
Wrong! Watch the Corvette marketplace and youll see real history for
the taking. You cant get much more historic than the Corvette Challenge
series that ran in 1988 and 1989, yet these are cars are on the market regularly
for a price many can afford.
A total of 56 Corvettes were ordered for the 1988
series under Challenge Powertrain code B9P. Fifty of those cars were shipped
from Bowling Green to Protofab in Wixom, Michigan, to be fitted with competition
equipment, including a roll cage, racing seat, safety harness, Desert Drivelines
low-restriction exhaust, PBR brake pads
and special ducting, a fire extinguisher system and special Corvette Challenge
emblems. The cars raced on stock Goodyear
Gatorbacks with the tread shaved to half the normal depth, mounted on strong
Dymag wheels. All of the cars were equipped
with the infamous Doug