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This parchment paper art print measures 11" x 17".
Signed & numbered by the artist in a series of 500.
Every print is shrink wrapped on corrugated cardboard so that it stays flat and clean.
A delightful gift for the home or office of that special, hard to buy for Corvette person in your life!
Here's what one of our other prints looks like shrink wrapped.
About the Packing & Shipping We pack all of our prints in a flat cardboard box.
Packages are sent via USPS Priority Mail for speedy delivery.
We will ship world-wide, but rates are based on your location.
For outside the U.S. shipping, e-mail lightoak@comcast.net for a shipping quote and include your name and FULL mailing address.
About the Car On This Print
Here's the story about this car from Scott's monthly column in VETTE Magazine, The Illustrated Corvette Series.
Every generation seems to have its own crop of enthusiasts who aren’t satisfied with the status quo. Even though the godfather of Corvette performance, Zora Arkus-Duntov, made sure Vette buyers had plenty of hot hardware to play with, for some, it still wasn’t enough. Carroll Shelby was the first performance tuner to make a big splash in the muscle car era. And what Shelby did for the Mustang, Joel Rosen did for Chevy fans with his Phase III Supercars. After the performance thaw in the mid-’80s, Reeves Callaway stepped up to provide exhilarating speed-tuned Corvettes for monied enthusiasts. Then, in the mid-to-late ‘90s, two new names surfaced in the specialty-Corvette arena: Chuck and Lance Mallett.
The introduction of the C4 in 1983 ushered in a new era of racing Corvettes that simply dominated their competition. The Vette was so fast, in fact, that it was booted out of the SCCA Showroom Stock Series at the end of the ’88 season. The car came back for ‘89 in the marque-exclusive Corvette Challenge. Chuck Mallett worked as crew chief on several of the Challenge cars and developed an intimate knowledge of how to enhance the performance of the C4. He went on to build the full tube frame and roll cage for Tommy Morrison’s ‘91 Daytona 24-Hour EDS ZR-1. When the C5 was released in 1997, the Mallett brothers were ready to take the already hot new Vette to new levels.
The introduction of the all-aluminum LS1 engine essentially leveled the playing field for small-block-Chevy engine builders. The traditional SBC had a reputation for responding well to modifications, and the LS1 would prove to be no different. With an outstanding new chassis and powerplant to work with, the Mallett brothers, along with partner Dave Sarafian, founded Mallett Cars, Ltd., and started outlining plans for a bumper-to-bumper specialty Corvette. Mercedes had its Hammer; the Corvette world would have a Mallett.
Even a performance car like the Corvette embodies a collection of compromises made to achieve acceptable levels of ride comfort, interior noise, and fuel economy. Specialty-car builders, on the other hand, get to do things the big manufacturers would never dream of trying. It took a year for the Mallett team to sort out its first Mallett package—the 435. It’s a magical number that harkens back to the days of the L71 427. Because of the LS1’s tight bore spacing and iron cylinder liners, boring out the engine for extra cubes was out of the question. But there was room for a .3-inch-longer stroke, enough to bump displacement by 26 ci and yield 372 cubes. Compression was raised to 11:0:1 with Wiseco pistons. The stock LS1 heads were excellent as delivered, needing only minor porting and a set of stiffer springs. The intake tract received a K&N air filter, and the stock exhaust manifolds were used with barrel-type mufflers wrapped in carbon fiber. On the dyno, the modified LS1 produced 435 hp and 450 lb-ft or torque—increases of 90 horses and 100 lb-ft over stock. The factory transaxle was left alone, but the shifter’s rubber bushings were eliminated for improved shift action.
The Z51 suspension option was used because it came with a power-steering-fluid cooler and a larger rear anti-roll bar. The car was lowered 1.25-inches, but the stock springs were kept. A larger front anti-roll bar was installed, along with Penske manually adjustable shocks. Mallett-designed alloy wheels on Goodyear Eagle ZR-S tires and a set of fade-resistant brake pads completed the mechanical mods. “Mallett 435” emblems on the front fenders and headrests wrapped up the package.
So, how well did the performance mods work? Zero-to-60 times were a full second quicker than stock, at 4.1 seconds. Quarter-mile times, meanwhile, plunged from 13.6 seconds at 106 mph to 12.5 at 116. Top speed saw a 17-mph increase over stock, up to 188 mph.
Mallett Corvettes have competed in several One Lap of America competitions, coming in Second overall in 1997. The company went on to offer a line of C5 and C6 performance packages and recently took delivery of an ’09 ZR1 that will get the full Mallett treatment. Could a 250-mph Mallett ZR1 be in the offing? We’ll see.
A Personal Note From the Artist...
I am often asked, how I got into drawing cars. Well, I was one of those guys in school that was always drawing cars on my book covers and along the margins of my notes. When I graduated from Collingswood High School (in Collingswood, NJ), I thought I wanted to be a draftsman. It didn't take long for me to realize that my heart belonged to illustration.
I kept drawing drag racing and muscle cars and in 1975 had my first illustration published in "Drag Racing USA" magazine, and have never stopped.
Eventually, in the early '80s, I went to Philadelphia College of Art and studied illustration. After I put together a portfolio, I began my freelance career. In the early '90s I had the unique opportunity to work in the "Boys Toys" R&D Department at Tyco Toys where I worked on Tyco RC, Tyco HO, Matchbox, and Matchbox Collectibles product lines. Not only did I have receive a first-rate education in product design and development, I worked with some of the most talented and creative people I have ever known.
No, it wasn't like the Tom Hanks movie, "BIG," but I did share many wacky times there.
All along though, I kept my hand in the magazine biz and am currently a contributing artist and writer for "VETTE Magazine". And I now produce a monthly online newsletter called "The Corvette Report" with all kinds of juicy tidbits for the Corvette enthusiast.
I also enjoy researching the best mix of cool gear and art for motorhead enthusiasts of all ages and maintaining and updating the the Corvette Gear eBay store, as well as our other websites that are listed below
Thanks for stopping by and please bookmarks us!
Scott
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Also, you can visit our IllustratedCorvetteSeries.com website where we have hundreds of Corvette art prints from the first Vette in 1953 to today's Corvette. All illustrated by automotive artist, K. Scott Teeters.
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