LEGO® Speed Champions · Chevrolet · 2021

Chevrolet Corvette C8.R Race Car and 1969 Chevrolet Corvette

Q: Is LEGO® set 76903 still available?

LEGO® set 76903 is retired (launched 2021). Try the secondary market for sealed copies.

Q: How big is the LEGO® Chevrolet Corvette C8.R Race Car and 1969 Chevrolet Corvette when built?

Speed Champions cars are 8-stud wide; typical built length is 14–18 cm. Check LEGO.com or BrickLink for exact dimensions of set 76903.

Q: How many pieces does LEGO® set 76903 have?

515 pieces. No minifigure included.

Q: Is this a 6-stud or 8-stud LEGO® Speed Champions set?

8-stud width. The current LEGO® Speed Champions scale, introduced in 2020 to accommodate openable cockpits and more interior detail.

Q: What other LEGO® Chevrolet Speed Champions sets are there?

Browse every LEGO® Chevrolet Speed Champions set on the Chevrolet hub page (/brands/chevrolet/).

Two Corvettes, fifty-two years apart — the 1969 C3 small-block coupe and the IMSA-winning mid-engined C8.R.

Set #76903 2021 515 pieces 8-stud Retired

When General Motors moved the Corvette’s engine behind the seats for the C8 generation, it ended a 67-year run of front-engined Corvettes — and gave Corvette Racing a fundamentally faster car. The C8.R won the 2020 IMSA GTLM championship at its debut. This dual set pairs that race car with a 1969 C3 — the chrome-bumper, big-block era — to bracket the model line’s widest engineering gap.

LEGO® Speed Champions set 76903 Chevrolet Corvette C8.R Race Car and 1969 Chevrolet Corvette, product image — Source: Rebrickable

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Two Corvettes that demonstrate just how far the model line travelled in 52 years.

IMSA RACE CAR

Chevrolet Corvette C8.R Race Car

Mid-engined GT racer

The C8.R is the first mid-engined Corvette Racing car. It debuted at the 2020 Daytona 24 and went on to win the IMSA GTLM manufacturers’ and team championships in its first season. Power comes from a 5.5-litre flat-plane-crank V8 derived from the C8.R Z06 road-car project.

The visible mid-engine layout was a deliberate marketing decision — Corvette Racing had been running front-engined cars for two decades, and the brand wanted the C8 generation’s identity established on track immediately. Yellow with Chevy-bowtie graphics is the racing colour scheme; this LEGO® set captures it.

Engine: 5.5L flat-plane-crank V8
Class: IMSA GTLM (2020), GTD Pro (2022+)
Notable wins: 2020 IMSA GTLM championship
Operated by: Corvette Racing / Pratt Miller

CLASSIC AMERICAN

1969 Chevrolet Corvette

Chrome-bumper big-block era

The 1969 Corvette is the second model year of the C3 generation — the “Mako Shark” body that defined the brand’s 1968–1982 era. Engine options ran from a 300-hp 350 small-block to the 435-hp L71 427 big-block; the LT1 350 small-block, introduced in 1970, isn’t in this car.

GM produced 38,762 units of the 1969 Corvette across coupe and convertible body styles. It is the model year that introduced the “Stingray” badge, dropped after 1976 and resurrected for the C7 generation in 2014.

Engines: 350 SB (300–350 hp), 427 BB (390–435 hp)
Body: C3 generation (Mako Shark II)
Production (1969): 38,762 units
Note: “Stingray” badge introduced this year

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Display ideas

Park C3 first, C8.R behind — staged like a Corvette Racing pit garage with the road car as the donor.
Pair with any other front-vs-mid-engine generational set to extend the narrative shelf.

People

The Corvette story spans 67 years of front-engine cars and a hard pivot in 2020 to mid-engined layout. The names below are the people on either side of that change.

Antonio García

Corvette Racing C8.R driver

García has driven Corvette Racing's factory C8.R since the C7.R era and was one of the lead drivers in the 2020 IMSA GTLM championship-winning campaign. The yellow #3 livery in this set is the version he, Jordan Taylor, and the rest of the Corvette Racing roster have raced — Garcia's signature factory car.

Tadge Juechter

Corvette Chief Engineer

Juechter led the Corvette engineering team through the move to mid-engine for the C8 generation — a change Chevrolet had considered (and shelved) for forty years. The road C8 unlocked a much faster racing C8.R because the chassis was built around the change rather than retrofitted.

Larry Shinoda

1969 C3 designer

Shinoda penned the C3 Corvette's body — the more aggressive, more flared-fender follow-up to Bill Mitchell's C2. The 1969 in this set is from Shinoda's design era; his work defined the 'Mako Shark' aesthetic that ran through the Corvette range until 1982.

The build

The 1969 C3 Corvette

The C3 uses chrome bricks for the front grille and pop-up headlamp covers. Its long hood and short rear deck are exaggerated relative to scale to capture the proportional drama of the original — the build skews towards a 1968-72 'big-block' coupe profile rather than a later 1980-82 model.

The two-tone red-and-cream paintwork is split between body bricks; the chrome side-mirrors and door handles are printed elements. The whitewall-style tyres are a deliberate period choice.

The C8.R race car

The C8.R uses printed elements for the headlight clusters and the central running-prancing-Stingray graphic. The 8-stud-wide chassis suits the C8.R's wider mid-engined proportions; this is the Speed Champions chassis era when the line widened from 6 to 8 studs.

The yellow-and-black Corvette Racing livery wraps the car with stickers across each flank, the engine cover, and the front splitter. The #3 race number is printed.

Why this pairing matters

Corvette is one of the few sports cars whose model name spans more than 70 years and crosses through every era of American performance — from small-block coupes to mid-engined hybrids in the C8.R's GTP-class siblings. Pairing the 1969 with the 2020 race car is a literal demonstration of that arc.

Display pairing: 76907 (Lotus Evija) and 76916 (Porsche 963) make the C8.R era's prototype-class peers; 75870 (Corvette Z06, 2016) makes a heritage Corvette pair.

FAQ

Is LEGO® set 76903 still available?

LEGO® set 76903 is retired. It launched in 2021 and is no longer in production. Try Bricklink, eBay or Brickset member sales for sealed and used copies.

How big is the LEGO® Chevrolet Corvette C8.R Race Car and 1969 Chevrolet Corvette when built?

Speed Champions cars are 8-stud wide and built models typically measure around 14–18 cm long. For exact built dimensions of set 76903, check the LEGO.com product page or BrickLink catalog entry.

How many pieces does LEGO® set 76903 have?

LEGO® set 76903 contains 515 pieces. This set does not include a minifigure.

Is this a 6-stud or 8-stud LEGO® Speed Champions set?

This is an 8-stud-wide Speed Champions car. LEGO® widened the scale from 6-stud to 8-stud in 2020 to make room for an opening cockpit, removable windscreen, and more interior detail.

What other LEGO® Chevrolet Speed Champions sets are there?

You can browse every LEGO® Chevrolet Speed Champions set on the Chevrolet hub page, which links to each set's wiki entry, year of release and current status.