The Superformance Corvette Grand Sport is Modern History
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- čas přidán 26. 09. 2017
- You'll never drive a real one. Chevrolet only built five original Corvette Grand Sport race cars back in the early 1960s. The last time one sold, it reportedly fetched $5,000,000 and that was in 2009. You can drive one of these though; this is Superformance Corvette Grand Sport.
Superformance has the full rights to build these licensed continuation cars, which are basically the same deal as the original Grand Sports. The good news on these cars, however, is that you can choose from one of eight available engines offered up through the GM Performance Parts catalog.
We sampled two versions of the car; one with a modern LT1 making 460 horsepower and the other with a Lingenfelter-prepped LS3 producing 500 horsepower.
Both versions are loud, aggressive, and in your face. If we had the dough, we'd happily take a Superformance Grand Sport over any modern supercar. You can be shouty in a Lamborghini, but you're shouty and you get it when you do so in this vintage racing machine... that just so happens to be brand new.
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Amazing how much Corvette history is engineers getting stalled by overpaid GM executives.
THESE ARE SO MUCH BETTER THAN ANYTHING WE HAVE NOW 2019.
Nope , she didnt got spLitvvindow
I rode in the number 36 car owned by Delmo Johnson. I was a kid and a regular in his pit, and his mechanic told me to “hop in”. It was a brief, noisy ride..but never forgot it. It made the ground shake.
Beautiful. The first 85 seconds is reminiscent of a James Bond opening scene.
well damn, all that planning and amazing filiming and you decided to wear G-Shock that day lmao.
🔥
That's a dream car! I always dream of someday driving that car. I'm not a car fan at all, but when I saw this type of car, I was mind blown. Such a beauty.
I think I can only spend the fraction of the "fraction of the cost" of the original.
I would so love to have one of these done up at the #80 tribute such a beautiful race car!
Great video well done of a great car well 're' done !
There used to be one in Racine WI, the guy who owned it let me sit in the car, it was at the Racine zoo for zoofari days my favorite vette !!!!
Holy crap that is beautiful. 8 motors to choose from! Amazeballs.
I'm dying to see one with that 377 and those quad Webers
The problem with the Webers is that the 58 mm DCOE carbs and the intake for them are semi unavailable. What you can get readily are 48 mm DCOEs and a manifold for them. In the real world you can make the 48s with big chokes work fine on a 377. The 48s will flow enough for about 550 HP. Someone who knows what they're looking at will know the 48s are not 58s.
Wow. Beautiful car, fantastic noises. Can’t imagine what sort of fun that is to drive. I’d be torn between spec’ing mine with a Lingenfelter LS with those velocity stacks, or the period-correct all aluminum SBC running the Weber cross-ram setup. Modern reliability with brutal power? Or original noises and all the “personality” that goes with an engine breathing thru Webers? Tough call. Would be a fantastic automobile either way. Now if I can convince wifey that this is an appropriate use of $150k+...
If I make it big in life this is my dream car. I can get Porsches, Aston Martin, Mercedes amg gt for this price but nothing will ever connect to me like this car
Just bought one and I can say, it's absolutely incredible. I've owned everything from r8s, vipers, lambos and most recently gt40s. The grand sport is perfect. Sound insane, spacious, comfortable and just so aggressive looking 😍😍😍 I'll be posting some stuff on my channel
Love my new 2019 Corvette C7 Grand Sport with its Manual Transmission!
Who cares?
I am lucky to say I have seen an original, and it is the coolest Corvette ever, next after that is the new C8.
You guys are going to have to pump up that sick engine. It really does sound anemic. There's no pop to that exhaust note at all.
I’m poor today but in five years I will be driving one and owning one ... be ready
Now that's the sh#t I'm talking about. Make it happen best of luck. Hope I run into you in mine - cause I want one these badass Vette too😎
Make it happen - best of luck.
Never give up! Never stop!
philip scara my man, let’s plan to meet up , and take them out and post it to the tube, and tag this video.
I’m willing to take the challenge . I’m planning everyday . I wish you the very best of luck, and patience on those days when you wonder why your working so hard . You got this ,!!!!
I wish you all the best
Yes yes! The Gran Sport is a beast! Then only problem I have with this video is that it should have been longer. Oh and the audio didn't really capture the road eating roar of this side pipes. 😎
Im basing my life around trying to get one either momgoose or that
whats the background music
The cobra slayer..Corvette Grand Sport.
It's as if Cal from King Of The Mountain had money to finish Corvette. Well and that whole thing about going off a cliff on Mulholland.
Dennis Hopper : "Time is speed - Speed is time " ! ... in 'king of the hill'
brings back an 80's memory just as this remarkable car of yesteryear brings back even more
Well damn....
Funny that the speedo is doing the same thing my 77 did lol
Typical GM cutting off something so amazing like this. I’m really surprised at all GM cars or not just in-line six cylinder, sad
I’ll have mine with an aluminum block 632bb.
Superformance Is The Best Thing That Happened To Classic Cars, Though I'll Never Be Able To Afford One. I'm Old So All The New Stuff Looks Like Crap To Me!
I don't really understand why someone would want to outfit such a masterful recreation (with this level of attention to detail) with a modern, crazy powerful engine. If it were my money, I'd go for something more period correct.
+E Panarese and you can get that. I mentioned there are about eight engine choices including an aluminum 377 cubic inch small block with Weber carbs
E Panarese awesome
I agree, go period correct! Why is everything so expensive the average person can't afford many of these things
Little does he know, the original Chevrolet 377 Hem small block that went into one of the originals dynoed at 600hp last time I heard. All they did was freshen it up with engine balancing and checked the tolerances.
