2005 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe

This 2005 Chevy Corvette was used for development on race tracks such as VIR, Homestead Speedway, Spring Mountain, Moroso Motorsports Park, and Roebling Road. The car started life as a 2005 Corvette Manufacturing Validation Build and is VIN 61 of the 2005 model year. It was originally built with a 4-speed automatic and 400 horsepower LS2 engine. It was re-built into a 2006 6-speed automatic for engineering development purposes and later into a 2008 Corvette 6-speed automatic powertrain and stability systems to work with the 2008 430 HP LS3 engine.

The car has a ride height of .075 inches, fabricated roof rack to hold one spare front tire and two 5-gallon jugs of premium unleaded, Plexiglas stone deflectors for the windshield, and zillion-candle-power auxiliary lights.

This car is precision red in color which is a red that was only available for the first half of the 2005 model year, which is also the first year of the Sixth Generation Corvette.