Letters.(Letter to the Editor)

That's racin'

For what it's worth, I picked up Grand Sport chassis No. 2 from Zora Duntov in Detroit at the mentioned "shadowy Corvette Racing headquarters'' (AW, Dec. 1). It was a roadster then, painted a bluish silver. That was the car I raced in 1966 with some success in the USRRC. Duntov said this particular car had never left GM. Roger Penske had the other roadster (chassis No. 1), which ran in '66 at Sebring.

I previously owned coupe chassis No. 5, which I bought from Penske in 1964 right after he drove it in his next-to-last race at Nassau. I drove it in the enduro race at Nassau that year, then Peter Goetz and I drove it to 12th overall at the "Great Rain'' Sebring 12 Hour in 1965.

As to the sixth chassis-no knowledge.

George Wintersteen, via e-mail

I've been in love with the Corvette Grand Sports since I saw a how-to-build-one article in Model Car & Track magazine in about 1965. Finding out that a Grand Sport was burned into a puddle of aluminum was really a shock. No race car deserves to be destroyed because of political corporate stupidity. I wish you could dig a little further to find out which moron gave the order.

Mike Gehrke, Milwaukee