| Greenwood's 1974 Spirit of New
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John Greenwood's success led to assistance from Zora and others
at GM in designing, testing and building race cars. In 1974 this was one
of three built. The dominance of the Porsche factory teams was broken in
1974-1975 season Greenwood Corvettes qualified first in 11 events, beating
all factory entries. Regretfully, transmission failures from the ZL-1's
enormous torque prevented total success. |
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In 1974 they used stock Corvette frames, modified and reinforced
with 2 inch ladder style roll cages. This was the first of the "stock-framed,
flat side, open-flared, wide body GT race cars". |
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The owner of this beauty, Greg Sullivan was freshening up
the under hood area. Note the Cross Ram FI designed by Greenwood. Greg told
me these would develop 100 more HP and torque than the factory built CanAm
motors that were Chevrolet built and tuned. |
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Note the frame is notched for the exhaust pipe. The gaps on
the door and fender are all within NCRS parameters. See Section V, Subsection
74, paragraph ZL1. |
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The rear view mirrors are mounted higher than normal, because
the bodies sat lower on the frame than stock Corvettes. |
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The cockpit was fresh, clean and professionally assembled. |
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The owner gave me a close view when he had the hood removed.
Thankfully I did not damage it as I came near to stepping on the edge. |
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