GM’s Design Staff created the Corvette 2-Rotor to flaunt the Wankel-type rotary engines that the Corporation was developing in the...
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Karl E. Ludvigsen is a journalist, author, and historian of the automotive industry and motorsports. Karl Ludvigsen is the author of the definitive history of Porsche. His Porsche history, Excellence was Expected, is considered to be a model of the researching and writing of the history of an auto company. Ludvigsen is an honorary member of the Vintage Sports Car Club of America and the Corvair Society of America. He is also a member of the council of the Historic Automobile Group.
Ed Cole fought to keep his Corvette alive. Some 1955 models were powered by Chevy’s new V-8. Zora Arkus-Duntov arrived...
The Corvette’s very existence stirred Styling Staff designers to create new ideas based on its design. The 1954 Motorama showed...
Chevrolet put its heart and soul into the production and marketing of its new sports car, with Mauri Rose demonstrating...
For the original Corvette nothing was more important than a drive train that would do justice to a true sports...
After Harley Earl and Carl Renner created the shape of the first Corvette, Maurice Olley had the task of putting...
It took Harley Earl to envision the idea of a GM-built sports car, Bob McLean to create a European-style package...