468 cu. in. Chevrolet dry-sump V-8 racing engine, L-88 aluminum open-chamber cylinder heads and intake, custom-modified racing carburetor, Muncie M-22 close-ratio four-speed manual transmission, four-wheel independent racing suspension, and four-wheel hydraulic disc brakes with dual master cylinders. Wheelbase: 98"

- A highly successful SCCA/IMSA vintage racing Corvette

- Recent concours-level restoration; freshly rebuilt 468 V-8/M-22 transmission

- The 1977 SCCA Central Division A-Production National Champion

- Bloomington Gold Historic Award and Road & Track Concours winner

This Corvette racing car carries a very interesting history, having started its life as a "body in white" that was given to long-running American road racer Bill Morrison for conversion into an all-out SCCA racing entry via Morrison’s friend and noted Corvette racer Tony DeLorenzo, who had strong connections at Chevrolet. Like so many other rising SCCA drivers, Morrison started with Triumph TR3s and TR4s in the early 1960s, progressed to a purpose-built Cooper Monaco and moved into a thundering L-88 Corvette by the late 1960s. From time to time, Morrison and De Lorenzo drove each other’s Corvettes at such tracks as Watkins Glen, Road America and Talladega.

Along with Chuck West, Morrison built the Corvette with a number of racing-specific parts and supplies provided by Tony De Lorenzo. In fact, some of the parts on this car originated from the Budd Corporation-sponsored Corvette that De Lorenzo campaigned in period until it was lost in a fire at a Pontiac, Michigan street-circuit race.

While factory Corvette performance declined by 1973, the expertise gained from many years of all-out competition development kept the Corvette at the forefront of racing, particularly when powered by Chevrolet’s mammoth 454 V-8. Corvettes like Bill Morrison’s were particularly effective on tracks with long straight-aways including Road America, Daytona and Sebring, and Tony DeLorenzo, who drove this car with a 454 at Talladega, was impressed. He said, "Billy's nickel rocket was quite something; we had to be doing 200 plus. That's when we knew that the Budd car had to be a 454." De Lorenzo also drove this car at the Road America Trans-Am race in 1976.

Big-block C3 Corvettes, exemplified by this car, continued to dominate American road racing (SCCA and IMSA) throughout the 1970s and well into the 1980s. In all, the Bill Morrison Corvette entered 23 SCCA Trans-Am races and chalked up several Top-10 finishes, culminating in the 1977 SCCA Central Division A-Production National Championship. It also won the 1977 June Sprints with Bill Morrison driving and held the Road America A-Production lap record until the end of the 1978 season. In addition to Morrison and De Lorenzo, the Corvette was driven in IMSA events by its co-builder, Chuck West.

Following the end of its period racing career, the Corvette continued its winning ways in vintage racing by winning the BRIC Group 6 race at Road America in 1998. It posted its best lap times at Road America with a small-block engine at 2:25 and a time of 2:23 with a fuel-injected big-block. On the show field, the Corvette won its class at both the 2000 and 2010 editions of the Road & Track Concours d'Elegance. On June 22, 2001, the Corvette received the Bloomington Gold Historic Award.

Most recently, the Corvette received a complete, concours-quality restoration, with mechanicals including a fresh 468 cu. in. dry-sump racing engine and a freshly rebuilt Muncie M-22 transmission. A complete list of the mechanical components accompanies the car’s sale as well. Totally rebuilt and period correct, the Bill Morrison Corvette is ready to legally run at the front of any vintage-racing event today. It is also offered complete with photographic documentation from its original delivery as a body in white to the present, plus full documentation of its exciting racing history.