First off here’s the car…
It’s a '68 Corvette setup to run BSP (B-Street Prepared) or BSPV for sanctioning bodies that run that class (the V being Vintage). Obviously it has huge fender flares to cover 25x11.5 Goodyear slicks. The suspension is all stock mounting points and mostly stock parts just beefed up (solid or poly bushings in reinforced stock control arms) with stiffer springs, shocks and sway bars. But nothing exotic here. No tubular arms anywhere. 4 point roll bar (main hoop w/ rearward kickers, no door beams) and a tie-bar between the front upper control arms. The motor is a stock (but rebuilt) '70 LT1 (for those don’t know the original LT1 was a '70 not the later EFI ones most of you are familiar w/). It has roller rockers, long tube headers, big duals w/ X-pipe and tachs to 7k but again really nothing exotic. The '68 was the first year of the C3, but really it’s more similar in suspension and chassis to the C2s than the '69-82 C3s. So basically it’s engineering dates back to the '63 model year so basically the late 50s.
Driving this car was fucking amazing. It stays flat, plants hard and just sticks. It hooks damn hard on launch and will get a little wheel hop. But it’s not hard hop like some 4th Gen. Fbodies get it’s more of a shudder. But obviously it’s far from optimized for launching. From there it really has no vices. Nice neutral attitude. The tail can be controlled easily w/ the throttle or even the brakes in decreasing radii turns. It doesn’t body roll, and a huge thing to me you can stand on the brakes and you will never get brake hop (though you do need to be careful since it of course doesn’t have ABS and you can flat spot tires).
The car is just easy to drive fast. I had literally never driven the car b4 today’s AutoX and I was still down time wise w/ the faster cars out today. The owner was still 4 seconds ahead of me… placing him right up there w/ the fastest cars. The only things that really still smoked it were a full-race setup GT2 and a SC’ed, super light, wide-body E36 M3.
-TJ