Motorweek 1989 - Corvette C4 throwdown

Kinja'd!!! "505Turbeaux" (505turbeaux)
01/30/2014 at 19:28 • Filed to: None

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ZR-1 vs Callaway twin turbo. Both the only C4's I could imagine owning. See who wins

"for the price of a Testarossa...you could have both!"


DISCUSSION (5)


Kinja'd!!! mr. idk > 505Turbeaux
01/30/2014 at 19:33

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No love for the grand sport?


Kinja'd!!! 505Turbeaux > mr. idk
01/30/2014 at 19:44

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I had actually forgotten about that final run. Attractive for sure. Some love!


Kinja'd!!! Flavien Vidal > 505Turbeaux
01/30/2014 at 20:16

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And the Lt1??? It's a great engine too... 305hp/340 lb.ft of pure fun... Believe me, I own one...

The Zr1 is a nice car, but it's VERY expensive to maintain though very reliable if well maintained... The LT1 is much easier to take care of.

Aller, si tu viens a Montréal un jour je te ferai changer d'avis sur les LT1, je te promet ;)


Kinja'd!!! briannutter1 > 505Turbeaux
01/30/2014 at 20:43

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Everybody craps on c4's and old Vette's now, but no one remembers how they more than held their own against their contemporaries.....Japanese and European and Italian. I rode in a Callaway in an autocross in 1993 and it was the first car to tie my stomach in knots as a passenger over it's instantaneous torque and acceleration heading into a 90 degree corner. As much as the c5/6/7 try; they wont get respect simply because they sell 'em too cheap for the tech and development inside (that result in quantifiable numbers). If I drive a c7 z51 at a snails pace to match a Cayman R lap time, is it so "sketchy" then? A ft86 is "alive and exciting" while a Viper is "scary and uncontrollable". Autojournos aren't the manliest lot and I always get hints of loathing in their words against the quarterbacks of the automotive world. Thank god at least for Randy Pobst's relative balance.


Kinja'd!!! TinFoil Knight > mr. idk
02/02/2014 at 07:25

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the gran sport. i gotta go change my jeans now. i'd happily trade all the gold in California for a C4 gran sport like this pic. or even one that has been hooned hard and needed 20 years worth of regular preventative maintenance done in the form of a ground up rebuild before I could drive it, Thanks for starting my Sunday off in a great way.