Famed Corvette Craftsman Reeves Callaway Lifeless At 75

Callaway Automobiles paved the best way for aftermarket efficiency firms like Hennessey Efficiency, and was one of many scant few efficiency homes round that would take an already well-known automobile just like the Corvette and make it higher. Greater than forty years later, the corporate Reeves Callaway based continues to be going sturdy with places in its native Previous Lyme, Connecticut, Temecula, California, and its racing division on Leingarten, Germany. And the corporate is more than pleased to supercharge a GMC Yukon, Chevy Tahoe, supply a kitted-out ‘Vette, and preserve an unlimited storehouse of components for older Callaway specials.

Reeves Callaway and his Corvettes are nicely regarded by Corvette followers. In 2021, a Corvette Sledgehammer went up for public sale and reached $500,000 earlier than the public sale ended with out assembly reserve. Nonetheless, it is common for Callaway-modded ‘Vettes to interrupt six-figures at public sale. Callaway will probably be remembered as a pioneer within the customized Corvette scene and his firm’s Corvette Sledgehammer is eternally immortalized in automotive historical past for reaching astronomical prime speeds earlier than anybody thought it was attainable.