Re: Ex122
Mike:
One of the perplexing problems with John Amgwert's 1993(?) article about the early Corvettes was this letter and Russ' memory track. In 1956 when he bought the car, he was virtually en route to a new job assignment with Rochester Products as one of the lead engineers on a complicated way to deliver fuel to the combustion chamber. Russ was retired in Scottsdale at the time and I took some of John's material and explained what he had found. Russ acknowledged "losing track" of which car was which and reminded me that at the time, "things were just a little busy" when they were giving birth to what became the 1955 Chevrolet. It was also a consequence of his job that when they were in production, he was working on something 2 or 3 years down the road. He commented that it was a "wonderful time to be an engineer at Chevrolet - it was always interesting.".
Mike:
One of the perplexing problems with John Amgwert's 1993(?) article about the early Corvettes was this letter and Russ' memory track. In 1956 when he bought the car, he was virtually en route to a new job assignment with Rochester Products as one of the lead engineers on a complicated way to deliver fuel to the combustion chamber. Russ was retired in Scottsdale at the time and I took some of John's material and explained what he had found. Russ acknowledged "losing track" of which car was which and reminded me that at the time, "things were just a little busy" when they were giving birth to what became the 1955 Chevrolet. It was also a consequence of his job that when they were in production, he was working on something 2 or 3 years down the road. He commented that it was a "wonderful time to be an engineer at Chevrolet - it was always interesting.".
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