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 C3 Corvette deserved a hard-hitting small-block of its own. Zora Duntov, the mechanical demigod from Chevrolet, had never laid down its wrenches in the face of corporate foot-in-mouth strategies.
Despite looking the way it does, this car has a single flaw: it is an automatic. The C8 has no manual available yet, but the future Corvette Zora is expected to get one.
The 1957 Chevy Corvette SS, known internally at GM as Project XP-64, was developed under the watchful eye of Zora Arkus-Duntov, who would soon become Chevrolet’s Director of High Performance ...
It was also the first ’Vette with independent rear suspension and, important for track competitors, the first to offer the race-ready Z06 package, the work of Corvette engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov ...