[Big Dave]

The Corvette conversion still hangs out there.

It has a lot of things going for it. First and foremost there are a lot of salvage title ‘Vettes that can be had for reasonable money. These are body-on-frame cars and the frame has to be really badly bent to preclude repair. Also by saving a ‘Vette from the Pick-A-Part, you have done the equivalent of saving a sick Tennessee Coon Hound from the pound. ‘Vette have big engine compartments and a divorced transmission setup (on C5 and C6 cars) and that gives you a lot of choices of engines. The T-56 transmission has an awesome overdrive ratio.

They are relatively light, streamlined cars (compared to sedans and pickups at any rate) and should give outstanding results. Yeah, there are aero improvements that can be made and no doubt you could lighten it somewhat. The 18 and 19 inch wheels might be a problem finding really low RR tire for. There are scads of aftermarket parts for ‘Vettes that could help out such a project.