Lingenfelter 383 LT4 Grand Sport 1996 Corvette

As discussed at length in our December '05 issue, the '96 Grand Sport was a unique Corvette. Externally, the GS paid reverence to the Grand Sports from 1963. The car bore an Admiral Blue paint job with a wide white stripe covering the middle of the hood, roof, and rear portion of the body and included a pair of red hash marks placed over the left front fender. Red was used on the '96 GS as a styling cue to tie the two generations together. Unique Grand Sport badging was placed on each side of the hood above the side-fender vents, and a unique chrome-plated Corvette emblem was placed on the nose and gas lid. Interior color choices for the Grand Sport were limited to all black or a unique Torch Red and black combination, with red seats and trim and black carpeting with the Grand Sport name embroidered on the seat headrests. All Grand Sport coupes used ZR-1-style, five-spoke rims with 275/40ZR17 rubber on the front and 315/35ZR17 on the rear. With all this rubber on the car, GM had to find a way to legally get the tires inside the wheelwells, so they decided to use an offset wheel and European flares already in the GM parts bin. More...