Callaway Sledgehammer at FunFest 09
09-28-2009, 11:51 PM
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Callaway Sledgehammer at FunFest 09
The rain and lightning were so bad when I got to the show Saturday afternoon that I did not even attempt to go to the field. Looked like attendance was way down. Many folks there said this was in response to MidAmerica charging for the show.
I went there Sunday and had a good time going to the C4 maintenance class put on by Chris Petris and seeing a lot of nice Corvettes.
I wandered over to the Callaway tent and saw this silver Aerobody and was quite intrigued that the engine did not have any runners on the TPI plenum. Wtf!
Then I walked around and looked at it some more. OH YEAH -
What a history and what a great chance to see this car in person!
Enjoy
Oh yeah - the spectator parking was free so I paid nothing to get into the show.
I went there Sunday and had a good time going to the C4 maintenance class put on by Chris Petris and seeing a lot of nice Corvettes.
I wandered over to the Callaway tent and saw this silver Aerobody and was quite intrigued that the engine did not have any runners on the TPI plenum. Wtf!
Then I walked around and looked at it some more. OH YEAH -
What a history and what a great chance to see this car in person!
Enjoy
Oh yeah - the spectator parking was free so I paid nothing to get into the show.
09-29-2009, 12:28 AM
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Melting Slicks
Nice, thanks for sharing
09-29-2009, 03:19 AM
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Awesome pics! The only pics of that car I have ever seen are the old ones from when it first ran, also that one old video documentary of it. I have never seen any current pics, or any close-ups of the engine. I always wanted to know what it looked like under the hood of the fastest C4 ever!
Very interesting how they did that intake!
Very interesting how they did that intake!
09-29-2009, 10:54 AM
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Thank you for sharing your pictures of the Sledgehammer with everyone
Last year, we borrowed the car from its owner, who agreed to loan it to the National Corvette Museum when Reeves Callaway was inducted into the NCM Corvette Hall Of Fame - after one year, it was time to return the car however, I thought it would be neat to bring the car to the Mid America Funfest and share it with everyone
Depending what time of the day you were at Funfest, you may have had a chance to hear the Sledgehammer run
What an amazing machine - and as one said above, it has stood the test of time
Here is a picture I took at the close of the show
Last year, we borrowed the car from its owner, who agreed to loan it to the National Corvette Museum when Reeves Callaway was inducted into the NCM Corvette Hall Of Fame - after one year, it was time to return the car however, I thought it would be neat to bring the car to the Mid America Funfest and share it with everyone
Depending what time of the day you were at Funfest, you may have had a chance to hear the Sledgehammer run
What an amazing machine - and as one said above, it has stood the test of time Here is a picture I took at the close of the show
09-29-2009, 03:09 PM
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One Sledgehammer was built for high speed shootouts. The AeroBody derived from Sledgehammer, went into production during the following year for any 1989 or newer Callaway Corvette.
In the mid-80s, the measure of a car, was the top speed it could attain. After the Gathering of Eagles (Car & Driver) shootout in 1987 where the Callaway Top Gun Corvette captured the top spot with a terminal speed of 231 mph, the following year, Sledgehammer was built as the exclamation point to (always) be king of the top speed shootouts. Since then, no street legal Corvette has come close
In the mid-80s, the measure of a car, was the top speed it could attain. After the Gathering of Eagles (Car & Driver) shootout in 1987 where the Callaway Top Gun Corvette captured the top spot with a terminal speed of 231 mph, the following year, Sledgehammer was built as the exclamation point to (always) be king of the top speed shootouts. Since then, no street legal Corvette has come close
10-06-2009, 03:29 PM
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One Sledgehammer was built for high speed shootouts. The AeroBody derived from Sledgehammer, went into production during the following year for any 1989 or newer Callaway Corvette.
In the mid-80s, the measure of a car, was the top speed it could attain. After the Gathering of Eagles (Car & Driver) shootout in 1987 where the Callaway Top Gun Corvette captured the top spot with a terminal speed of 231 mph, the following year, Sledgehammer was built as the exclamation point to (always) be king of the top speed shootouts. Since then, no street legal Corvette has come close
In the mid-80s, the measure of a car, was the top speed it could attain. After the Gathering of Eagles (Car & Driver) shootout in 1987 where the Callaway Top Gun Corvette captured the top spot with a terminal speed of 231 mph, the following year, Sledgehammer was built as the exclamation point to (always) be king of the top speed shootouts. Since then, no street legal Corvette has come close
10-06-2009, 03:47 PM
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I think the Sledge cost something like $400k to make. Making a few more could have gotten the price into the $250k range - a lot of coin for a car in 1988 (about $500k in today's dollars).