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The Steve Korney Stone-Woods-Cooke 1969 Corvette Blown Gasser


This is a gallery of photos showing the Steve Korney owned Stone Woods and Cooke AA/GS 1969 Corvette. The car was match raced through the country in the 1970s and ran in the low 8-second range. -

By the early 1970s the new generation of gassers used modern bodies, many of which didn't have operational doors. The cars were essentially turning into gasoline burning funny cars. The catch? Somewhere deep down in their tube chassis were stock frame rails from the mini-cars that launched the class. In the case of this Corvette, those frame rails were from an Anglia, merely there as a token to appease the rules.

In early 1970, Korney had the Anglia's chassis modified and tin-work redone to accept the 1969 Corvette funny car body you see in these photos. The car is scary simple. Many detractors of the time called these flip-up body gassers something along the lines of "slow gasoline funny cars." The construction of the car is actually that. It looks like an even more simplified Logghe Brothers funny car chassis. There's lots of room to flop around in the cockpit and very little tubing around it.

As class rules called for two "seats" in the car, you'll note that there are two sheet metal seats grafted between the two rear tires. Aside from the steering wheel, a shifter, and a few gauges, there's nothing else in the driver's area. We're guessing that Korney was a tall dude because the gas pedal is in a very strange position on the far side of the transmission hump and almost into the right header bank of the engine.

Good for 8.30-8.40-second elapsed times, the Corvette was powered by a gasoline burning 392 Hemi topped with a Hilborn four port injector and Hampton blower. The rear end looked like a Dana 60 at a quick glance and the transmission we're going to stab at being a Torqueflite.







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