the sledgehammer corvette went like what 250 mph in the late 80's? with like half the HP of the Veyron?

I think it topped out at 256 with close to 900hp which is short of a Veyron by about 300.

This is the twin turbo one right? Those things were fucking monsters, zero traction almost undrivable. What a blast it must have been to drive. An old roommate of mine worked for Callaway. I'd hang out there at night after hours, even worked on my POS car on their lifts in that shop a few weekends. I would get to ride in the cars from time to time it was fuckin awesome. Mainly the newer ones when they were first making them, even got in a ride or two with the C16 when it was a prototype and still had a hacked up hood covered in high speed tape before they figured out how they would design that hump in the hood (the thing had "experimental test car" license plates on it, so fucking cool). I never got the chance but he told me all about these, every so often one of these bad boys came in for service and holy shit it was intense.