1988 Corvette Challenge Car - Shawn Hendricks
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1988 Corvette Challenge Car #76
Driven by: Shawn Hendricks
Corvette Challenge Car #65 - driven by Shawn Hendricks

#76 Corvette Challenge Car documented history and specs:

Car number: 76 Car Color: White
Sponsor: n/a Driver: Shawn Hendricks of Piedmont, SC & Peter Cunningham

Previous owners:

Current owner: Ed Foss (selling the car 10/18/09) n/a - current

Race history:
Dallas
Sears Point
Riverside
Portland
Brainerd
Meadowlands
Mid Ohio
Road America
Mosport
St. Pete
Finish
8
9
6
10
7
16
10
3
4
25
Start
31
8
14
19
10
13
14
2
8
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Driver
 Cunningham
Cunningham
Cunningham
Cunningham
Cunningham
Cunningham
Cunningham
Cunningham
Cunningham
Cunningham
Car Status
Running
Running
Running
Running
Running
Running
Running
Running
Running
-
Laps Comp.
42
25
39
35
25
50
27
22
16
-
Qual. Time
1:9.049
1:54.117
1:33.869
1:24.996
1:56.698
0:55.162
1:48.127
2:42.885
1:38.802
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Purse
$1750
$1500
$2500
$1200
$2000
$750
$1200
$5000
$4000
-

A few words about the car from the current owner:

1988 Corvette Challenge Car #76.  Corvette built 56 legal corvettes for the ten races in 1988 for the SCCA Corvette Challenge race series.  Engines, stock but matched for power output, were built at the Flint engine plant, sealed and shipped to Bowling Green for standard assembly.  The cars weren't built in sequence because the Corvette plant built in color batches.  During the season most engines were exchanged by Chevrolet for new, sealed engines with more evenly calibrated power output.

Fifty identical Chevrolet Corvettes will compete in a $1 million Sports Car Club of America challenge race with showroom stock 1988 models.  The 10-event series is expected to find some of America's best roadracers competing for the biggest showroom stock purse in the history of SCCA.  The 50 Corvette Challenge series cars will be identical to all other 1988 Corvettes except for the roll bars, racing seats and other safety equipment.  Production engines have been built, tested and sealed so that all competition is on an equal basis.

Driver: Peter Cunningham, Milwaukee, WI    

Car delivered to Valley Chevrolet                                                                                                  

Original Engine #: 1J5113483  #61

Protofab #: 157-012

Dealer code: #02-185

Entrant: MPS Motorsports

Sponsor: Mobil 1

Other interesting facts:

Car was sold by Bob McDormott in '09 at the Mecum Auction.

Car was being sold on Ebay on 10/18/09 by Ed Foss.

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