Zora Arkus-Duntov

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Zora Arkus-Duntov was a brilliant engineer, a daring racecar driver, and the "godfather" of the Corvette. He was the first man to hold the title of chief engineer for the Corvette program and was responsible for transforming that car from merely an attractive-looking roadster to the powerful American sports car it has become. Zora was born Zachary Arkus on Christmas Day, 1909 in Belgium to parents of Russian-Jewish descent. wiki.gmnext
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  • National Corvette Museum -...

    He was a risk taker, a daring race driver, a brilliant engineer, and an opportunist. Reckless, Resourceful, and Resilient. Zora Arkus-Duntov was all these things. Car enthusiasts know Duntov as the patron saint of the Corvette. But he was much more th
    www.corvettemuseum.com/library-archives/hof/duntov.shtml

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  • Hemmings Motor News: Zora...

    To most people, the legend of Zora Arkus-Duntov begins in 1953, when the engineer stood shoulder-to-shoulder with scores of New Yorkers, in awe of the Motorama Corvette twirling around on the turntable and promising, for the first time, a real American sp
    www.hemmings.com/mus/stories/2007/03/01/hmn_feature15.html

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    In 1927, his family moved to Berlin. While his early boyhood ambition was to become a streetcar driver, streetcars later gave way to motorcycles and cars. His firs motorized vehicle was a 350cc motorcycle, which he rode at nearby racetracks as well as t
    www.idavette.net/HistFact/zora.htm

  • Jew of the Day - Zora...

    Born to Russian parents in 1909, Duntov lived through the revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, where his mother lager had an affair with the artist marc Chagall. And Duntov's willful reckless nature showed itself early, with the teenager shooting his way thr
    www.jewoftheday.com/categories/science/Duntov%20Zora.htm