Steve Magnante's 1001 Corvette Facts

Steve Magnante's 1001 Corvette Facts
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Author Steve Magnante is well known for his encyclopedia-like knowledge of automotive facts. The details he regularly shares, both in the pages of national magazines and as a contributing host and tech expert at the popular Barrett-Jackson Auctions on television, are the kinds of details that car fanatics love to hear. Many feel that these facts are among the highlights of television auction coverage, much more interesting than other aspects of the coverage.</p><p>In this latest volume of the popular 1001 Facts series, Magnante turns his attention to the most popular American sports car ever built, the Chevrolet Corvette. During more than 60 years of production, the Corvette has changed immensely, from the original Motorama cars turned into production cars, to the beautiful and popular mid-year cars, to the rakish lines of the Sting Ray designs, through the revolution turned evolution of the C4 through C7 models. Magnante covers them all here, generation by generation. Corvette fans of any generation are sure to love this collection.</p><p>Whether you're an avid fan of all Corvettes, a trivia buff who wants to stump your friends, or you have a particular affinity for a certain era of Corvettes, this book is an informative and entertaining collection of facts from one of the industry's most beloved and respected sources.

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58 The 1955 Corvette stands as a transitional model. It wore the early body but stepped up to V-8 power. Although General Motors became conservative with production to ward off an inventory glut, all but 7 of the 700 1955 Corvettes easily bruised European sports cars thanks to the new 265-ci OHV V-8. Arkus-Duntov obtained one of the first V-8 Corvettes and presented it to his wife, Elfie, for daily use. It wore special silver paint and a central racing stripe. Silver didn’t join Corvette’s option list until the 1957 arrival of Inca Silver.

59 Frugal buyers did not special-order the seven 6-cylinder Corvettes built in 1955. Rather, the St. Louis plant had leftover engines and had to “build them out” (as they say in the biz). It was up to dealers to find them homes. Still, buyers saved $135 ($2,774 versus $2,909 for the 195-hp 265 V-8). The seven 6-bangers carried VINs starting with E55. The new V-8s received VINs starting with VE55. In the 1978 Petersen Deluxe Series book Corvette: An American Classic, John Amgwert (of the National Corvette Restorer’s Society/NCRS) reported that five of the 6-cylinder 1955 Corvettes were still in existence at the time of publication, an amazing survival rate.

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