the pavement as it leaves the line is an awesome experience. And this car is not a light-weight, carbon-fiber bodied knock-off - it’s the real genuine GM deal.
Rick’s C5 started out as a production 2000 Corvette that went straight to the Competition Engineering shop in south Florida for the Hot Street transformation. At CE, the car was dismantled, then purpose-rebuilt from the ground up as an all-out drag racer. The factory floor pans and rear suspension were cut away to make room for the 10-point roll cage and four-link rear suspension. A CE-fabricated rear end housing is filled with a Strange aluminum chunk, 5.43 gears, and 40-spline axles. Mickey Thompson 10.5-inch ET Drag slicks are mounted on Monocoque wheels at the back, while up front the factory geometry was retained but modified to meet NMCA Hot Street requirements.