[VIDEO] 700 Sounds – A Fan Film About a 1969 Corvette ZL-1

“If I were to describe this car and owning this car, just getting in and out of the vehicle, it’s a very raw, mechanical vehicle. You put the key in and you manually turn on the water pumps and fans and you have all your gauges. This is not a modern muscle car by any means.”

So begins “700 Sounds,” a five-minute visual and aural masterpiece of a video by YouTuber Stavro Victor that captures one owner’s raw emotion of experiencing a LeMans Blue 1969 Corvette ZL-1.

Listen as the owner, a guy identified only as Dane in the credits, succinctly explains what it’s like to climb behind the wheel of such an iconic car.

“700 horsepower, all motor, torque on demand, and it puts you in the back of your seat,” he says.

What “700 Sounds” means to Dane “is a passion for driving, horsepower – you really got to be alert and be aware. It’s extreme. There’s no traction control on this car, no electronics – this is a raw American muscle car.”

Originally purchased at the legendary Yenko Chevrolet in Pennsylvania, Dane found the car in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California. A Corvette racer himself, Don Yenko pushed GM to build production race cars like this ZL-1.

“The vision for this car when you peel it back was to keep it what it was – a Yenko Corvette,” Dane says. “It was really inspired just to be a step up from the Yenko/COPO factory standard. We wanted to pay tribute to his actual race car. There’s lots of modern underpinnings on this car that are there essentially so it can keep up with some of the modern cars.”

Dane says he grew up parking Corvettes at the Pomona Car Show. “That really inspired me watching the big block Chevys drive by, hearing the sound, the rumble. I owned a lot of modern muscle cars, but driving a classic, an American icon, you get a lot of heads turning. You feel like a celebrity. It’s not you, it’s the car. It is a celebrity.”

When people see this car, they see a vintage American icon, he says. “You can see it in their eyes. They pull their cell phones out. Kids that don’t even know what this car is, they know. There’s just something about the Coke bottle shape, the lines of this car and the sounds that it makes, you really gotta hear it in person.”

Dane says this classic C3 is important to him because it represents an era where people took pride in their vehicles. “It represents what the car was at the top of its level, at the top of its game,” he adds.

While some people might think that classic cars like this one are perfect museum pieces, Dane admits they aren’t and indeed have a lot of imperfections. “Build it to the point where you can handle driving it,” he explains, “because these cars are meant to be driven and not just sitting in the garage. Get that motor running, make it rad, make it shred tires, get out on the open road, let loose.”

As he puts it, driving this car “is a full-blown experience.”

“All your worries, you just leave ‘em behind. I feel at one with this car. It’s the closest thing to living in the moment. You can’t hear your cell phone, you’re not talking to the passenger. It’s got so much power that you really have to feel it. You’ve got to be 100 percent present. It’s just you and the car, that’s it.”

Source:
Stavro Victor

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