Back in ’69, the muscle car wars were at full boil. GM, Ford, and Chrysler were throwing haymakers at each other with tire-smoking, big-block bruisers built to dominate both Woodward Avenue and the local dragstrip. Chevrolet answered the call through its Central Office Production Order (COPO) system, slipping the all-aluminum ZL-1 big-block into a limited run of Camaros — and just two factory-built Corvettes. Those ZL-1 Corvettes became instant legends, symbols of factory-backed rebellion and no-compromise performance.

Fast forward to today, and that same outlaw spirit lives on.

There are “tuned Corvettes,” and then there are statement pieces - the kind of builds that make even seasoned track-day rats do the slow head turn like they just heard a big-cam idle in a quiet parking garage. Specialty Vehicle Engineering (SVE) just dropped the latter: a Stage III Yenko/SC twin-turbo Corvette E-Ray that’s reportedly good for up to 1,564 horsepower on E85. Yeah… that number.