Lingenfelter’s 60th Anniversary Cunningham Corvette looks cool, sounds better

In the pantheon of modified Corvettes, this just one is truly rather tasteful. It is acquired rather a little bit of historical past at the rear of it, far too.

Confined to 60 models, the sixtieth Anniversary Cunningham Corvette commemorates the 1962 Cunningham C4R and C4RK Le Mans race automobiles and Cunningham C3 grand-touring sports activities automobiles, with a vaguely identical livery consisting of a white human body with unique blue accents on the side blades, unusual fender-mounted intakes, racing stripes (while they do glimpse black in the picture higher than) and swan-neck(ish) wing that wears the selection three. There are also red trim accents entrance and rear. The name Cunningham is in honor of Briggs Swift Cunningham, a mid-century racing legend and crew proprietor of those aforementioned automobiles. 

Technically, this automobile springs forth from longtime Corvette tuner Lingenfelter. Formally, Cunningham is a separate enterprise “proven to create new autos and automotive aftermarket components. Precisely, sophisticated ceramic braking parts, which (it is) now establishing as (it) transitions to turn into an all-electric car producer.” So, this is both a Lingenfelter and it is a Cunningham. I was confused far too, whichever.

Here’s what you get. Each individual sixtieth Anniversary Cunningham Corvette is a 3LT trim package deal automobile. The C8 Corvette’s six.2-liter V8 is tuned by Lingenfelter to “600+” horsepower and involves a carbon fiber intake manifold, and Corsa Activity tuned headers and airbox. The exhaust is upgraded to a Corsa Activity unit, which you can listen to in all its glory in the video under. The Z51 suspension with magnetic dampers is upgraded by Lingenfelter to “Effectiveness Road/Monitor configurations), when the common 19-inch entrance/20-inch rear wheels are replaced with bespoke cast aluminum HRE wheels enlarged to 20/21 inches. They glimpse a tad plasticky, but they’re also modeled on the racing Halibrand Kidney Bean wheels employed on the original 1960 Le Mans-profitable Cunningham Corvettes. They were being Michelin Pilot Activity 4S rubber with Alcon brakes lurking inside. The Z51 spoiler is replaced by Cunningham’s swan-neck-glimpse wing as part of its greater aero package deal by Peter Stevens Structure.

The automobile has the Corvette’s Stress Blue/Twilight Blue interior solution with Competitiveness Activity seats … at minimum in the higher than shots. A picture of just one of those seats out of the automobile shows just one solely upholstered in a blue that matches the exterior accents. 

Each and every automobile will be numbered (XX of 60 is even embroidered on the seat backs) and the VIN entered into the Cunningham Registry, which is fantastic seemingly. All will dress in the selection three, even though, so if you are a major Jeff Gordon enthusiast and would prefer a 24, far too terrible.

To be just one of the fortunate 60, you will require to put down $five,000. The purchase cost is then $159,995, which is just a wee little bit extra than the 3LT’s base cost of $72,945. But hey, Cunningham throws in a commemorative one/18 scale product of an historic Cunningham Le Mans Corvette. 

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