World Challenge Race Car

RIPPIE'S WORLD CHALLENGE CAR

Hi race fans,

Our C5 World Challenge car is nearing completion. Pictured below is what it looked like when we purchased it from GM. Now it's ready for its body work and driver Scotty B. White to make a mark in the series.

Some interesting facts about this C5 chassis is that GM has made only 20 units in total and sold all of them for $20,000 each. This whole idea came about because Doug and Dave Hill, the C5 Corvette Chief Engineer, sat down last September at the Bowling Green event and came up with the idea of an inexpensive Corvette that would be purpose built for racing so you wouldn't need to take a brand new car and strip it down. Thus this chassis, drive train and engine was offered to the public on a limited basis

GT3 rolls out at GM
Here is Chassis #13 of 20, as it rolls out of the GM facility in Michigan.

GT3 Chassis on display
The chassis was originally on display at Bob Ryan Chevrolet in Buffalo Minnesota.

05/08/00 Final preparation for test day on 05/09/00 at Blackhawk Farms Raceway in Illinois. Car seen here sitting on scales fully balanced and only one week away from the Speedvision World Challenge race at Mosport International Raceway in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada.