A full decade into Car and Driver’s Lightning Lap, and one thing remains the same: Corvette provides prodigious speeds for comparatively little outlay.

8.69 seconds at 153 miles per hour. These are unfathomable numbers for most of us mere mortals who have never built anything like this take-no-prisoners C6 Corvette Z06.

This week’s Corvette of the Week winner picks up the honor as much for being bold and different as he does for picking up one awesome-looking ‘Vette.