This Greenwood Corvette is genuine Le Mans royalty.
for the 1969 model year. This hopped-up variant of Chevrolet’s 427 cubic-inch big block was said to produce 435 horsepower in period, but today it is widely accepted that the engine was actually pushing somewhere north of 540 horsepower. That meant almost nothing in the GM catalog could touch the L88 in terms of performance. We say almost, as an all-aluminum version of the engine known as the ZL-1 was even more potent and rare.
, Dick Smothers and Don Yenko. Greenwood and Smothers would take a GT class victory in the car at the 1972 Watkins Glen Six Hour. The following year, No. 49 would participate at the 12 Hours of Sebring, the Daytona 24 Hours, and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The car wouldn’t finish the race in France, but it did set a GT class top speed record on the Mulsanne straight, hitting 215 mph. For reference, that’s a faster speed than a modern Z06 will muster with its 670 hp flat-planer.
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