The 1969 Chevy Corvette arrived on the coattails of critics who had been anything but kind to the inaugural C3 Corvette just the year before. This car was one of the four early open-chamber heads that GM put out just prior to the public release of this option.
by Andrew Nabors. As the Greenwood car was being introduced, there was THUNDER. But, in 1971, Bob Esseks moved over to the Trans-Am series and, in an unrelated move, John Paul, Sr. gave up racing and went sailing for a couple of years. ... Corvette’s top engine option for 1969 was 435 hp, and it featured three two-barrel carburetors. But the L88 was advertised at 430 hp and arrived with a single four-barrel Holley. Greenwood Corvettes is an American automotive performance tuning and racing company specializing in Corvette sportscars and race cars founded by automotive enthusiasts and professional race car drivers, American brothers Burt and John Greenwood.. The aerodynamic lines of America’s original sports car make it the one automobile nobody mistakes for anything else. We have the best prices and we have all the parts and accessories you need to help you restore your 1969 Corvette. Corvette Report’s K.Scott Teeters watched the auction last night online and describes the ground-pounding entrance of the former Le Mans racers to the block: The Greenwood #49 1969 427 ZL-1 B.F. Goodrich Corvette was the 44th car to go on the block. Casey Putsch follows up with Sam Every who is restoring the 1969 Greenwood-bodied Corvette race car named “Sluggy” that won 97 races while driven by Bill Wessel aka “Snoopy.” Sam was one of many who applied for the chance to buy the car for $5,000. History of John Greenwood Corvettes - Racing and Custom Street Cars Although the overall tone of the critics was marginally more positive by the end of the 1968 model year, GM recognized that there was still a way to go to fully win over the same people who were so quick to tear the Corvette apart. Casey Putsch of the not-for-profit Genius Garage in Toledo, Ohio, is offering a 1969 Greenwood-bodied Corvette C3 race car, known as “Sluggy,” that has more than 90 SCCA, IMSA and Trans-Am victories in the hands of Bill “Snoopy” Wessell for a paltry $5,000… But there is a caveat. This 1969 Chevrolet Corvette is said to be a matching-numbers 427/automatic equipped car, and is wearing what appears to be a period Greenwood Sportwagon shooting brake conversion kit. This 1969 Chevrolet Corvette was built into a Greenwood-bodied race car in the 1970s and is believed to have been campaigned in 1975 as a Greenwood team car driven by Rick Mancuso and Burt Greenwood. September 21, 2016. It was purchased in 1976 by driver Art Siri, who raced it through 1979 in the SCCA, where it continued to compete with two other body configurations through 1988. The Greenwood #49 1969 427 ZL-1 B.F. Goodrich Corvette was the 44th car to go on the block. Last night the 1969 ZL-1 Greenwood Stars and Stripes Corvette that was campaigned at Sebring, Daytona and Le Mans crossed the auction block at RM’s Monterey auction. Cars 100 to 143 were”pushed” up and on to the turntable. Location: Portland, Oregon, 97227 Stock #: 33-1008 VIN #: 33-1008 Transmission: Manual Seller’s Description: This 1969 Chevrolet Corvette was built into a Greenwood-bodied race car in the 1970s and is believed to have been campaigned in 1975 as a Greenwood team car driven by Rick Mancuso and Burt Greenwood.
Corvette’s top engine option for 1969 was 435 hp, and it featured three two-barrel carburetors.