2007 Mongoose GTP

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by Marcia Colelli

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2007 Mongoose GTP

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Marcia Colelli

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2007 Mongoose GTP.
Mongoose Motor Sports GTP a replica car based off the 1984 Grand Touring Prototype. The Corvette car built by General Motors.
In ’84, Chevrolet commissioned Lola Race Cars to build seven Corvette GTP cars GM could campaign in the IMSA race series. The C4 Corvette had just come out, and Chevrolet brass thought that publicity from race wins would promote the all-new Corvette quite well. Like the personal computer industry, race-cars become outdated almost as soon as they’re introduced. These GTP machines won a few races, but they didn’t command center stage for very long. Some 10 years ago, one sold for just under $400,000. The second of the seven GTP Corvettes, chassis #711, will have been auctioned off at the Bloomington Gold High Performance Auction (St. Charles, Illinois, June 15-17) by the time you read this. According to auto racing experts, the vintage race-worthy original may fetch as high as one million dollars. Even if you make the big bucks like some, that’s not small change. By paying that much for an old race-car, you’ve either got a fascination for collecting museum pieces, or you want to vintage race. The original GTPs aren’t street legal by any stretch of the imagination.
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