Chevrolet Corvette

The first Chevrolet Corvette was produced in 1953 and has been produced since then in a variety of guises as detailed in this Wikipedia article.

The first race in the HSCC Summer Race meeting at Oulton Park on 4th July 1992 was entitled the 'Barley Construction Improved Road Sports Championship' and one of the cars entered in the race was this First Generation C1 1958 Chevrolet Corvette.

This car was also entered in a second race later in the day which, in an acknowledgment of it being the fourth of July, was entitled the 'HSCC Independence Day Race'. The programme says 'This invitation race is open to American V8 engined cars built before 1971, and to limited production sports cars using American V8 engines'. The car behind the Corvette was entered in that race and is a 1964 Ford Falcon.

Here's the car during the first race at the Knickerbrook Chicane being driven by Bernie Chodosh and followed by the 1965 Shelby Cobra GT350 of Ralph Avis. The yellow Corvette in the background (the 1969 car of Hal Danby) appears to  be stopped on the road which forms part of the shorter circuit at this point. The international circuit carries on up Lakeside here behind the yellow Corvette and you can see one of the other cars in the race making its way up there to Island Bend.