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* Both CorvetteBlogger and the New York Times this week ran stories this week on the very first Corvette, the Motorama Corvette also known as XP-122, returning to the ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, 58 years after it was introduced there. * Our friends over at BigLorryBlog this week filled us in […]
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The theoretical advantage to gas turbines, besides their ability to swallow up a wide range of fuels, is their relative lightness and compactness compared to other internal combustion engines (gasoline, diesel) of the same output. Boeing decided to illustrate that advantage with this press photo we recently scrounged up, dated April 10, 1950, showing one […]
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* As the Corvette Blog and Jalopnik reported this week, Thursday was the 50th anniversary of Alan Shepard’s spaceflight. To commemorate the event, about 30 surviving astronauts will gather in Florida today for a parade, and they will be driven in at least one Corvette from each generation of the model to celebrate the long-standing […]
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