You’ll never drive a real one. Chevrolet only built five original Corvette Grand Sport race cars back in the early 1960s. The last time one sold, it reportedly fetched $5,000,000 and that was in 2009. You can drive one of these though; this is Superformance Corvette Grand Sport.
Superformance has the full rights to build these licensed continuation cars, which are basically the same deal as the original Grand Sports. The good news on these cars, however, is that you can choose from one of eight available engines offered up through the GM Performance Parts catalog. We sampled two versions of the car; one with a modern LT1 making 460 horsepower and the other with a Lingenfelter-prepped LS3 producing 500 horsepower. Both versions are loud, aggressive, and in your face.
If we had the dough, we’d happily take a Superformance Grand Sport over any modern supercar. You can be shouty in a Lamborghini, but you’re shouty and you get it when you do so in this vintage racing machine… that just so happens to be brand new.