article on re-creation C3 LT2 drag/test Lightweight Corvette

[JoeC]

Great article by Martyn Schorr on the re-creation of the C3 LT2 drag/test Lightweight Corvette

this was the 10 sec Corvette test car shown at the 1969 and 1970 press previews

includes pictures of possible Yenko Deuce Nova prototype

http://carguychronicles.com/2020/01/...ight-corvette/

[Keith Seymore]

I had some (minimal) involvement in the re-creation; my role was to get Dave Miller hooked up with some of the other engineers who had been present for the Long Lead.

When I first started at Milford (1986) my officemate, John M, was the fleet coordinator for light duty trucks. He was well connected and quite charismatic, and had been there for that event.

In the mid 1980's John had rediscovered the engine which had been on display at the show, both as a visual reference but also as a backup engine in case something happened to an engine in one of the cars. It was (also) an all aluminum solid lifter 454.

After some horse trading he was able to wrangle the storage tag away from the engine's "owner" in exchange for the use of a Suburban for the weekend.

We had a white 1985 shortbox stepside pickup with, at that time, an LS7 engine in it, as sort of an under the table team building/morale booster toy. The aluminum motor eventually found its way into our little pickup. We had it going 10.70's before we were done, running tune/test at Martin, Milan and Stanton, and local Super Chevy events.

Dave interviewed John in his home but I fear he may have gotten more of a sly "...I have no idea what you are talking about..." kind of response.

K

[Keith Seymore]

Couple more articles from when the re-creation was first completed:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/a...=top-news&_r=0

https://www.motortrend.com/news/1969...e-lt-2-review/

[Tracker1]

Originally Posted by keith seymore

i had some (minimal) involvement in the re-creation; my role was to get dave miller hooked up with some of the other engineers who had been present for the long lead.

When i first started at milford (1986) my officemate, john m, was the fleet coordinator for light duty trucks. He was well connected and quite charismatic, and had been there for that event.

In the mid 1980's john had rediscovered the engine which had been on display at the show, both as a visual reference but also as a backup engine in case something happened to an engine in one of the cars. It was (also) an all aluminum solid lifter 454.

After some horse trading he was able to wrangle the storage tag away from the engine's "owner" in exchange for the use of a suburban for the weekend.

We had a white 1985 shortbox stepside pickup with, at that time, an ls7 engine in it, as sort of an under the table team building/morale booster toy. The aluminum motor eventually found its way into our little pickup. We had it going 10.70's before we were done, running tune/test at martin, milan and stanton, and local super chevy events.

Dave interviewed john in his home but i fear he may have gotten more of a sly "...i have no idea what you are talking about..." kind of response.

K

i remember reading that!! So cool you were involved!

Werner knows his stuff, that's for sure. oldredalert this orange car was in the works when you went down to look at the Daytona yellow 1970 LS7 Convertible for me at his place. Surprised he didn't bring it up. He spent a lot of time on it, but it was probably at a different shop.

[olredalert]

Originally Posted by Tracker1

i remember reading that!! So cool you were involved!

Werner knows his stuff, that's for sure. oldredalert this orange car was in the works when you went down to look at the Daytona yellow 1970 LS7 Convertible for me at his place. Surprised he didn't bring it up. He spent a lot of time on it, but it was probably at a different shop.

----I remember the day, but no one talked about that car that day. It just seemed like another restoration underway. I was way more interested in the yellow car which was very cool!....Bill S

[Kered-TCracingCA]

New forum for me, so will have to learn how to upload pictures!

But the story I referenced in the other thread about that dual stamped 427 003 454 02 engine was:

Sports Car Graphic Oct 69 10 Second Trip Story.

For me to load article, I need to figure out how to get URL on my storage pictures. Sorry

[Kered-TCracingCA]

Also so cool we have a guy here involved!!! Awesome!

Thanks Kevin Seymore for linking some of my shared posts!

[dykstra]

Very cool!!

[Dave Rifkin]

I saw a recreation of that car at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green; would that have been the same car or are there more than one recreation of this Corvette?

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Dave Rifkin

I saw a recreation of that car at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green; would that have been the same car or are there more than one recreation of this Corvette?

This is the only "sanctioned" re-creation that I am aware of.

To give you an idea of the level of detail they went into: the original donor vehicle was yellow (or white, maybe) and painted orange over that.

When they sourced a vehicle for the re-creation they found a car the same color as the original and painted it orange, in the same way.

K