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My first Vet was a 1954 unrestored car that was featured in … The only remaining hurdle was the issue of the expensive dual-clutch transmission (DCT) it would likely need. I like what I see here, but it doesn’t reach out far enough.”, “Roger Smith’s visit threw us into a lot of activity,” Palmer later said. Lutz further noted that both were “stunning.” He suggested asking Design VP Ed Welburn for photos of the Corvette version. Jerry Palmer and Henry Haga of GM Design Staff designed a sleek silver body for the resulting machine, known as XP-882.
He adds that an ME Corvette convertible would be an especially difficult challenge because stacking the top above the V-8 (as opposed to above a Porsche Boxster flat six, for example) would make the rear too tall.
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.
But while those cars created a lot of buzz within the industry, they never generated substantial public demand for an ME model. 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. Cover Car! In our last issue, we chronicled Zora Arkus-Duntov’s relentless—and ultimately fruitless—quest to bring an ME Corvette to market during his tenure as the brand’s chief engineer. As we know, the C7 program was revived and brilliantly executed by new Corvette chief engineer Tadge Juechter and his team after GM emerged from its 2009 government-managed bankruptcy. Try that on a Corvette customer.”. This amount includes seller specified domestic shipping charges as well as applicable international shipping, handling, and other fees. 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. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins.
He also questions ME serviceability: “The mid-engine layout makes service difficult, so it’s fortunate that engines today are so reliable. OCTOBER 1983 KEEPIN' TRACK OF VETTES 1968 Corvette Jerry Palmer Corvette GTP, {"modules":["unloadOptimization","bandwidthDetection"],"unloadOptimization":{"browsers":{"Firefox":true,"Chrome":true}},"bandwidthDetection":{"url":"https://ir.ebaystatic.com/cr/v/c1/thirtysevens.jpg","maxViews":4,"imgSize":37,"expiry":300000,"timeout":250}}.
This amount is subject to change until you make payment. “It was like a license to steal. He had us going off and looking at mid-engines and at all sorts of far-out stuff that really doesn’t apply at all. That's how I got involved in the project.''. 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. This amount is subject to change until you make payment. Palmer says this Speedster shouldn't really come as a big surprise. “Unfortunately,” McLellan wrote in his 2002 book, Corvette from the Inside, “Styling management was still in love with the mid-engine Corvette, because it gave them the opportunity to radically change the proportions of the car.” And an ME car obviously could be lower and sleeker without an engine up front. Iovino previously did interior ergonomic work on 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. We met a year ago on the Route 66 tour, and I told him what I wanted to work on, what I'd been thinking about. Get the item you ordered or get your money back. One of the first steps was to take 10 inches off the windshield. Jerry Palmer is Executive Director of Design for General Motors North American Operations. ``Finally, Cafaro said, `Just saw the damned thing off.' ``Remember,'' he says, ``[Cafaro] played with speedsters and spiders in the '80s.
Get the item you ordered or get your money back. Duntov, meanwhile, retired in 1975, leaving the direction of future-Corvette development in the hands of two competing entities within GM.
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