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The body engineer for the Corvette was Ellis James Premo. He presented a paper to the Society of Automotive Engineers in 1954 regarding the development of the body. [18] Several excerpts highlight some of the points in the body material choice: The body on the show model was made of reinforced plastic purely as an expedient to get the job done ...
The 2020 Corvette C8 was the first Corvette to have a rear mid-engine configuration, [108] GM's first since the 1984 Pontiac Fiero. The base Stingray coupe was introduced on July 18, 2019, with three launch colors, red (with the Z51 Package), white, and blue, and the convertible on October 2 at the Kennedy Space Center , joined by the C8.R race ...
The first sports Corvette was designed and constructed by Duntov in 1956, who built 3 copies. The SR1 and SR2 projects met with Harley Earl's approval, which led to Duntov's proposal to establish the Corvette racing team being accepted with his promotion to the post of director of the high-performance car department in 1957.
The man behind Chevrolet's iconic machine, the Corvette, is retiring. ... Juechter worked on the fifth-generation Corvette, made between 1997 and 2004, and the sixth generation, made between 2005 ...
The Chevrolet Corvette C8.R is a grand tourer racing car built by Pratt Miller and Chevrolet for competition in endurance racing. It serves as the replacement for the Corvette C7.R, using the C8 generation Chevrolet Corvette as a base. Corvette Racing fielded the C8.R in the IMSA SportsCar Championship GT Le Mans (GTLM) class starting with the ...
GM intends to slowly ramp up Z06 production in an effort to avoid another Stingray delivery situation.
The roof panel, which was made from fiberglass or optionally from clear acrylic, was removable. The Corvette C4 came standard with an electronic dashboard with a digital liquid crystal display instrument cluster. It displayed a combination of graphics for speed and RPM, fuel level, and used digital displays for other important engine functions.
A bag (also known regionally as a sack) is a common tool in the form of a non-rigid container, typically made of cloth, leather, bamboo, paper, or plastic. The use of bags predates recorded history , with the earliest bags being lengths of animal skin, cotton , or woven plant fibers, folded up at the edges and secured in that shape with strings ...