Boerup told Road & Track that the C6 stands as his favorite late-model Vette, owing in part to his past experience with the Z06 variant at the Bondurant Racing School in Phoenix, Arizona.

The idea for a Corvette-shaped tube chassis with a Chevy-sourced powertrain came next, with Boerup specifically hoping for a potent C6-sourced engine. “I knew it was going to be a C6 ...