1963 Corvette Grand Sport – 5 examples
In the early ’60s, the Corvette had already proven itself on the market. It became time to establish itself on the race track. Back in the day, the Shelby Cobra by Ford was dominant at race tracks and the Corvette team wanted to beat it. So Zora and his team prepared five Grand Sport Corvettes with modified bodies, special suspension, fully loaded race engines, and a host of other specially built components (via Rev Institute).
The Grand Sport Corvette had over 550 hp and was capable of brutal performance. The Corvette team had big plans and entered the Grand Sport Corvettes in several races with mixed success when the decision from the top of General Motors stopped all racing activities. For some reason, GM decided to stop investing in all forms of racing in early 1963. It killed the fantastic Grand Sport program before it could prove its worth, making the Corvette Grand Sport one of the racing world’s greatest “what if” stories. All five cars are still around, which is amazing.