Straight Axle Years
General Motors recruited engineer and race car driver, Zora Arkus Duntov, to help them inject some performance into their brands. Duntov wanted to make the Corvette competitive with sports cars from Europe like Ferrari and Maserati. To gain respect it needed to win on the track. He organized a team to build the SS or “Experimental Corvette” and took it to Sebring. The 1957 Corvette SS ‘concept car’, was built in order to race...
Dream Cars / Corvette Society tech session. Want to thank Chris Mazzilli and Dave Weber for another year hosting this event for us. We had a little over 35 members which included several members from the VCCA club. Great day, great cars and good friends!! WHAT WE DO We offer a suite of services tailored to enthusiasts and collectors alike. From top-notch restoration to evaluation, consignment and storage, we’ve got all your classic car...
Posted 06/30/21 by Paul Sakalas Last updated on 07/02/2024 The first Corvettes were crafted on a makeshift assembly line in Chevrolet’s Flint, Michigan plant, while a permanent production facility was being built in St. Louis, Missouri. (Image/GM) On June 30th, 1953 the first production Corvette rolled off the assembly line. But despite the position it holds now as “America’s Sports Car,” the Corvette wasn’t exactly an instant hit. In fact, it wasn’t even America’s first sports car. We think that...
From the Archives: Big Vette MotorTrend-Archives Photographer-Drew Hardin-Writer Eric Rickman- Photographer-May 18, 2015 Ah, to be a big shot magazine editor in the early ’60s. In November 1961,Hot Rodmagazine’s Ray Brock was able to borrow the hottest Corvette off the lot at Harry Mann Chevrolet in Los Angeles to put it through its paces for a story. It had less than 500 miles on the clock when he drove away, headed for winding roads...
Lot 268 |The Amelia Auction 2025Saturday, 08 March 2025 Estimate: $1,000,000 – $1,300,000 Chassis No. 00867S102272 Persistence… tenacity… resolve. Each one of these qualities is the hallmark of nearly everyone fortunate to be involved with this special Corvette from Day One. Competition has a way of amplifying certain innate traits and for Lucky Casner, Fred Gamble, and Loren Lundberg, the certain doggedness that each possessed would come to define their time with Camoradi U.S.A.’s...
From the 2024 Muscle Car & Corvette Nationals, Matt Avery’s Celebrity Pick was this one-family owned unrestored 1961 Chevrolet Corvette.
I’m proud to present and amazing film from GM about the FIRST AMERICAN SPORTS CAR to be mass produced. This car hit it out of the park in 53… It was introduced late in the 1953 model year and produced through 1962. This generation is commonly referred to as the solid axle generation, as the independent rear suspension did not appear until the 1963 Sting Ray. This film is the DEBUT FILM from General...
By Brett Foote – May 28, 2021 This Briggs Cunningham Corvette was one of the last raced...
In this throwback video from RJ Konner, Chevrolet dealer Malcolm Konner took 25 customers to the Corvette Assembly Plant in St. Louis in 1959 to pick up their new 1959 Corvettes at the factory and they would drive them home to New Jersey’s Malcolm Konner Chevrolet via a timed road rally. Malcolm Konner Takes 25 Customers to Pick Up New 1960 Corvettes in St. Louis Photo Credits: RJ and Gary Konner Many of you...
Rare home movies chronicle the first Corvettes going into production. Each one is built by hand at the GM factory in Flint, Michigan. Only 300 Corvettes were built that first year. All 1953 Corvettes were white with a red interior, all had Powerglide automatic transmissions mated to 150 HP, six cylinder engines with three carburetors and dual exhaust. Of those 300, 255 survived. Source: http://www.corvettemuseum.org/library…
Corey Peterson brought his 1953 Corvette VIN 001 to Bloomington Gold 2024 and did a Question and Answer session about the car. Documentation from the GM Archives shows that the VIN 001 and VIN 002 cars were used for further engineering updates. Further examination of the long lost Corvette shows the documented updates that were performed on them.
#RespectTheDrive#Corvette#Chevy Apr 17, 2022 • #RespectTheDrive #Corvette #Chevy Thanks to Bond Group for tossing the keys to this C1 1962 Chevrolet Corvette Fuelie. Find it on Bring a Trailer and explore their inventory at https://www.bondgroupusa.com
Paul Stenquist 13 June 2023 Share In the mid-20th century, fuel injection was still largely the stuff of fantasies. Then General Motors shocked the automobile world and put injected Chevies and Pontiacs on the showroom floor. Car-loving performance enthusiasts drooled, and the Beach Boys sang about a “fuel-injected engine sittin’ under my hood.” It was automotive culture shock. We were accustomed to seeing that technology on race cars, but fuel-injected cars that you and...
