But racing? Totally Earl’s idea. The National Corvette Museum says the race car project was Earl’s idea but his plan was to drop a Chevy engine into a Jaguar D-type and take the makeshift ...
The 1957 Corvette SS Project XP-64 was the first purpose-built GM racecar and a personal project of famous racer and engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov, often called the 'Father of the Corvette.' ...
The SS Project XP-64 was the brainchild of none other than Zora Arkus-Duntov, who is better known as the “father of the Corvette.” The engineer was an experienced racer—he appeared in the 24 ...