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 lead ship of the project, the Derzky corvette, will remain the only vessel of its class. "It is not expected that it will be commissioned in its present-day version," the source added.