America monster V-8s that launched a million speeding tickets and changed the game for street performance.In order to give ...

A drag racer walked away from a harrowing crash after the Corvette he was racing at World Wide Technology Raceway in Illinois went airborne. The video, taken during a high-speed test run on May 31 ...

This 1957 Chevrolet SS one-off race car just became the most expensive Corvette ever sold It hammered for US$7.7 million (CDN$11 million)—double the previous auction record The racer was the pet ...

March 5, 2025 A 1957 Corvette Just Sold for $7.7 Million, Making It the Most Expensive of All Time The race car had spent the past six decades in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum collection.

1957 Chevrolet Corvette SS Sells for $7.7 Million, Setting a 'Vette Record The Corvette SS, internally known as Project XP-64, birthed all modern racing variants of America's Sports Car.

The National Corvette Museum says the race car project was Earl’s idea but his plan was to drop a Chevy engine into a Jaguar D-type and take the makeshift racecar to Sebring in 1957.

While it was once said that "there's no replacement for displacement" for increased power, the new paradigm of the Chevrolet Corvette unveiled in 1990 proved computer controls with fuel injection ...

Chevrolet introduced the small-block V8 in 1954, and the reliable little brute powered almost every important Chevy by the time it retired in 2002.

Robert drives a 1925 Model T roadster-pickup truck, highly modified, with a Chevy 327 dual-quad motor for speed, and a 1957 Corvette Positraction rear end.

Road & Track drove one from zero to 60 mph in 5.7 seconds and covered the standing start quarter-mile in 14.3 seconds. That was literally race car performance in 1957.

The car ran in the 1957 12 Hours of Sebring and retired after 23 laps due to overheating and brake and suspension troubles. That’s not the kind of publicity the Corvette team was looking for.