Vandenberg is the fourth owner of the 1967 Dana/Yenko Corvair Stinger, which he purchased in 2005. Its original owner was Donald Heath, photographer for actor James Garner, who headed the American International Corvette Racing Team for Dana Chevrolet in California. Heath owned the vehicle from 1967 to 1995.
It has appeared in eight national magazines, two books, newspaper articles, on ESPN, Spike TV and Fox Sport South Network. It was the first Corvair to display at a NASCAR Fan Event.
Corvairs got a 3.89 set of gears by the way
and he raced it in the COPO Shootout... and freaked out all those Yenko, Motion, Gibb and Harrell supercar owners with 10 and 11 second cars! The Corvair is firmly in the 21.12 to 22.50 bracket, and sitting on the line watching the Corvair get so close to the finish line for 10 seconds really puts a lot of pressure on other racers who forgot that they ought to ignore any car in the other lane, and simply make consistent actions to meet their estimated time.
He won seven straight runs.... either the trick works really damn well, or he's the most consistant racer I've ever head of. He is an experienced racer... but it's also quite a mind game to pull on the other racers
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/dana-copo-1967-corvair-stinger-nearly-upsets-copo-pete-shootout-super-car-reunion-22/
https://www.thedailytimes.com/community/classic-corvair-overgrown-volkswagen-makes-stop-at-concours-d-elegance/article_599de882-1df6-5d4c-ae6e-a6b8e7287252.html
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