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Member ID: 19660427

Location: Edgewater, Florida

Vehicle Info

1966 Chevrolet Corvette

Bragging Rights

  • 1/4 Mile9.9 sec @ 143 mph Verified!
  • 0-601.4 sec
  • Top Speed180 mph
  • HP825
  • Weight3120 lbs
  • SPL98 dB

Major Upgrades

  • port and polish
  • stroke-increase
  • nitrous
  • engine swap
  • bore-increase
  • supercharger

Ratings

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Last updated: May 13, 2008

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Glenn E. Smith’s Chevrolet Corvette:
“Love Is Blue”

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"Love Is Blue" Glenn's 1966 Pro Street Vette -- Please Rate my vehicle & sign guestbook with thoughts.

ADDITIONAL PAGE CONTENTS:
Page#2: Construction Of 'Love Is Blue'
Page#3: Interior & Sound
Page#4: Parts Fabrication & Installation - HARD PARTS
Page#5: The Early Years Of My 1966 Corvette
Page#6: Trips & Journey Taken In 'Love'
Page#7: Other Corvettes I've Built Over The Years
Page#8: Cheesecake Photos w/ 'Love Is Blue'

Even MORE new photos posted and additional storyline near the bottom of this page & on other pages! Including the latest photos from the Russian Magazine "Auto Tune" with "LOVE IS BLUE" filling the entire cover!! (Below)






Front tires: Yokohama AVS 345/35/ZR15 "custom blue lines" on Centerline Convo Pro 12"X15"
Rear tires: Hoosier Pro Street Radials 29X18.50R15 on 15"X15" Convo Pros by Centerline.

Now wrapped in a full custom home built body, designed, built & painted by me. The front & rear clips lift off of the mild steel tube space frame chassis built by Mike Loescher of Finish Line Racing. Sporting a 468cu.in. iron big block with Big Brodix 2 aluminum heads, custom pistons & Carrillo 'H' beam steel rods, Comp Cam solid lifter roller cam, backed by a JW Performance 'built' Turbo 400 trans w/ reverse manual valve body controlled by a B&M Mega shifter. A Ford 9" rear end with Strange center section & 31 spline axles, 3:50-1 gears, Tru Track locker, held in place by a 5 bar link, Koni/Eibach coil over setup.

Let me show you my life's labor of LOVE.

Check out the video of this 'Stomp & Go'!!


Don't fight the crowds! Enjoy a detailed history of my car in the comfort of your home. There are 8 pages currently with almost 800 photos to enjoy.

My wife, Kat, helping to clean it up for another showtime.



Gainesville Dragstrip 1994. Exhibition passes.

1989 - 2008: Still racing many years later!

Speed World Dragway - Orlando, Florida - January 2007
Unloading in the pits

Suited up & ready to race again @ age 62. 40 years of drag racing and still going.

Sitting in the long staging lane, checking the gauges prior to a shakedown run.

Water box & staging.

Note the wrinkle on the sidewall on the right photo.


Back again at Speed World Dragway in Orlando, Florida - May 2008!

The old 3x2 bbls set up (L) 1992 to 2004, vs. the new 2X4 BG 750 Mighty Demon set up below.


'Jiffy Tite' quick release fuel fittings & Moroso fuel pressure log.

Nitrous Express Fuel Rails. SIAS exhaust gas probe sensors in the headers & Taylor 10.4mm "409" Spiro Pro Race Wires.

Custom addition to the rear of the 'Shot Gun Bill' scoop I had made that holds the boost & fuel pressure gauges.

Rear of the vette topless (as it usually is) on left. On right, with emergency canvas top on. 1989 Ford Tempo taillights. 4 Suppertrapp SS mufflers, now without the diffusers. NHRA mandated master kill switch is located left of tag area.



Underside shows the four tube, 2-1/2" stainless steel exhaust system (w/ crossovers to all four pipes and unique NASCAR inspired four-across flat collector for extra ground clearance I designed and had built.) (The 'G-Force Street Fighter' 5 speed is now replaced with a JW built Turbo 400).

The air tubes pick up the high pressure air under the car and exits it out the top vents, thus applying down force without spoilers. A big thanks to John Greenwood (IMSA driver & 24 hr Daytona winner) for his suggestion on this design idea. It really worked up to 180 mph, but that's where I lost my nerve!


Eric Christensen, owner of BNO, setting up 'our' baby for a trial break-in run on the dyno. He builds my engines, dyno tunes them, and maintaines the Strange rear end parts.


BNO Performance Automotive & Dyno Shop, Located at: 2427 Guava Dr., Edgewater, Fla. 32141 Phone: (386) 427-0390


MCCI/JET HOT, thermal, ceramic coated, headers. The thermal probes from SIAS. Pete was a really cool person to work with & is into drag cars.

Shifter holds the line lock button. The 'D' shaped steering wheel holds the nitrous & purge buttons! 10lb. Halon fire system in pass door. SIAS manual exhaust gas temp switch & gauge in center console. Military style flip up switches to control the various electrical systems such as fuel pumps, water pumps, nitrous, fans, etc.

New style seats with latest logos I designed. Time Machines, 9134 Eden Ave., Hudson, Fl., Phone: 1888-869-9577, did the stiching. (see pg.3 for construction of interior & more interior shots)



"I Can't Drive 55" & "Smoke 'Em Till The Wheels Come Off" decals. Childish, but oh, so true.

Anti collision LED brake lights (from a GMC Surburban), built into deck.
Old radiator exhaust vents since replaced with those Fiero grills on right



2 access caps. One is a stock 1966 Corvette lid (opened), used for access to the radiator's filler. The lower cap (w/ the "Love Is Blue" logo) is for filling the 18 gallon custom built fuel cell.

Notice the color difference in the two paint jobs here. Man that House of Kolor Kandy Blue sure pops!
Visible through the grills (L) are the twin custom built aluminum radiators and Spal 12" puller fans built (by Be Cool) later replaced in 2008 with a new set by Tom DeWitts Radiators after I 'ballooned' the 'Be Cool' ones. (Not their fault)

Here is the Koni-Eibach coil over combination along with the C-4 front suspension (that I sanded and polished) and the Ford 9" rear with all the radiator housing and fuel cell removed.

Rear body clip being lifted off the car and resting on it's specially built rack.

Mike, owner of Finish Line Racing, built this custom aluminum diamond plate fuel cell. He ALSO built the chassis. Great welding skills, Mike!

Twin Holley Blue pumps and Fram filters (left photo) for separate nitrous & fuel systems before being replace with new Aeromotive units, right.