rod's brother) bodyman/painter, and Howard mechanic.

Be careful about asking more questions, I could blab on forwever about this car

Dave