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Corvette America's Star Spangled Sports Car The Complete History 1953-1982

Corvette America's Star Spangled Sports Car The Complete History 1953-1982
Corvette America's Star Spangled Sports Car The Complete History 1953-1982
Corvette America's Star Spangled Sports Car The Complete History 1953-1982
Corvette America's Star Spangled Sports Car The Complete History 1953-1982
Corvette America's Star Spangled Sports Car The Complete History 1953-1982
Corvette America's Star Spangled Sports Car The Complete History 1953-1982
Corvette America's Star Spangled Sports Car The Complete History 1953-1982
Corvette America's Star Spangled Sports Car The Complete History 1953-1982
Corvette America's Star Spangled Sports Car The Complete History 1953-1982
Corvette America's Star Spangled Sports Car The Complete History 1953-1982
Corvette America's Star Spangled Sports Car The Complete History 1953-1982
  • Stock: In Stock
  • Author: Karl Ludvigsen
  • ISBN: 9780837616599
  • Publisher: Bentley Publishers
  • Publication Year: 2014
  • Edition: 1st Edition
  • Revised: No
  • Reprint: No
  • Language: English
  • Pages: 769
  • Illustrations: Colour and Black and White
  • Format: Hardback - With Dustjacket
  • Condition Book: Mint
  • Condition Dust Jacket: Mint
  • Dimensions: 275.00mm x 240.00mm
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Corvette! Star - spangled it is - and at last here is the first complete story of America's most popular car. A virtual feast of historical narrative and over five hundred fascinating photographs, including more than seventy five in full colour, that will assuredly satisfy the appetite of every enthusiast. No one could tell the exciting story of the Corvette better than AUTOMOBILE Quarterly contributing editor Karl Ludvigsen. The scene is set with America's rediscovery of the sports car in the early fifties and Chevrolet's embarking on the adventure, which carried the Corvette idea from the inspirations of Harley Earl and Maurice Olley, to its initial reality as a GM Motorama show car and then into production. There's the drama of the last minute decision to revise the Corvette, not drop it, after it’s disastrous first year; the Corvette survival by racing in 1956; the development of fuel injection for the car. Related, too, are the developments leading to the SR-2 and XP-700 racing and show car versions; the flirtation with mid-engined designs; racing at Le Mans in 1960; the fabulous Sting Ray racer; the inside story of the exotic single-seater CERV; and the incredible saga of the five special light-weight Corvettes. The Corvette story carries the production car through its maturation during 1961-1962, into the all-new Sting Ray of 1963, improved as the Stingray from 1964-1967. Further chapters chronicle the spectacular Mako Shark, the transformation of the Corvette for 1968, the 'Vette of the seventies, and the contemporary mid-engine investigations and Chaparral-related projects. Karl Ludvigsen's history of the Corvette is as fast-paced as the cars it describes. It's a fascinating look at "The Real McCoy" which takes the reader behind the curtain of corporate secrecy with details, drawings and photos of many never-before-seen experimental cars, prototypes and styling studies. You meet men like Ed Cole, Bunkie Knudsen, John DeLorean and stylist Bill Mitchell, as you learn all about the great sports car they wanted to build—and did. Appendices include data invaluable to the Corvette enthusiast: statistics of sales, options, colours and production; specification tables for engines and chassis, with serial number sequences and engine and option identification codes; a listing of Corvette clubs and a bibliography for further reading.

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