During
the American LeMans series at Texas Motor Speedway last month, we spied a pair
of beautifully-prepared red/white/blue Corvettes on the Speedvision World Challenge
GT grid - #73 driven by Phil McClure and #47 piloted by teammate Bob Taylor.
At it turns out, these C5s are known as “kit cars” because GM delivers them
as rolling chassis, with the body panels shipped separately so race shops can
assemble the cars as production-based racers for the GT class in the Speedvision
World Challenge to compete against Porsche 911s, Audi S4s, BMW M3s, Acura NSXs,
Vipers, and Mustang Cobra Rs. The purpose of the series is to race a “real”
Corvette against a real Porsche against a real Mustang. Of course, safety, brake,
and suspension modifications are necessary upgrades for racing.
Taylor explained how the two got together. “We worked
for the same company. Phil got interested because he drives dirt cars over in
Iowa and we just decided maybe we’d