Yeah I agree with this, I would go with something period correct. I think I'm one of the weird people that likes carburetors
I think that's the first thing I'd buy if I won the lottery
I can only spend a fraction of it's cost, sadly.
No one really talks about one of the biggest factors of why the Corvette Grand Sport was so important. Corvette C2s and C3s are heavy fat pigs with massive steel full frames. To become competitive they had to to loose weight and that was done via a whole new rolling chassis under the cars and thinner fiberglass bodies. Since, GM killed the project, it worked out great for the Shelby Cobra and Daytona Coupes to dominate racing in the States and overseas for the next two years. In the states it was pretty easy to make the low tech-stripped down Mustangs competitive against Corvettes in most racing classes due the the light weight steel bodies and torque happy big blocks. In would gladly take my Gramd Sport with modern fuel injection any day!
And the Grand Sports beat the cobra on the track.
Whats the price range
The rarest Corvette is the 1983. Only one was ever built. It's in the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green KY.
I thought this was about the history, not a sales pitch.....
Last I checked, Mongoose sells the kit, just over $16k, Body/Chassis. I can take it from there. I have built every vehicle since my 1st, which was a 68 Camaro. Late model Vette suspension, under GS bodywork. This IS what I've been think about, since B4 Mongoose...Back in the D&D Corvette days...I still have my issues of kit car mag, somewhere. My health is not working out, so I may be going home early. Would be my greatest achievement building a GS. I have motors out the ***. I can build one heck of an engine.
Mike Romeo this is not a kit car, its a continuation series. Officially licensed by GM, and its chassis number is in the GM registry. The parts are even swappable with the original car
This and 1965 Shelby Cobra
Do they offer automatic transmissions as an option?
youngestson 65 that’s sack religious. Automatic omg.
They do
@@KaiYullT . Appreciate the information.
How much
Yes but, is it a 7/8ths build?
Yep
How tall is the test pilot?
5ft ,8in ?
Im 6,3
Not hopeful i will fit
@@wes209 I am 6'3" as well and fit totally fine
All aluminum bbc 427 would do it for me.
Baron VonFrankenstein I agree just like the ones in the Can-Am cars around 740 horse yes sir and mechanical fuel injection a handful to say the least but a huge difference in Sound and Power
Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy a C2, LS swap out and modify the body slightly?
No, because the C2 Corvette Grand Sport uses a purpose built race chassis with special body panels, with both the frame and the body panels being physically smaller than those of a regular C2 Corvette. They were also built using the original blueprints used to build the original 1963 Grand Sports.
Needs covered headlights to look tougher and hide those Frog eyes!
...and when it gets dark?
Its too bad they couldn't make a replica coupe and convertible C2 without all the boy racer stuff that was on the Gran Sport...
I go with a sleeved ls7 throw a maggie on it and blow the doors off every car I ever run into.
Yeah I laughed too when he said about affording one, shut up... good video, beautiful car.
"Rarest of all Corvette"? Wrong!
Sure, they made 5 GS's in '63. But only 3 ZL1's were built in '69 and only 2 '71 ZL2 convertibles. And the ZLX? Who knows!
So put an all aluminum 427(big block) in your old (new)Grand Sport.....Oh...if I had the money.
Pshhh you know what's even more rare than those 3 ZL1's? The 1983 Corvette! :)
1983 pretty rare
@@IhateCZcams they were made but not sold to the public.
@@studio-flash yes 44 were made and used for testing purposes. 43 of the 44 were destroyed and the only surviving 1983 exists in the National Corvette Museum.
The C2 is is the best body style for the corvette. C3 or newer is a no go for me
Price?
180k to 190k
You forget to tell that these are all 7/8 sized cars!
they are not
@@charlescrockett6208 oh yes they are, per Zora Arkus Dubrovnik!
@@arttafil6792 look at the specs wb lwh they are the same. Have you driven 1? I have.
Is it street legal ? I assume yes ? Can you buy gas , is that available for it ?
Not sure why somebody would spend that much money on a kit car. You would be better off building it on a real Corvette and making it a recreation. Prob be cheaper too.
This is an official GM-licensed recreation... This is no kit car.
P.S. Gotta open them pipes too. It's quiet.
Only in America!...
Carlos Oliveira its actually built in South Africa
Danie van Rensburg ,
Yes, I know that.
My idea was that only in the States (and not in many other countries) you can put a licence plate on it.
I think it is not possible in any EU Country.
I was about to buy a Coupe Cobra Daytona when I was living in Canada, in 2006, but I realized I wouldn't be abble to put a portuguese licence plate on it, once back home.The Daytona was a fantastic car, for the price of a Viper...
The GT 40 from Superformance is also fabulous as is this one, but also the same problem (as with all other GT40 ...from Safir to GTD many years ago)...
I have to move to the US!
(or South Africa...)
Carlos Oliveira my apologies. Never though of it that way. Here in SA we can put a license plate on basically anything, suppose the same for the US.
Danie van Rensburg ,
Beautiful country South Africa!
Did the "garden route" once on a rented Nissan Primera. Was a bit caotic during the day, but fast at night, on the way back to CapeTown (even got a speed ticket...)
Carlos Oliveira for its many problems, I must admit that it is a gorgeous place, I am glad you liked it. The garden route is one of my favourite places as well. A few weekends ago a friend and I went to the mountains in the eastern free state with his 911. What an experience!
140,000 180,000 for old technology ,, wtf , way better options today ,, sorry for ur luck , find some rich old dudes before they die,,,,
The car is outstanding !
The review was worthless at best.
Just like this comment you felt like leaving, good times all around!
The rarest corvette in the world is the 1969 ZL1, only two were made.
This guy is a drama queen.
much ado about nothing- its all original EXCEPT- nothing but a glorified restojunk.................bet they are not to 7/8 ths scale like the ONLY five real ones