Moonshot

Moonshot

The 1960s were an unusual time for car makers in America. In an era before serious governmental regulation, designers had very few restraints to work around and thus could make cars that look somewhat futuristic even now, more than fifty years later.

The technologies available to manufacturers were rapidly expanding as well with things like fuel injection and disc brakes being offered on production cars. Despite all this freedom of design and new technology, the labyrinthine and often inscrutable nature of the corporate culture at GM often stifled real innovation, except when it came to the Corvette. The venerable ‘Vette served as a testbed for things to come on the General’s more pedestrian offerings and the Corvette program’s spiritual advisor and biggest proponent, Zora Arkus-Duntov, made sure that it was always on the bleeding edge of technology. The culmination of this ethos was the failed homologation of the now legendary Corvette Grand Sport. Until now, the incredible Grand Sport has been beyond the reach of all but the wealthiest collectors but thanks to Superformance and their excellent continuation model Grand Sport, those of us with more modest means can now know what it felt like to mat the throttle on one of these incredible machines.