More on the Grand Sport

["G.S.Sutherland" <G.S.Sutherland@phil.hull.ac.uk>]

        I checked up a few details on the Corvette Grand Sport over the
weekend, and discovered the following: 

(1)     The Grand Sports are slightly smaller than a normal Sting Ray. 
This was done in an attempt to reduce the car's huge drag. 

(2)     The origional engine was meant to be 400ci, but had its stroke
reduced to lower it to 377ci to aid combustion (I think). 

(3)     The chassis was a lightweight ladder chassis, not a space-frame. 

(4)     Of the five cars built, two were rebodied into roadsters. All the 
cars still survive.

                Graeme