The C2 Crosses the finish line

In 2004, Sports Car International named the Sting Ray number five on the list of Top Sports Cars of the 1960’s. The design of this generation had many inspirations. The first was the Jaguar E-Type, another inspiration was a mako shark that Mitchell had caught while deep-sea fishing.

In 1961 the Corvette finally sold over 10,000 vehicles per year, hitting a number of 10,947 in that production year. In 1962 Corvette chief engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov came up with a lightweight version of the C2.

Interestingly enough the Z06 performance package on the C5 and C6 model Corvettes is named after a Z06 performance option dating back to the 1963 model year.