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With few exceptions, all Corvettes ache from the aforementioned affliction: the success of their successors. Within the Corvette’s connected and bright history, there are abounding amazing models that, in their day, were the “to die for” Corvettes, alone to be eclipsed by the abutting “to die for” Corvette. While prices for C1 Corvettes accept become abrupt because of their low assembly numbers, there isn’t addition bearing Corvette that was so radically afflicted from its alpha to end, while actual astonishingly similar. Of course, aback the 1963 Sting Ray accustomed with its new and bigger anatomy and absolute rear suspension, C1 Corvettes bound became second-class. But a afterpiece attending shows that from 1957 to 1962, C1s were appealing acceptable achievement cars.

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The C1 bearing can be anecdotal into four characteristic groups: 1953-’55, 1956-’57, 1958-’60 and 1961-’62. Let’s attending at the bodies. The first, additional and third groups accept no accepted important anatomy panels, while the third and fourth groups allotment accepted advanced ends. Harley Earl’s aboriginal Corvette is a around-the-clock archetypal that needs to be apparent abutting to approved cars of the day. But the rollout of the aboriginal three years of Corvettes was not good. Sales were abhorrent because the car absolutely wasn’t completed. In the aboriginal three years, alone 4,640 Corvettes were awash in total. Alike admitting the 1955 Corvette assuredly had a three-speed chiral chiral and the all-new 265 small-block Chevy V-8 engine, the car was already attenuated by its past. On top of that, Ford’s new Thunderbird was a abundant added accomplished car with affluence appearance accepted in a premium-priced automobile. Ford awash 16,155 of the 1955 Thunderbirds while Chevrolet alone awash 700 Corvettes.

By backward 1954, managers and designers knew that the Corvette badly bare a reboot. As apple-pie as the aboriginal Corvette was, it was “nice” but not advancing enough. The 1956 Corvette accustomed an all-new anatomy that was a “Wow!” Sales jumped from 700 in 1955 to 3,467 in 1956 and afresh to 6,339 in 1957. But sales were still boilerplate abutting to the Thunderbird that awash 15,631 units in 1956 and 21,380 in 1957. Then, Ford bailed out of the two-seater American sports car articulation afterwards 1957, abrogation the Corvette as American’s alone accurate sports car.

As apple-pie and advancing as the 1956-’57 Corvette anatomy was, all GM cars were allowable to abrasion the new accumulated four-headlight look. The third anatomy group, the 1958-’60 Corvettes were identical, except for the abridgement of chrome trim afterwards 1958. While the 1958 Corvette took some calefaction for its beyond admeasurement (9.2-inches best and 1.7-inches wider) and abundant use of chrome trim, sales jumped to 9,168 for 1958, 9,670 for 1959, and 10,261 for 1960, so Chevrolet was happy. The 1958 archetypal was additionally backward Harley Earl’s aftermost Corvette, and he absolutely admired lots of chrome. The fourth anatomy accumulation was the 1961-’62 models; the commencement to the accessible Sting Ray. The advanced end was identical to the third anatomy group, except for the grille and added accessory trim, but the aback end had the characteristic baiter appendage architecture with two clusters of two taillights, a attending that Corvette would advance until the accession of the C7. Sales kept aggressive with 10,939 Corvette awash 1961 and 14,531 awash for 1962.

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The best affecting improvements for the C1s were all beneath the skin. The Blue Flame six was aloof an acting agent while the new small-block Chevy was in development. C1s started out with 150 application from the Blue Flame six and maxed out with 360 application with the 1962 327 fuelie. The 1955 265 V-8 Corvette got a 45-horsepower bang over the Blue Flame six to 195 horsepower. In 1956, Chevrolet started alms achievement agent options for Corvettes and connected to do so until 1981. For $172, 1956 Corvette barter could adjustment RPO 469, the 265ci small-block with dual-quad carbs and 225 horsepower. But 1957 was the year to bethink with the accession of the $484 RPO 579, Rochester ammunition injected 283. Two versions were offered, one with 250 application and the added with 283 horsepower.

But the hot account for barter that capital to chase their 1957 Corvette was the aboriginal of the Zora Arkus-Duntov and Mauri Rose “racer kit” options: the $780 RPO 684, clearly listed as Abundant Duty Antagonism Suspension. This was a abeyance and brakes option, not clashing the 1973-’75 Z07 off-road abeyance and anchor amalgamation and afresh the 1984-’17 Z51 achievement administration package. RPO 684 included able advanced and rear springs and shocks, a beyond advanced balance bar, a quick council adapter, finned anchor drums and rear anchor scoops. Combined with either the 270hp dual-quad or the 283hp fuel-injected 283 engine, the chiral four-speed chiral and Positraction, barter had a solid foundation to body a aggressive Corvette chase car. While the RPO numbers afflicted hardly through 1962, the basal racer kit amalgamation remained the same, except for added able fuel-injected 283 and 327 engines.

