Prepared by the Registry of Corvette Race Cars.
The son of a GM executive, John Greenwood began drag racing as a teenager on Detroit?s famed Woodward Ave strip. A few years later, he caught the road racing bug after entering his new 1968 Corvette in a parking lot solo event. That was enough. When he took his big block Corvette …
Saw his "Batmobile" Vette a couple of times. First time was 1974 at Waterford Hills at a club event where he showed up and won the big bore race. (And as a backdoor brag I won the FP class that weekend in my Triumph Spitfire 
). Saw him again leading the Daytona 24 hrs in for the first few hours in 1975 or 76. Nobody expected the big Vette to go the distance but it was the class of the field while it lasted.
Great cars, interesting guy. Got to visit him and his shop with a friend Dave Grob with One-G-Wheels back in the late 80's
Yes, John Greenwood, not to be confused with John Paul (Sr.) who successfully raced a Corvette around the same time. But don't get the two confused, which is easy to do. John Greenwood was a great, upstanding racer. John Paul, Sr., well not so much.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Sr._(racing_driver)
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