Only five 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport chassis were built as secret, ultra-lightweight competition cars.
They dropped roughly 1,300 pounds using a tubular steel frame and one-piece fiberglass body.
At Nassau in 1963 the Grand Sports outpaced Shelby’s Cobras, earning the “Snake Eater” nickname.
The 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport, one of only five built, is back in the spotlight as a reminder of how far Zora Arkus-Duntov was willing to push America’s sports car in its battle with Carroll Shelby’s Cobra. Conceived as a secret, ultra-lightweight Sting Ray based racer, the Grand Sport was engineered to take on Europe and Shelby on their…
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