GCorvette
CCCUK Member
@teamzr1
In response to the fabulous videos of your 1999 C5, you did indeed correctly pick up on that I like that throaty race car rumble.
My father raced British sports and saloon cars in the 1950's, 60's & 70's, so from birth I was always at a race track and by the age of 7, I had latched onto the thundering V8 Camaros that were causing a storm on the UK scene.
The likes of Frank Gardner, Martin Thomas and Stuart Graham were my racing heroes.
Ironically, some 35 years later, I would buy my first Corvette (a C5) from Stuart Graham's brother Chris proving what a small world it is!
My first introduction to the Corvette didn't come until 1972 then aged 9 when I saw them race both in the UK and at Spa in Belgium.
This 1968 C3 was brought over in '72 and converted into a race car and campaigned very successfully by Rhoddy Harvey Bailey in the British Mod Sports class.
He set a new lap record and won in the Corvette's first outing with a further 5 wins that season.
A trip to Canada in 1978 aged 15, sealed the deal for me, my first time spent around road going Corvettes as this extremely 'period' photo of me shows.
By 1982 I was out of school and out on my first full rock n roll tour with Genesis and I grinned from ear to ear every time a thundering Corvette pulled up under my window on the tour bus.
The Texan sound and light crew found this most amusing!
So that's the backstory on why my C3 (when I get it later this year) will reflect both the road and racing heritage and sound as throaty as I can legally make it!
Thanks again for sharing those videos!
In response to the fabulous videos of your 1999 C5, you did indeed correctly pick up on that I like that throaty race car rumble.
My father raced British sports and saloon cars in the 1950's, 60's & 70's, so from birth I was always at a race track and by the age of 7, I had latched onto the thundering V8 Camaros that were causing a storm on the UK scene.
The likes of Frank Gardner, Martin Thomas and Stuart Graham were my racing heroes.
Ironically, some 35 years later, I would buy my first Corvette (a C5) from Stuart Graham's brother Chris proving what a small world it is!
My first introduction to the Corvette didn't come until 1972 then aged 9 when I saw them race both in the UK and at Spa in Belgium.
This 1968 C3 was brought over in '72 and converted into a race car and campaigned very successfully by Rhoddy Harvey Bailey in the British Mod Sports class.
He set a new lap record and won in the Corvette's first outing with a further 5 wins that season.
A trip to Canada in 1978 aged 15, sealed the deal for me, my first time spent around road going Corvettes as this extremely 'period' photo of me shows.
By 1982 I was out of school and out on my first full rock n roll tour with Genesis and I grinned from ear to ear every time a thundering Corvette pulled up under my window on the tour bus.The Texan sound and light crew found this most amusing!
So that's the backstory on why my C3 (when I get it later this year) will reflect both the road and racing heritage and sound as throaty as I can legally make it!
Thanks again for sharing those videos!
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