NIB 2003 50th Anniversary Corvette Z06 Dick Guldstrand Edition **AUTOGRAPHED**

Description: NEW IN BOX **AUTOGRAPHED** 2003 C5 Corvette Z06 Signed 50th Anniversary Tribute to the Chevrolet Corvette Racing Legend Dick Guldstrand’s Alternative 50th Anniversary Corvette — A Contemporary 427-Powered Z06! One of the most iconic C5 Corvette’s ever produced. The Guldstrand Signature Edition 50th Anniversary Corvette is an icon. There’s more to it than a distinctive paint scheme and handsome body work though. It makes about 500 horsepower with roughly 422 cubic inches of displacement, is lowered by about an inch, and features bigger front and rear roll bars for extra stability. While not likely the fastest, most aggressive Corvette ever, it is definitely one of the best designed cars of the C5 era without question. Known as “Mr. Corvette” for his landmark efforts to improve Chevrolet’s first sports car, Guldstrand was equal parts clever engineer, ingenious designer, innovative builder, tenacious driver, wry jokester and dapper gentleman. His career would ultimately span more than six decades. Dick Guldstrand was Penske Racing’s first driver, hired after Roger Penske himself retired. Guldstrand successfully help to launch Penske Racing with a victory in its first big race, the 1966 24 Hours of Daytona. After he helped prep the car, he managed — despite his co-driver crashing it badly — to nurse the battered Corvette home to a class victory and ninth overall.“I will always remember the great job Dick did for us,” Penske said. “This was our first race and a significant achievement in the history of Penske Racing.”“I will always remember the great job Dick did for us in applying his chassis expertise to set up our Grand Sport Corvette,” Penske said. “Throughout his career, Dick was a true innovator in suspension engineering; and he deserved to be called ‘Mr. Corvette.’” From Penske, Guldstrand was hired to race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a 1967 L88 with Bob Bondurant and Don Yenko. When the trailer they’d planned to transport the L88 from Paris to Le Mans failed to show up, Guldstrand and Bondurant drove the full-blown race car 125 miles on public roads to the track. He recalled that it raised quite a ruckus, with crowds growing along the route as the noisy Americans’ progress was telegraphed ahead. Beginning in 1963, the racing and development exploits of Dick Guldstrand became the stuff of legends. From 1963-1965, he won three consecutive SCCA Pacific Coast Championships, including the Southern Pacific A/P Championship in 1964, the same year he was named the California Sports Car Club Driver of the Year. In 1966, Guldstrand won the GT-class at the Daytona 24-hour race, and finished 9th overall. Later that year, he was named President of the Southern California Drivers Association. The following year, he raced at Le Mans and set a track record in the GT-class while leading the race for 13 hours. In both 1966 and 1967, Guldstrand drove the legendary Grand Sport Corvette at the 12 hours of Sebring for Roger Penske. In 1968, Guldstrand opened his own business, Guldstrand Engineering Inc., in Culver City, California. Soon, he was designing and building high performance cars for competition throughout North America, South America, and Western Europe. The following year he built and campaigned a Z-28 Camaro in South America, winning the South American Championship. In the early 1970s, Guldstrand Engineering Inc. built 70% of all the Chevrolet-powered road racing cars on the West Coast. Dick Guldstrand played an enormous role in the development and testing of the 1985 Corvette. He set new track records at the Mid-Ohio 24 hours, finishing both 1st and 2nd overall. He also set new track records at the 12 hours at Willow Spring for enduro cars, once again finishing 1st and 2nd overall. His personal involvement, along with his GSS race team, set the stage for the future racing series, as well as Corvette’s domination of Porsche cars for the first time in fifteen years. The following year, he built and set up the Guldstrand 1986 Corvette, which made a clean sweep of all events at the SCCA National Solo Championships. Later that year, Guldstrand developed his high performance dream car, the GS-80. Articles about the GS-80 have appeared in virtually every automotive magazine, and the car has received world acclaim. It was set against such high performance cars in Europe as the Testarrossa, Countach, and Porsche Turbo. Then in 1987, Guldstrand, driving a 1956 Corvette in the Vintage Race series, won the 75th Anniversary of Chevrolet at Monterey, California. The legend of Dick Guldstrand only grew more. Dick Guldstrand epitomizes the “All American Corvette Enthusiast”, a devoted and loyal fan of the Corvette. See More: https://www.facebook.com/Guldstrand-Performance-571820452892245/photos/?ref=page_internal

Price: 189.95 USD

Location: Dallas, Texas

End Time: 2024-04-30T21:17:54.000Z

Shipping Cost: 18 USD