A few words about the C1’s structure. The C1 anatomy and abeyance are generally afield alleged “parts bin” cars. This is not correct. C1s all ride on the aforementioned basal bureaucracy that was advised by Maurice Olley, GM’s top abeyance man, who was advised the best in the industry in his day. The aboriginal C1 was not advised to be a chase car and Duntov declared the Corvette as a “wiggle wagon” afterwards his aboriginal analysis clue experience. All of Duntov and Rose’s abeyance development consisted of changes to abeyance settings, ascent points, shocks and springs, amplitude confined and brakes. Aside from bolt-on genitalia and ascent points, the frame, suspension, and brakes of a 1953-’62 Corvette are about identical. Olley’s design, with Duntov and Rose’s help, fabricated racer kit Corvettes a force to be reckoned with from 1957 to 1962. Let’s attending at antagonism results.

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The racer kit accustomed in 1957 and in the able easily of Dr. Dick Thompson and Gaston Audrey, Corvette won their chic at Sebring. Thompson went on to win the 1957 SCCA B/Production class. With the hardly beyond 1958 model, Jim Jeffords’ Purple People Eater was around angry and won the SCCA B/Production Championship in 1958 and 1959. In 1960, one of the Briggs Cunningham-prepared 1960 Corvettes placed 8th in the GT chic at Le Mans. In 1961, Dr. Dick Thompson collection the Grady Davis 1961 B/Production Corvette to an SCCA championship. The car won every chase that year. And lastly, in 1962, Dr. Dick Thompson collection the Grady Davis Gulf Oil 1962 A/Production Corvette to a championship and Don Yenko’s Corvette won the SCCA B/Production championship.

In retrospect, antagonism Corvettes, application Maurice Olley’s anatomy and suspension, forth with the assorted racer kits engineered by Duntov and Rose, bedeviled SCCA A/Production and B/Production classes for bristles years. The C1 Corvette was not a genitalia bin car.

And lastly, let’s allocution about price. From the beginning, Corvettes accept consistently been a exceptional automobile. The 1953 archetypal had a abject amount of $3,498. That was appealing steep, because that a basal 1953 Chevy 150 Special two-door auto started at $1,613 and a Cadillac Series 62 Hardtop Coupe started at $3,571. You could get a Cadillac with every gee-wiz advantage accessible in 1953, while the Corvette had one blush (white) and two options; an AM signal-seeking radio and a heater. Brainstorm that, the boiler was alternative and the car didn’t alike accept roll-up windows. A loaded 1953 Corvette could amount $3,734. Harley Earl gave abroad abounding of the 300 1953 Corvettes as ability and for promotional use. The accepted 6-foot 4-inch amateur John Wayne was able a 1953 Corvette. We can brainstorm how blessed the big man was with the little Corvette with snap-up ancillary windows. He charge accept anticipation Chevy was nuts. By 1962, Corvette barter had seven colors to accept from and 19 options. The abject amount of a 1962 Corvette was $4,038. The abutting big-ticket 1962 Chevy was the $3,068 Impala, V-8 four-door wagon. A absolutely loaded 1962 Corvette amount about $5,300; again, Cadillac Series 62 priced.

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The C1 Corvette came in like a agnostic aerial academy brawl queen and went out a rip-snortin’ artery brawler and antagonism champion. The aberration amid the two is night-and-day, but all based on the aforementioned platform, with a ton of improvements. Duntov and his aggregation advance the development and adorning efforts for artery Corvettes and Duntov and Mauri Rose fabricated abiding Chevrolet-engineered antagonism genitalia were available. In 1959, Chevrolet offered the Sports Car Equipment Guide for Corvettes that explains how to auspiciously chase your 1959 Corvette. You can download the PDF adaptation from GMHeritageCenter.com. While C1 achievement Corvettes aren’t “in-your-face” like today’s Z06, but they were absolutely a force to be reckoned with. C1 Corvettes tend to get disregarded because their breed were so abundant better.

K. Scott Teeters has been a accidental artisan and biographer with Vette annual back 1976 aback the annual was titled, Vette Quarterly. Scott’s Corvette art can be apparent at www.illustratedcorvetteseries.com. His beef car and homesickness annoyance antagonism art can be begin at www.precision-illustration.com.

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