No two Corvettes are exactly alike--and this pair of reader's rides proves it.

San Jacinto Red

Pete Rosado
San Jacinto, CA
1995 Corvette Coupe

Here is my ‘95 Corvette Coupe (Automatic).  This is my second Corvette. Since I was seven years old, I dreamed of owing a Vette, and it finally became a reality in 1997. 

This Corvette I bought it in October 2004, and it has a few small modifications: a set of Hooker “Shorty” Headers; a Magnaflow cat-back exhaust system; MSD’s Opti-Spark ignition, Blaster coil and conductors; Vortex Ram Air induction  and a brake bias spring, The ECM was reprogrammed, and this car also has C5 Z06 front disc brakes and C6 Z06 wheels.

I performed all the labor on it except for the mufflers/cat-back installation. 

Semper Fidelis!

RedRod

Richard Smith
Sulphur, Louisiana
’66 Corvette Sting Ray (clone)


I planned this in my mind for many years before building it in 2005. The plan was to build a car that would look like a Corvette with about half the weight, fitting within SCCA rules for an E/Modified autocross car.

I picked the parts to build a Corvette clone body from Vanacor’s Corvette Parts, and they made them with only two layers of fiberglass. I glued them together into a one-piece body that sits on the chassis and is held on with four bolts. I painted it in Corvette ‘Torch Red’ with four coats of clear.

The interior is fabricated from sheet aluminum. Race ready weight is 1712 pounds.

Driving it is a dream. This car has plenty of power, it starts every time and runs smooth as
silk. With some shifter adjustments and brake balance tuning, it has proven to be a very
fast—and winning--competitor.