numerous Corvette-bodied Funny Cars met unceremonious ends from evil handling, contact with both walls, and cars in opposite lanes, starting with Don Cullinan and Jim Wetton's "Mako Shark" Funny ...

One of our favorite non-automotive times of the year is upon us: Discovery's Shark Week 2023 begins on Sunday, July 23, at 8 p.m. EST. As such, we're thoroughly in the mood for some automotive ...

Shark Attack!Most Corvette fans are familiar with the '65 Mako Shark II concept car. Less well known is its predecessor, the XP-755, which began the family name lineage and helped set the styling ...

Found languishing in a field, devoid of both its front and rear ends, the Mako was in desperate need of a makeover—or as John likes to call it, a "Mako-ver." Undeterred by its c ...

The 1965 Mako Shark II may well have been the most exciting Corvette show car of all time and had more direct impact on future Corvette styling than any other. But by 1968, with the debut of the ...

During the 1960s, General Motors introduced a trio of stunning show cars that laid the groundwork ... Just a few years after the debut of the Mako Shark, the Corvette team began work on the ...

It has to do with former GM VP of Design Bill Mitchell, the Mako Shark concept car ... had a great concept car in the works, based on the 1963 Sting Ray Corvette that was about to be released ...

Photo: YouTube / Barcroft Cars The Corvette Mako Shark is one of the most influential functional prototypes ever, inspiring future generations of Corvettes and becoming lodged in the collective ...

s LeMay Museum has a pretty impressive collection of cars ... on the 1965 Mako Shark II's styling -- it was the Mako Shark II, restyled. By the time the Manta Ray debuted, the C3 Corvette was ...

The Chevy Corvette ... a shark — and that was no accident either, as a large portion of the design was borrowed from the General Motors Mako Shark concept. The front half of the car featured ...

With modern automotive design influenced more and more by numerous regulations, many of the production cars ... as the Mako Shark II. The C3-based concept was an evolution of the Corvette- C2 ...

The Mako Shark, otherwise known as XP-755, was built in 1961 as a preview of the second-generation Corvette, which was due as a 1963 model. The styling theme for the redesigned sports car had long ...