Famed Corvette Craftsman Reeves Callaway Useless At 75

Callaway Vehicles paved the best way for aftermarket efficiency corporations like Hennessey Efficiency, and was one of many scant few efficiency homes round that might take an already well-known automotive 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 maintain an unlimited storehouse of elements for older Callaway specials.

Reeves Callaway and his Corvettes are properly 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 likely be remembered as a pioneer within the customized Corvette scene and his firm’s Corvette Sledgehammer is endlessly immortalized in automotive historical past for reaching astronomical high speeds earlier than anybody thought it was doable.