What Ever Happened to the 1965 Corvette Race Car?

You will remember “Operation Corvette Rescue” from about one year ago. 

           Operation Corvette Rescue

You might ask, “What happened to that cool 1965 Corvette Race Car?  Here is an update:

The car is a 1965 Corvette roadster that participated in SCCA racing in the late 60’s and early 70’s in the “B Production” class. The car raced at Laguna Seca, Riverside and other tracks in Southern California and Arizona. Originally owned by Dr. Bruce Halpert, the car is decorated in a red-white-and-blue color scheme. It last competed as Number 18 fielded by Ron Leahey Enterprises. The car had been in storage off and on for about 12 years until it was purchased by Joe Hofman of San Diego.  Joe has spent the past year restoring the car to its SCCA racing heyday.  Some parts of the car were in pretty rough shape.  Joe spent lots of time researching the car’s racing heritage, talking to other Corvette racers, and restoring the car to full racing form. The car has its original paint scheme and the red color may be the original paint!  Look at the workmanship of the rolling Chassis!

The result of all his efforts culminated in the car’s acceptance to participate in this year’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, August 15-18.  The photo below was taken at Button Willow race track at the end of June, 2013.  Joe will also be racing the Corvette at Road America this month (July) where there is a Corvette Celebration and lots of racers.

You can see that the car is immaculate in every detail.  Nice job Joe!