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24 unusual facts about Chevrolet Corvette


1992 Philadelphia Eagles season

Tragedy struck the team when, on June 25, 1992, defensive tackle Jerome Brown lost control of his Chevrolet Corvette at high speed before crashing into an electric pole, killing Brown and his nephew.

2009 24 Hours of Spa

PK Carsport's Anthony Kumpen, Mike Hezemans, Kurt Mollekens, and Jos Menten won the race for the second time for Corvette, leading a Vitaphone Racing Maserati and a Phoenix Racing Audi for the overall podium.

2009 American Le Mans Series at Long Beach

Fernández Racing Acura also won the LMP2 category for their third straight race while the #4 Chevrolet Corvette of Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta won Corvette Racing's final appearance in the GT1 category in the American Le Mans Series.

2009 Budapest City Challenge

Enrique Bernoldi, in only his second FIA GT event, qualified the Sangari Corvette on the second row alongside the third Vitaphone Maserati.

Autopia

The colorful Chevrolet Corvette Stingray-style cars were replaced by three different kinds of cars: Dusty, an off-road style car; Sparky, a sports car; and Suzy, a Volkswagen Beetle-style car.

Bowling Green Hot Rods

The "Hot Rods" name refers to the connections that Bowling Green has to the automotive and racing industries such the National Corvette Museum, Holley Carburetor, Beech Bend Raceway and the Bowling Green Assembly Plant, which is the only location in the world that produces General Motors' Chevrolet Corvette.

Chevrolet Corvette Stingray

Corvette Stingray (concept car), a concept car that preceded the second generation of the Chevrolet Corvette

Clubhouses

He has bought a red Corvette convertible, is wearing an earring, flirts with girls at traffic lights and turns up at the aforementioned party in Cartman's clubhouse organized by the runaway girls.

Constructive receipt

Paul Hornung, a football player for the Green Bay Packers, won a Corvette as a prize on December 31, 1961, for his performance in the 1961 NFL Championship Game.

Corvette Z06

Corvette Z06 refers to a high-performance version of the Chevrolet Corvette.

Dick Bosman

His daily ride is a fire red 1936 Chevy two-door sedan with a 330 horsepower (246 kW) Corvette engine, cruise control, air conditioning and power windows.

Dominik Schwager

This expanded in 2008 when Schwager entered the new ADAC GT Masters series in a Callaway Corvette and won three races.

Festival Place

The centre was used by BBC's Top Gear (Series 12, Episode 6) by Jeremy Clarkson who was road testing a Ford Fiesta 2008 whilst being chased by "Baddies" in a Chevrolet Corvette.

Jerome Brown

Brown died on June 25, 1992, at the age of 27, following an automobile accident in Brooksville, Florida, in which both he and his 12-year-old nephew, Gus, were killed when Brown lost control of his ZR1 Chevrolet Corvette at high speed and crashed into a utility pole.

Johnny Podres

Podres was given the first-ever World Series MVP Award by Sport magazine and presented with a red two-seater Corvette.

Lars Grimsrud

Lars Grimsrud is an aerospace engineer and performance automobile enthusiast who has become a celebrity amongst owners of carbureted Chevrolet Corvettes and GM muscle cars for his skill at tuning their engines.

Magnetorheological fluid

It made its debut in both Cadillac (Seville STS build date on or after 1/15/2002 with RPO F55) as "Magneride" (or "MR") and Chevrolet passenger vehicles (All Corvettes made since 2003 with the F55 option code) as part of the driver selectable "Magnetic Selective Ride Control (MSRC)" system in model year 2003.

Marlboro Motor Raceway

"Marlboro Maroon Metallic", a color available on the 1967 and 1970 Chevrolet Corvette and one of many paint codes named for famous racing venues, was named after Marlboro Motor Raceway.

Masao Ohba

He was driving his Chevrolet Corvette down an expressway in Tokyo, when he hit a truck coming down the opposite lane.

Myron Cottrell

In 1985 Cottrell bought a new Chevrolet Corvette and was intrigued to learn how its Tuned Port Injection system worked.

Pfadt Race Engineering

Bearing the name of its founder, Aaron Padt \faht\, the company is one of the leading developers of aftermarket Corvette and Camaro suspension components.

Team Racing Auto Circuit

Some of the cars that were scheduled to compete included the Chevrolet Corvette, the Dodge Viper, and the Ford Mustang.

The Best Day

In the second verse, the boy now a teenager and newly licensed gets his first car, a classic Chevrolet Corvette which he and his father plan to restore.

Tod Stiles

He then died of a coronary thrombosis, leaving Tod an inheritance consisting of little more than a brand new convertible Chevrolet Corvette.


Greenwood Corvettes

John Greenwood drove Chevrolet Corvettes during several significant races in the 1970s, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans (1972, 1973, 1976), the 24 Hours of Daytona (1971), and the 12 Hours of Sebring (1971).

Hillclimbing in the United States

On August 15, 1965, Phillip Lyman, of Ten Sleep, Wyoming, won the fifth annual TenSleep Canyon hillclimb, driving a Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray, in a time of 4:48.1 sec.