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Milestones and a few potholes: A 60-year drive with America's sports car
… designed to build 10,000 cars a year. But production of 1954 Corvettes totals just 3,640 cars. Meanwhile, Zora Arkus - Duntov , hired by Chevrolet as an assistant staff engineer in May 1953, is on a personal quest to make the Corvette a …
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COMMENTARY: I'm going to miss that guy
… be replaced with 289s and later 427s. Chevrolet didn't want competition for the Corvette; Corvette designer Zora Arkus - Duntov and General Motors President Ed Cole put the kibosh on letting him have engines. It was the best thing that could …
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Chevrolet SS to be the name of brand's performance sedan, NASCAR entry
… Chevy. Notably, it was used in 1957 on a Corvette prototype race car built under the stewardship of Vette pioneer Zora Arkus - Duntov . The first production SS arrived in 1961 on the Impala, and 453 versions were built that year with upgraded chassis …
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Zora Arkus-Duntov didn't father the Corvette; he immortalized it
… Corvette without a silent nod to its patron saint, Zora Arkus - Duntov . While the Russian engineer often is incorrectly ..... series celebrating famous Russian expatriates. Zora Arkus - Duntov might have been Louis Chevrolet's greatest alter …
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Small-block V-8 had huge impact
… 1956 and amateur Corvette racers began harassing the dominant Europeans in SCCA, the car began to come alive. Zora Arkus - Duntov , later the Corvette's chief engineer, had warned in a clairvoyant 1953 "manifesto" that hot rodders and grass …
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Chevy's racing triumvirate
… effort by Vince Piggins, Frank Winchell and Zora Arkus - Duntov , that epic engine would never have made it ..... racing community until he retired in 1983. Zora Arkus - Duntov Zora Arkus - Duntov , who was born in Belgium, raised in Russia …
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British engineer Maurice Olley helped give Chevys a smooth ride
… for a rollover test. The Corvette chassis provided a credible foundation for the performance improvements that Zora Arkus - Duntov would apply when the second-generation Corvette debuted in 1963. Olley was Arkus-Duntov's first boss at Chevy …
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Chevy has rich NASCAR history
… 1955 with the Chevy chief engineer at North Wilkesboro, N.C., when France dangled the bait. And Cole bit. Zora Arkus - Duntov , godfather of the Corvette and a Cole lieutenant, declared a more pivotal moment occurred in 1956, when he lured …
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Racing is in Chevrolet's DNA
… forced Ed Cole's operation underground in 1957. Zora Arkus - Duntov 's 1963 Grand Sport program went dark when the edict ..... the Chevy flag in NASCAR. With engineers such as Zora Arkus - Duntov and three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Mauri Rose …
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Fishel put Chevrolet in the winner's circle
… brothers Gaston and Arthur, but the bow tie brand didn't really live up to that image until decades later, when Zora Arkus - Duntov put a small-block V-8 into the Corvette and Vince Piggins prepped the Camaro for the Trans-Am series. And …
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The story of the Sting Ray
… Pohlmann and Brock under Mitchell's direction and was engineered to fit over the chassis of Corvette engineer Zora Arkus - Duntov 's original Corvette SS mule car. The mule was a development version of the purpose-built Corvette SS racing …
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A passionate immigrant gave the Corvette sizzle
… the 100 stories we will tell. The Chevrolet Corvette was the brainchild of design genius Harley Earl. But it was Zora Arkus - Duntov , an engineer and a performance junkie, who gave the car its sizzle. Arkus-Duntov, the Belgium-born offspring …
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Lifelong love story began at the Waldorf-Astoria
… Motorama at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York. Zora Arkus - Duntov was among the thousands captivated by the Corvette ..... Duntov said of the original Corvette, according to Zora Arkus - Duntov : The Legend Behind Corvette, by Jerry Burton …
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The Corvette survived 2 run-ins with DeLorean
… gave Dave McLellan the job of making it happen. McLellan was the Camaro's chief engineer and later succeeded Zora Arkus - Duntov as chief engineer for the Corvette. "In the end it didn't work. ... It all came down to the engine placement …
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Chevy's Corvette: 55 years of star power and still going strong
… who drove off in a new Impala or Malibu or Silverado pickup. In the 1960s, aided and abetted by chief engineer Zora Arkus - Duntov (see story, next page), Corvettes set performance records and battled Ford and European automakers on racetracks …
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Racing has played a major role in selling power and durability
… on drag strips in Southern California, and with Zora Arkus - Duntov 's Chevy Corvette, road racing at Sebring and Le ..... is easier now than it might have been for Herb or Zora ( Arkus - Duntov ). Today we have quite a powerful leadership group …
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Hurray for affordable performance cars
… for enthusiast-type vehicles just as there has been from the time of the Duesenberg brothers racing at Indy, Zora Arkus - Duntov running the sand at Daytona and Henry Ford II cheering a 1-2-3 finish at Le Mans. I applaud GM for not forgetting …
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A 4-door Corvette would be a cartoon
… how absurd it would look. Since its beginning 54 years ago, the Corvette has followed the concept established by Zora Arkus - Duntov . It is a sports car and has been laid out as such in all its styling elements, the same as Porsche, Ferrari …
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RADIO COMMENTARY: Corvette at 50
… heritage display began a nationwide tour. New books are turning up. Some about the car, and at least one about Zora Arkus Duntov , the engineer known as father of the 'Vette. And of course there will be a 50th anniversary model. Also new is …
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Ford Thunderbird priced at $2,944
… garde for the plain-brown two-door set. Chevy was on the verge of dumping it in late 1954, but engineer Zora Arkus - Duntov made it a fire-breathing performance car, and the Vette found the niche it still occupies. The two-seat Thunderbird …
