Autoweek may earn money from the links on this page. “The mid engine Corvette Indy series [including CERV III] was interesting in that it used a drivable backbone that tied powertrain and suspension rigidly together with an isolated body,” McLellan notes today. Will usually ship within 1 business day of receiving cleared payment. Worse, the Corvette was in imminent danger of being sucked into GM’s downsizing mania. Something went wrong. Get the item you ordered or get your money back. Jerry Palmer is Executive Director of Design for General Motors North American Operations. Our mission? It was basically the Speedster. Share on Facebook - opens in a new window or tab, Share on Twitter - opens in a new window or tab, Share on Pinterest - opens in a new window or tab.

If you Buy It Now, you'll only be purchasing this item. “An alternative might be to fold the top and then swing it rearward behind the engine,” McLellan says. Its styling previewed the roof shape and some other styling elements of what would eventually become the fifth-generation Corvette. • In case the decision was still pending, Ford’s surprise introduction of its spectacular, ME 2016 GT at this year’s NAIAS probably sealed it. There are 1 items available. Please enter 5 or 9 numbers for the ZIP Code. Earn up to 5x points when you use your eBay Mastercard. GM designer Jerry Palmer created a stunning exterior with a steeply raked windshield, split-folding gullwing doors, and digital instruments using early LCD technology. No additional import charges at delivery! What follows is an account of what has happened under the four chief engineers who followed, up to and including today’s persistent rumors that such a car may finally be in the works for production as soon as 2016. Excludes: Central America and Caribbean, Angola, Cameroon, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Djibouti, French Polynesia, Honduras, Libya, Mongolia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Suriname, Guyana, Panama, Mauritius, Somalia, Brunei Darussalam, Chad, Madagascar, New Caledonia, Western Samoa, Bahamas, Bermuda, Iran, Jamaica, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Western Sahara, Wallis and Futuna, Nepal, Bolivia, Mali, Fiji, Gambia, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Papua New Guinea, Congo, Republic of the, Seychelles, Sudan, Guadeloupe, Uganda, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Burma, Antigua and Barbuda, Burundi, Cuba, Republic of, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Kiribati, Reunion, Yemen, Aruba, Barbados, Belize, Ghana, Grenada, Haiti, Liberia, Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, Central African Republic, Comoros, Martinique, Tuvalu, Dominica, Lebanon, Niger. Qualifying purchases could enjoy No Interest if paid in full in 6 months on purchases of $99 or more. The car appeared at the 1970 New York Auto Show, and while it caused a sensation, it wouldn’t be available with a manual transmission and wouldn’t provide any significant increase in performance.

Among its other features were a low-drag (0.277 Cd) body built from aluminum-reinforced carbon fiber, Nomex and Kevlar; Lamborghini-type “scissors” doors housing racing-style fuel cells; an active suspension to keep the car flat during hard braking and cornering; and computer-controlled rear steering to tighten its turning circle and improve high-speed stability. But while those cars created a lot of buzz within the industry, they never generated substantial public demand for an ME model. Get the item you ordered or get your money back. 1983 Designer Jerry Palmer 'Creating the Corvette' Review Design print article, Recent sales price provided by the seller. When GM pulled the plug on its $50 million rotary-engine gambit, the 4-Rotor—it debuted at the 1973 Paris auto show—was given conventional V-8 power and re-christened the Aerovette. Some design-staff sources say that if anything, Cafaro's role on C6 will increase with time, not decrease. Once we arrive (and nearly right on time), we see that this house contains a little shop that makes Hendrick Motorsports look like a dump. GM was part owner of British carbuilder/racer Lotus at the time (and would soon acquire all of it), so one key objective of the project was to showcase Lotus’ advanced technology, including active suspension and four-wheel steering, along with the twin-turbo Indy-racing engine then being developed by England’s Ilmor Engineering. Sellers declare the item's customs value and must comply with customs declaration laws. Please enter a number less than or equal to 1. Any international shipping and import charges are paid in part to Pitney Bowes Inc. International shipping and import charges paid to Pitney Bowes Inc. International shipping paid to Pitney Bowes Inc. Any international shipping is paid in part to Pitney Bowes Inc. 30 day returns. Nothing outlandish, nothing too... too much. For additional information, see the Global Shipping Program.

It was seen at the time as GM’s final try at a production ME Corvette. © 2020 National Corvette Museum. The former debuted at the 1988 Detroit show with a 380-hp, quad-cam, 32-valve, 5.7-liter V-8 (an early version of the C4 ZR-1’s Lotus-designed LT5) in place of the previous racing engine. Duntov Award WinnerBy Jerry Palmer The “FIND” of an Original 1962 Corvette Having been bitten by the Corvette bug many years ago, I always keep my eye out for original cars in need of restoration. He's a great ambassador for the Corvette, and we can't lose that.''. The C5, originally scheduled to launch for the 1993 model year, soon slipped to 1994. In 1979, as new Chief Engineer Dave McLellan and his team were ramping up work on a next-generation model, GM Styling still envisioned an ME design. marks, but no holes or tears. Watch NHRA's DeJoria Escape Huge Fireball in Texas. “We also had the concept for the transaxle backbone design that became the C5. We reviewed both with the engine guys, and they rejected the structural backbone that bolted the engine rigidly to it as too radical. The more they studied the proposition, the more Wallace and his staff became convinced that they could bring a mid-engine car to market at a relatively affordable price. CERV III’s engine was mounted transversely, as in the Corvette Indy concepts, powering all four wheels through a six-speed automatic transaxle (actually a three-speed Hydramatic driving a custom two-speed gearbox) and advanced, viscous-coupled 4WD. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of.

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Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. GM could counter with a 700-plus-hp, turbo- or supercharged V-8 ZR1, or “Zora,” at half that price and many times that volume. We didn’t on C6, because that was a very evolutionary [car], but we did on C7. Palmer was largely responsible for the design of the four rotor-Aerovette, which he notes was the most challenging design of his career, and led to the inspiration for many of the features for his design of the Fourth Generation Corvette. For additional information, see the Global Shipping Program. - eBay Money Back Guarantee - opens in new window or tab, United States and many other countries But Design VP Jordan had his own agenda. Sad to Say That the Rumor About the GT350 Is True, Petty Not 100% Sold on NASCAR Getting Dirty Again, This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. Cover Car!

As it was, Styling modeled several more mid-engine concepts, and we in Corvette Engineering had to be the bad guys.”, Worse, the Corvette was in imminent danger of being sucked into GM’s downsizing mania.

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It's not like that. “It was like a license to steal. My first Vet was a 1954 unrestored car that was featured in the February 2011 Bonding Strip. At dinner, Cafaro said, `We're thinking alike, because we've got a Speedster half done in Detroit.' Corvette set sales records in the 1970s despite reduced power due to emissions and fuel-economy requirements, and Chevrolet had sold nearly 617,000 of them by 1979. “Technology has moved on from where Duntov was in the ’70s,” McLellan says. It would be fully competitive (or better) vs. Ferrari, McLaren, Porsche and other hybrid-powered exotics at a much lower price. With four-wheel drive and huge tires (275/40ZR17 front, 315/35ZR17 rear), its estimated 0-60 performance was under five seconds and its top speed over 180 mph. One of the first steps was to take 10 inches off the windshield.

“Duntov and the press had spent a decade trying to convince Corvette enthusiasts that the next new Corvette should be mid-engined. If you'd like to get the additional items you've selected to qualify for this offer. We wasted a lot of time looking at things that we’ll never, ever do.”. Share on Facebook - opens in a new window or tab, Share on Twitter - opens in a new window or tab, Share on Pinterest - opens in a new window or tab. After receiving the item, contact seller within, Money back or replacement (buyer's choice).

Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff. I’ve been told there are mid-engine Ferrari models where you have to remove the engine from the car to change spark plugs. “In parallel with Styling, and in spite of the direction of our own management, we started an engineering study of a mid-engine V-6 Corvette in Chevrolet Research and Development.”. Still, here are three good reasons why we think it’s for real: • When this author interviewed former GM product vice chairman Bob Lutz for last year’s “Twice Killed, Twice Saved” stories, he noted that when Wallace and Juechter were investigating whether to go ME for the C7, GM Design did sketches and clay models of an ME Corvette and a Cadillac version that could have been the next Cadillac XLR.

That doesn't answer why the Speedster was done in a house, instead of in-house at GM's Warren, Michigan, Tech Center. ``Finally, Cafaro said, `Just saw the damned thing off.' International shipment of items may be subject to customs processing and additional charges. Not likely at GM; Chrysler, maybe, but not GM. Mini Plans EV Crossovers, but When Will They Land? Strongly positive media and public reaction to the Corvette Indy led to two more versions, a slightly toned-down show car and a running prototype, both just 43 inches high with T-tops (for structural rigidity) and doors that swung up and forward.

The PayPal Credit account is issued by Synchrony Bank. “Chevrolet management rejected the mid-engine V-6 because there was still no clamor for a mid-engine Corvette among the owner group. [I]t was pretty much ‘skunk works,’ pretty quiet, but we had architectural studies and a clay model of how its proportions would change and what it might look like.”, One of Wallace’s goals was to drop the median age of the Corvette buyer, which had been climbing every year. “You should photograph the C7 coupe next to a Ford GT and ask which is mid-engine,” McLellan suggests. For additional information, see the Global Shipping Program. OCTOBER 1983 KEEPIN' TRACK OF VETTES MAGAZINE VOL 8 #3 Corvette Chief Designer Jerry Palmer Vette Alert Corvette GTP Chevy's newest Corvette is mid-engined 1968 Corvette third generation From Daytona to Pocono to Road America Corvette Carlisle For Kids Sake Drags Mr Badwrench other stories. But when we did, Welburn responded very strongly that he would not release them. Excludes: Angola, Cameroon, Cayman Islands, Djibouti, French Polynesia, Libya, Mongolia, Ecuador, Suriname, Guyana, Mauritius, Somalia, Chad, Madagascar, New Caledonia, Western Samoa, Iran, Western Sahara, Wallis and Futuna, Nepal, Mali, Fiji, Gambia, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Papua New Guinea, Congo, Republic of the, Seychelles, Sudan, Uganda, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Burma, Burundi, Cuba, Republic of, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Kiribati, Yemen, Ghana, Haiti, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Central African Republic, Comoros, Tuvalu, Lebanon, Niger.

Damn this construction, it's making us late. “[Styling studio chief] Jerry Palmer had his designers and studio engineers resize the mid-engine Four-Rotor Corvette around the corporation’s new 2.8-liter V-6,” McLellan continued.



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