Grand Sport Corvette

[Lee Stewart]

Photos taken prior to prep for Nassau races

[Lee Stewart]

[Lee Stewart]

1963 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport Reunion - A Reunion Of The Rarest

http://www.superchevy.com/events/vem...-sport-reunion

[seventieshow]

"Imagine what might have been if Zora Duntov and his engineering group had carte blanche on racing and performance production projects..."

Certain kit car owners would be less obnoxious. At the local level the Cobra would not have enjoyed the success it had if GM would have backed Corvette racers at a corporate level, as Ford did. The GS was light enough to compete and then some, and the money would have been there as well.

[lowmile]

Want to see one at the drag strip? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOcav6ZwZ7c

[67since67]

Originally Posted by lowmile

Want to see one at the drag strip? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOcav6ZwZ7c

Thanks for posting!! Lot of good running Chevelles as well!!

[lowmile]

This is some old footage of Jon Thon's Grand Sport Corvette and his Blue/Black vinyl top 66 375hp M22 Chevelle drag racing at Albany Ga. The m22 in the 1966 Chevelle was a rare bird in its own right. I believe he took the TRACO 427 engine out of the GS and put in the Chevelle in the early 70's Jon McGee, my dads dirt track racing partner, said Jon Thorn took him for a ride after the engine swap into the Chevelle. He passed a log truck cresting a hill at about 120 mph. Jon M said he was done riding with him after that.

[markjohnson]

Some very interesting cars passed thru the hands of Jon Thorne including the ex-Bob Tucker 1963 Z-11 Impala.

[JoeC]

The 004 Grand Sport Corvette was loaned to Yenko in 1963 for the Yenko Gulf Corvette Racing team. They ran it with a FI 327 in C/Modified class

In 1963 they were still using a narrow tire and the GS looked more like a stock Corvette

Chevy took it back and rebuilt for 1964 and it had wider tires and fender flares
Don Yenko drove it in at least one race in 64

Yenko saved a 327 FI alu head engine for it for many years. It was sold at the Yenko estate sale in the 1990's

some cool pics of it at VIR 1963

[Steve Shauger]

Great information and fantastic pictures Joe. Notice they recessed door handle for aerodynamics. The door handles were made of aluminum for weight reduction as well.