Another C8 Corvette has been removed from the road in the most dramatic way possible: not by a track day gone wrong or a botched autocross entry, but by becoming an uninvited guest at a Masonic lodge in northwest Houston.
Early Thursday morning, around 2 a.m. (because nothing good ever happens at 2 a.m.), Houston Police officers spotted an Arctic White C8 hardtop convertible speeding down West Montgomery Road and blowing through red lights like they were merely suggestions. Officers attempted a traffic stop. The driver had other plans.
What followed was a roughly five-minute chase, not exactly a high-speed Hollywood thriller, but enough time for things to go very, very wrong. The pursuit came to an abrupt end when the Corvette apparently suffered a blown tire, sending the mid-engine sports car into a spin it couldn’t recover from…