Corvette Chief - David McLellan - CorvetteChief.com
Summary: Dave McLellan, retired Corvette Chief Engineer and author of a book on the Corvette brings you a podcast with an inside look at the Corvette. With almost two decade experience as Corvette Chief Engineer and then Engineering Director and his time spent with his predecessor Zora Arkus-Duntov he has a myriad of stories to tell that will be of interest any Corvette enthusiast. Some of these stories he told in his book, Corvette From the Inside, but many of them will be new. Dave will also discuss the newest Corvettes and their performance variants. He also plans to draw on Corvette engineers past and present, letting them tell about their contributions to this legendary brand.
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Zora Arkus-Duntov, the Corvette SS and The 12 Hours of Sebring, 1957 After Zora drove a 1956 Corvette at 150 mph on the sand beach at Daytona Florida, his Chief Engineer, Ed Cole, wanted him to take the Corvette racing. After a fitful first start in the 1956 Sebring 12 Hour race, Zora showed up the following year with the car he really wanted to go racing with, the Corvette SS. Sebring was a race that attracted the world’s best race drivers and the manufacturers who sold their cars based on their racing success. The white test “mule” for the SS was a sensation in practice. Juan Manuel Fangio was faster in it than the previous year’s lap record. As you will see in this video it was also driven in practice by Sterling Moss. The late arriving Corvette SS is also featured with its eventual drivers, John Fitch (Corvette Hall of Fame) and Piero Taruffi. A total lack of testing before the race plagued the SS and led to its early withdrawl. Zora’s plan to race the SS in the Le Mans 24 Hour race that June was dashed when GM agreed to the Automobile Manufacturers Association (AMA) ban on racing. Right Click To Download
Click Red Play Button Dick Guldstrand races. Even at 80 he still races. He first started racing Corvettes in the late ‘50s when Zora began Chevrolet’s clandestine support of Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) racing. All these years Dick has been a friend of the Corvette and has enjoyed a symbiotic relationship with the marquis. We built them and he jazzes them up for his customers all over the world. Dick is a proud member of the Corvette Hall of Fame. Please have a listen and be sure to leave a comment and let Dave know what you think. Right Click To Download
Click Red Play Button Dave Ferguson is one of the National Corvette Restorers Society (NCRS) judges for his favorite Corvettes the ‘53 through ’57 models. Dave was imprinted with a love for the Corvette in high school. Two careers later he is back. Along the way he enjoyed careers as a fighter pilot, as a test pilot and as head of flight operations for the Lockheed Skunk Works where he flew the U2, A12, F117A and had first flight in the YF22. Please have a listen and be sure to leave a comment and let Dave know what you think. Right Click To Download
Click Red Play Button In this fourth episode of the Corvette Chief Podcast, Dave shares his thoughts on the most recent High Performance Corvettes. We are very excited about the launch of the Corvette Chief Podcast and the response from each of you in the comments area of the posts. Dave is already working working on the next round of podcast episodes as well as a few video installments as well. Please have a listen and be sure to leave a comment and let Dave know what you think. Right Click To Download
Click Red Play Button In this third episode of the Corvette Chief Podcast, Dave answers the question, "What is a Corvette?" He says, "I think we all think we know what a Corvette is..." In this episode, Dave shares how the Corvette came into being. Please have a listen and be sure to leave a comment and let Dave know what you think. Right Click To Download
Click Red Play Button In this second episode of the Corvette Chief Podcast, Dave shares audio from a 1960 Test Drive given by Zora Arkus-Duntov of the 1961 Corvette. Please have a listen and be sure to leave a comment and let Dave know what you think. Right Click To Download
Click Red Play Button Welcome to the first episode of the Corvette Chief Podcast. In this episode, Dave discusses the rumors surrounding a possible future mid-engine Corvette. He shares that rumors of a mid-engine Corvette have been flying since the 1960's. Dave sheds some light on the rumor that started some time last Fall of the C7 being a mid-engine Corvette. Dave shares, in this podcast, the reaction that he has received when he has ran into the current corvette engineering team at various events. In this episode, there is valuable insight into the history of a mid-engine Corvette as it relates to the various proposals of the research and development of the Corvette program. Please have a listen and be sure to leave a comment and let Dave know what you think. Right Click To Download
