1982 Chevrolet Corvette

This was one of the cars that took part in a Classic Car Show in Hyde, Cheshire in October 2022.

It's a Third Generation Chevrolet Corvette

It has a 350 cu in (5.7 litre) V8 engine

1958 Chevrolet Corvette

I took this photograph during the HSCC Historic Road Sports race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 1995.

The 1968 Chevrolet Corvette of Bernie Chodosh is following the 1969 Lancia Fulvia of Paul Howarth, the Lancia having a 1,298cc V4 engine and the programme of the event says that the Corvette has a 5.2 litre engine.

Chevrolet Corvette

This car took part in the RAC Tourist Trophy Race for Historic Cars at the Silverstone Classic meeting of July 2010.

It's the 1960 Chevrolet Corvette C1 driven in the hour long race by Bernie Chodosh and John Young. According to the programme of the event it had a 4,700cc engine, which probably means that it was the 283 cu in small-block V8 which actually equates to 4,638cc. The car warranted a note in the programme on the page about the TT race: 'Finally, don't look for it, you will hear it first! Keep an ear open for the enthusiastically driven Corvette of Bernie Chodosh.'

Memorial Day 2007 - The Vehicles

Yesterday I showed some of the people taking part in the Memorial Day parade in Edgewater Park, New Jersey in 2007. Here are some of the vehicles in the parade which we photographed. I've tried to identify the cars which took part, but may not have been totally accurate.

Plymouth Prowler

1902 Packard Model F

Ford Model A Roadster

Chevrolet Corvette Series 1

Looks like a 1934 Ford

1950 Dodge Coronet

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.