The C5 generation Corvette has become an affordable enthusiast car, but it’s also known for being a handful with its 5.7-liter V8 driving the rear wheels. The hydroformed box frame chassis is stiff, and the composite fiberglass body panels are more robust than commonly believed, but the safety features are genuinely old-school or nonexistent.
The base C5 Corvette arrived with 345 horsepower and increased to 350 hp in 2001. At the same time, the C5 generation’s Z06 trim arrived with 385 hp, later increased to 405 hp.
This doesn’t look like a Z06, but there’s one less road-going C5 Corvette out there, that’s for sure.