Hard-core Corvette fans know Zora Arkus-Duntov and the contributions he bestowed over his two-plus decades at General Motors. Anticipating the arrival of the next-generation C8 Corvette adorned ...

Zora Arkus-Duntov was born with the name Zachary Arkus in Brussels, Belgium, on Christmas Day 1909 to Russian nationals. Zora's mother, Rachel Kogan, left his birth father and married an ...

Zora Arkus-Duntov, a Russian born in Belgium who came to America on the eve of World War II, managed to work his way into General Motors and became both the car's first chief engineer and the ...

Zora Seemed Like The Perfect Name. Zora Arkus-Duntov was no ordinary engineer. He turned the Corvette into a true sports car, ...

When Duntov was hired to work at Chevrolet on May 1, 1953, th Arguably, there had never been a chief engineer of an American car the likes of Zora Arkus-Duntov. MotorTrend ...

After a long series of letters and interviews, on May 1, 1953, Zora Arkus-Duntov was hired by GM to work in the Chevrolet Engineering Department under Maurice Olley, with a starting salary of $14,000.

Editor's note: Zora Arkus-Duntov, a man whose name was synonymous with high-performance cars and especially with the Chevrolet Corvette, passed away on April 21, 1996. He was 86 years old. This ...

For a man bestowed with a title so grand as “Father of the Corvette” it is fascinating that Zora Duntov was only barely a ...

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After years of speculation about Chevrolet making a Corvette Zora, it is now a real car you'll soon be able to buy. While the ...

Zora Arkus-Duntov was part of the team that put the small-block V-8 into the Corvette in 1955. Following that, he was named director of high-performance vehicles at Chevrolet in 1957.

Zora Arkus-Duntov: The Engineer Who Was Right About the Mid-Engine Corvette All Along. 19 Nov 2022, 09:07 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Today, let's take a deep dive into the life of the man who was ...