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Corvette: America's Sports Car, from Fiberglass Experiment to Global Performance Icon

Corvette: America's Sports Car, from Fiberglass Experiment to Global Performance Icon

Reeves, David

Paperback

Series: Icons of American Motoring, Book 1

Automobiles

ISBN13: 9798170293629
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 28 2026
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
IN 1953, HARLEY EARL UNVEILED A WHITE FIBERGLASS ROADSTER AT THE MOTORAMA SHOW IN NEW YORK.

Critics were skeptical. The Blue Flame six-cylinder was borrowed from a truck. The automatic transmission was borrowed from a sedan. The design was more concept car than road car. And yet - that prototype became the Corvette, the one American automobile that refused to die, refused to be reasonable, and refused to stop pushing the boundaries of what an American sports car could be.

Seven decades later, the Corvette is a mid-engine supercar. It did not arrive there by accident.

Corvette: America's Sports Car traces the engineering decisions, corporate battles, and cultural forces that shaped every generation of America's most iconic sports car - from the C1 that nearly killed the model before it started, to the C8 that finally gave the world the Corvette it had always deserved.

Twelve chapters follow the car with the forensic precision the subject demands:

- Why Zora Arkus-Duntov's insistence on a V8 saved the Corvette from cancellation in 1955

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