1965 Corvette Racer Tears up Monza and Sounds Amazing Doing It

This Le Mans liveried 1965 Corvette racer looks every bit as good as it sounds in Italy.

While new race cars are obviously much faster around the track than their vintage predecessors, there’s just something special about watching an old racing machine like this 1965 Corvette do its thing. After all, old race cars sound like nothing else, with a visceral and mechanical nature that’s just lacking from today’s high-tech machines. That’s certainly true of this particular C2 and its recent outing at the Monza Circuit in Italy, where it was captured on film by YouTuber 19Bozzy92 as it tore around the track.

The 1965 Corvette was participating in a track day event at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, which is open to a wide variety of vehicles – both road-going and pure track builds, vintage and modern. It obviously stood out from the pack, as we can see here, for some pretty obvious reasons. For starters, it looks like nothing else out there, a red, white, and blue patriotic nod to its country of origin, packing more vintage style than one can shake a stick at.

Unfortunately, not much is known about the specifics of this particular C2 racer. Our host notes that it was most famously driven by Jochen Mass in the RAC TT Celebration race at the 1999 Goodwood Festival of Speed, and apparently won its class at the historic German championship back in the early ’90s not just once, but twice.

Most notably, this C2 is wearing the same 1967 Le Mans livery present on the iconic L88 Corvette at that time. However, it’s powered by something a bit smaller, though arguably no less potent – GM’s 327 cubic-inch small-block V8, which has been built by a company dubbed Traco and is now cranking out somewhere around 500 horsepower.

Most importantly, of course, this thing sounds quite simply amazing, roaring around the track and it also looks every bit as good in the process. And that’s precisely the appeal of vintage racing in general – these cars aren’t nearly as fast as their modern counterparts, but they’re arguably more special, at least to us.

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