The Corvette Stingray was a privately funded concept car that formed a basis for the second generation Corvette Sting Ray. The Stingray racer-concept car was designed by Pete Brock the youngest designer to work at GM at that time, Bill Mitchell, GM Vice President of styling, and Larry Shinoda in 1957. The basis of the Stingray was the 1957 Corvette SS, an engineering test mule chassis for the creation of an official Chevrolet race effort culminating with the 24 Hours of LeMans. Soon after its race debut, the Automobile Manufacturers Association banned manufacturer-sponsored racing, and the... SS had been relegated to test track duty. The Stingray exists today with a 327-cubic-inch , fuel-injected V-8 of 375 hp . The Stingray used elements of the still-born Q-Corvette design study as well as the SS underpinnings, featuring a 92-inch wheelbase. The new car was exceptionally light, with a dry weight of 2,200 pounds, nearly 1,000 lb lighter than a 1960 production car. Its fuel-injected small-block 283-cubic-inch V-8 engine produced 315 horsepower at 6,200 rpm.
more