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"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69) 05/28/2020 at 05:56 • Filed to: late night oppo, Chev, Chevrolet, Chevy, GM, General Motors, Corvette, c1957, carsoftumblr

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Chevrolet Corvette SS (c1957) - (project XP-64)

a racing version of the Corvette developed by Zora Arkus-Duntov (pictured in the car), that used a 283ci V8 with alloy heads and Ramjet fuel injection producing about 307hp. the car was forced to retire due to mechanical problems after 23 laps in the 1957 Sebring 12-hour race, and the project was shelved.

Rufant > pip bip - choose Corrour 05/28/2020 at 06:45

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When are you going to do a book? :p

pip bip - choose Corrour > Rufant 05/28/2020 at 06:46

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never.

i lift most of these posts from tumblr.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > pip bip - choose Corrour 05/28/2020 at 08:23

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I actually got to see this Cor vette in person

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/extremely-late-ault-park-photo-dump-part-1-1159765352

pip bip - choose Corrour > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/28/2020 at 08:32

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nice one

:)

camaroboy68ss > pip bip - choose Corrour 05/28/2020 at 10:00

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Another fact is that this car was the first to use the Super Sport name that would come back in 1961 as the performance option we all know of today. One of the reasons the car was shelved after the failed Sebring race was the first AMA ban that GM and other automakers agreed to. As this was clearly a factory built race car it was dumped. It was easier to hide the NASCAR and drag racing involvement as those programs continued untill 1963, right as Duntov started messing with the Grand Sport Corvettes.