You Need A Race Ready Corvette C5-R In Your Garage

It’s the turn of the millennium, and you’re sitting in the Daytona stands when something roars by. Something loud, fast, and — most importantly — yellow. Now, 24 years later, that very same car is in your field of vision again. Only, this time, it’s for sale.

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Art & Revs, a gallery in Luxembourg that often deals in race cars, got its hands on a genuine Pratt & Miller-built C5R GT1. The sellers claim a full restoration, and that the car is ready to bring to your next vintage racing weekend. Yeah, C5s are vintage now. We’re all old.

This particular example was never campaigned by Corvette Racing directly, but was built as a backup car back in 2002. It was later sold off to a Belgian outfit, that campaigned it through 2008. Then, in 2016, Art & Revs started a restoration that left the car looking as it does today.

If you’re nostalgic for the early 2000s, you’re in good company — according to the wide-legged jeans I now see on a daily basis while walking through Brooklyn, they’re back in full force. You should get yourself a car befitting that nostalgia, something that can bring your sense memory right back to those scalding Daytona bleachers. All it’ll cost you is some unknown amount of money.