Steve Magnante's 1001 Corvette Facts
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Steve Magnante. Steve Magnante's 1001 Corvette Facts
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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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