Thursday 8th September 1955
Zora Arkus-Duntov raced a disguised 1956 model Corvette with a V-8 engine at the Pike’s Peak Hill climb in Colorado, setting the stock car record, with a time of 17 hours 24 minutes 05 seconds.
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