Corvette: America's Sports Car: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

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336

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3220 g

Erschienen bei:

Universe Books

Beschreibung

During its more than 50-year history, the Corvette has developed into much more than an automotive nameplate - it has become one of the world's most recognized automobiles. How the Chevrolet Corvette came to be one of the most popular sports cars in the world - and the longest-running automotive nameplate in Chevrolet history - is a rich and compelling story that combines politics, passion, performance, design, and popular culture. This uniquely sleek and sexy American car has become a worldwide icon much like the Coca-Cola symbol, McDonald´s arches, or Marilyn Monroe. It is a symbol of freedom, speed, power, and fun. "Corvette: America´s Sports Car. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" documents the genesis and evolution of this treasured American icon through many never-before-published photographs from the archives of General Motors as well as a comprehensive story drawn from exclusive interviews with the risk-taking engineers and designers who defied conventional thinking to create this uniquely American automobile. "Corvette: America´s Sports Car. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" celebrates America´s beloved sports car in a stylishly handsome volume, with a custom cover design in Corvette red proudly bearing a sixth-generation Corvette crossed-flags hood emblem.

Portrait

Jerry Burton, the editor of Corvette Quarterly magazine and the award-winning biographer of Corvette´s first chief engineer, the legendary Russian Zora Arkus-Duntov, is one of the Corvette´s foremost historians. Burton has been intimately involved in the Corvette world for over twenty-five years and was on the founding board of directors for the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He lives in suburban Detroit.

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Mehr von:  Jerry Burton, Universe Books