WSC60 Corvette Grand Sport

3d Model Conversion by: Big FAT Luke, Updates by Mac Ten Cast Iron + Alu head Small Block 388ci The Grand Sport was a direct development of the 1958 FIA ruling that limited international sports/racing cars to three liters engine displacement. Up until that moment, Chevrolet had been hard at work on some exotic big-engined sports/racers, the last of which, the Corvette SS, ran at the 1957 Sebring race in the hands of Piero Taruffi and John Fitch. Seeing no benefit to passenger-car engineering in perfecting a 3-liter racing engine, Chevrolet stayed away from road racing until their resident competition wizard, Zora Arkus-Duntov, spotted a loophole in the FIA rules that would permit Chevrolet's return. Because no displacement limits were set on GT cars, Duntov and his talented design group set out to build a lightweight, big-engined Grand Tourer that would be powerful enough to win not only the GT class, but also the supposedly faster sports/racing category as well. The goal was no less than an overall victory at the Le Mans 24-hour classic. Chevrolet, still shying away from an all-out racing car disguised as a GT car, wanted their Grand Sport to look like a production car -