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Turns Out That Lifted Corvette Is Pretty Damn Good at Off-Roading
Turns Out That Lifted Corvette Is Pretty Damn Good at Off-Roading-August 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:12:02

That lifted C5 Corvette has a new owner. And he’s hooning it off-road.

The lifted C5 was originally built by YouTuber . He bought the typically paved-track beast and modified it with a four-inch lift and fitting it with not-cheap 33-inch Nitto Ridge Grappler tires. While he did drive it, he was really aiming to sell it — eventually posting it to Facebook Marketplace for just $8,500.

Somebody adored that car as much as most of us here at Jalopnik did, and our coverage apparently helped the YouTuber sell it. Now the ‘Vette has a new owner — another Youtuber known as . Camplin has beenhooning the off-roading-looking beast through the Illinois backcountry — and the rides are just as wild as you’d expect. At one point Camplin says the thing is like a rally car. I agree. It could most definitely pass as a Skunkworks rally car someone made in their garage.

But it doesn’t just look like a one-off rally car. It has the performance capabilities of a rally car. The combination of the suspension lift with the off-road tires makes this typically gravel-averse darling into a mean off-roader — handling things like nice sized rocks and steam fording.

Honestly, the world could use more crazy cars/mashups like this. So if you’ve had that wild project that’s been sitting in your head for years — thisoff-roading Corvette proves your wacky idea is likely not that wacky after all. Build it.

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