Rozelle 1965 Corvette Build

[Peter Mc Mahon]

I love those cars, even the flares. One of the best looking cars ever made IMO. Good luck with the build, may the good deal gods shine on you.

[JakeR.]

Thanks guys!

Brett it is ready for AMP now, I just need the time to make it there! This thread is behind our actual progress. It actually edged out our Camaro by a couple tenths at the last autocross and has a lot more in it with some more development. The Camaro was on a destroyed set of tires which definitely hurt it but it's still impressive.

So in the interest of catching up to where the car is now, here's the next update installment:

Since the car hadnt run in nearly 35 years I'm sure most of you know what came next. Draining the fuel, rebuilding the carb, etc. Included in the process of getting the car back running and driving was upgrading to the Wilwood disc brakes kit for these cars, 6 piston front calipers and 4 piston rears. The conversion made sense to do since the stock calipers needed rebuilding and we knew a brake upgrade would be coming sooner or later so no need to waste money on the stock stuff. Those stock calipers were heavy too! We didn't bother with a bigger rotor than stock as the short autocross runs this car will see will not require it and it would only add cost and unsprung weight.

Don’t worry, since this photo was taken I’ve sanded this all down and painted it so its nice and clean, you'll see all that later.


To clear the bigger brakes and replace the probably oblonged rims and cracked tires the car came with, we picked up a used set of Vintage Wheel Works V40s from CarlC and put on our tire of choice the Falken RT615K. They were pretty dirty in these pics from sitting in storage but they cleaned up nice with a little work.




With the car back on the road we enjoyed it in stock form for the majority of the summer while we focused on our camaro.