Doug Bethke’s 1973 Corvette

Here’s a different video I made at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY.

According to Roadandtrack.com (link to article is below) this savage beast of a race car with flared fenders emerging from first pit garage is the focus of all attention. This 1973 Corvette looks like it's ready to mutilate anything that gets in its way. Paul Newman's hopes of winning the 1982 SCCA GT1 National Championship in the Runoffs were actually dashed by it. The Corvette, driven and promoted by Doug Bethke, won the SCCA championship in both 1981 and 1982. With 390 horsepower, it easily defeated the Triumphs and Datsuns lining up in opposition.

The Corvette was purchased by Leon Hurd after he gave up club racing and ran it with the SVRA during the 1990s before giving it to the National Corvette Museum in 2005. You can visit and observe it there; even when at rest, the large roadster exudes danger. The museum occasionally decides to put it through some workout, which is why on a 29-degree Kentucky morning it is rattling the pavement and readily vaporizing its vintage Hoosier slicks the moment the clutch is engaged.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/a28067326/new-face-of-vintage-racing-dodge-neon-acr/

Soundtrack credit is at the end of the video. The song is Banana Float by Six Umbrellas. This song is used under a Creative Commons License (link below) and the song is found at Free Music Archive (link below).

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Six_Umbrellas/if-bliss-was-possible/banana-float-1/

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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