It might be difficult to imagine today, but there was a period during one of General Motors’ more challenging financial...
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Zora Arkus Duntov
When the speculation began years ago about a phenomenal ZORA model coming from Chevrolet to honor the legend of Zora...
Earlier this summer, I was visiting the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky and was pleasantly surprised to discover...
While it is not commonly known, the origins of “CORVSPORT.COM” date back to about 2010 when two (somewhat younger) automotive...
Harley Earl retired from General Motors on December 1, 1958. He had reached GM’s then-mandatory retirement age of 65 and...
Despite its being a major attraction for automotive consumers across the United States, General Motors made the decision to discontinue...
There’s a long, rich history between the Chevrolet Corvette and the DeLorean Motor Company (DMC), or at least between GM...
Photo: Casey Annis The story of the Corvette and how it came to race at Le Mans is one in...
Two names have become synonymous with Corvette over the years—Zora Arkus-Duntov and Dick Guldstrand. From the airport circuits of California...
Destiny often has a hard time happening, seldom more so than in the case of Zora Arkus-Duntov, the champion of...
Yesterday I brought you news on the controversial family hauler in the background of this trifecta of new Corvette sensations,...
If you are any kind of a Corvette enthusiast, then you’ve doubtless heard the name Ken Lingenfelter, and have at least...
Photo: Hal Crocker In the world of motor sports, the wind genie escaped from his bottle during the mid-1960s, and...
In 2020, I was approached by CarTech Books to write a book on the history of the Corvette thru the...
The National Corvette Museum Announces 2022 Corvette Hall of Fame Members Elect BOWLING GREEN, KY, April 29, 2022 – At...
FOR SALE: The Original 1957 Corvette Super Sport Show Car! In the past, we’ve showcased some rare “for sale” Corvettes...
The Duntov Turbo was built as a partnership between American Custom Industries (ACI), a company known for building replacement Corvette body panels, and Zora Arkus-Duntov. It was developed as a highly-stylized convertible sports car based on the production model Corvette. Each of the special Duntov Turbo's also came with a turbocharged V8.
While there are some early C1 Corvettes out there that are exceedingly rare and prohibitively expensive, there are plenty of first-generation Corvettes - especially those between 1959 and 1961 - that are well within the range of most budgets.
C8 Corvette Stingray – “One Man’s Vision Finally Becomes Reality” Long before the formal introduction and unveiling of the C8...
The 1963 Split Window Is Voted – BY YOU – as the Greatest Second-Generation Corvette of All Time! We asked...
Our Definitive List of the Best Corvette from Each Generation They say that “beauty is in the eye of the...
Corvette Racing Will Finally Compete in a Mid-Engine Corvette at the 24 Hours of Daytona on January 25, 2020! Happy...
Impressions of the Mid-Engine Corvette – From the Perspective of a European Sports Car Purist An Interview with Nick Dellis,...
The Next Generation Chevrolet Corvette Will Embark on Two National Tours Our friends at the National Corvette Museum published this...
Mid-Engine Prototypes: The 1985 Corvette Indy Concept, The 1986 Corvette Indy and the 1990 CERV III Since the introduction of...
The Chevrolet Aerovette (originally designated Experimental Project XP-882) was developed in the late 1960's under the watchful eyes and mind of Zora Arkus-Duntov. Unlike the XP-819, which ultimately proved to have too much rear weight bias, Duntov focused on developing the Aerovette as a mid-engine platform.
The XP-819 Corvette prototype was introduced in 1964 by Frank WInchell and Larry Shinoda as the first, experimental, rear-engine Corvette coupe. The XP-819 was developed in the mid-1960's as an engineering exercise to determine if a rear-engine platform was right for the Corvette program. During that time, Chevrolet was still under a racing ban.
In 1969, Chevrolet changed the perception of Corvette forever by introducing the ultra-powerful ZL-1 Corvette with a 427 CI engine producing 585 horsepower! The 1969 ZL-1 Corvette came equipped with an entirely new big-block engine option that produced more horsepower than any Corvette that had come before it. Any Corvette, when ordered with RPO ZL1, came fitted with an all-aluminum 427 C.I. engine that featured a dry-sump oil system and which weight approximately 100 pounds less.
The first Z06 was actually an option package first offered with the 1963 Corvette. The package was developed by Corvette's legendary lead engineer and racing advocate Z0ra Arkus-Duntov. The Z06 option was designed to allow consumers to bolster the 1963 "Split-Window" Corvettes performance and handling capabilities for use on the race track. Selecting regular production option (RPO) Z06 when ordering a Corvette resulted in a car equipped with some tasty options.
Zora Arkus Duntov – In His Own Words Recently, while performing research on the mid-engine Corvette, I stumbled upon a...
