(21 reviews)Author: Randy Leffingwell
ISBN : 0760342318
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Through hundreds of rare and unpublished photos from GM's media and design archives and in-depth text by renowned Corvette historian Randy Leffingwell, Corvette Sixty Years celebrates the first six decades of America’s sports car, covering the revolution and evolution of America’s longest continuously produced nameplate, from Harley Earl’s initial concept to the latest 60th anniversary edition built to celebrate the Vette’s 60th year. Created in cooperation with General Motors, the book focuses as much on the Corvette’s place in popular culture as it does on the engineering and design history. This book offers something for everyone who has ever lusted after a Vette. From the inaugural 1953 Corvette to today’s stunning sixth-generation car, Corvette Sixty Years touches on all aspects of Chevrolet’s iconic sports car: history, racing, period ads, posters, memorabilia, key designers like Bill Mitchell, engineers like the fabled Zora Arkus-Duntov, celebrity Vette fans, and more. For Corvette fans, it’s an ultimate celebration of America’s most famous car.
- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Motorbooks; First edition (June 4, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0760342318
- ISBN-13: 978-0760342312
- Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 9.8 x 12 inches
- Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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I've been collecting car magazines and car books since the mid-'60s. My library has gotten larger than I ever imagined. There's one book that I accidentally bought three times. I have four different versions of essentially the same book authored by Randy Leffingwell and published by Motorbooks. All four versions are very nice books, loaded with excellent images and well written prose by Leffingwell. But each time I bought the book online, I thought I was getting a different book because the covers and sizes are all different.
So, when I saw that Motorbooks was publishing "Corvette Sixty Years," I was holding out in hopes of a totally new book and not a shuffled around version of the previous "Corvette Fifty Years" with some updated C5 and C6 material. I was NOT disappointed! Leffingwell and MBI have delivered the goods! The book is, for me, a visual delight. You see, when you have as many books and magazines as I have, you've probably seem nearly all of the old vintage photos showing the design and development work on the Corvette. At least, that's what I thought!
Those rascals at GM Media Archive have clearly been holding out on us! The book designers at MBI made ample use of what may be newly released, or seldom used GM archive photographs. While it's true that during the design process of any car, many photographs are taken. But over six decades, I seriously doubt that "every" photo was saved. Most of us in the Corvette community have seen about 1/4 of the GM Media Archive photos used in the book, but the rest (and there are plenty) are delicious to Corvette history/nostalgia buffs like myself. The rest of the wonderful imagery is supplied by the talents of the Ed Baumgarten, Dave Wendt, David Newhardt, Randy Leffingwell, and National Corvette Museum.
I just got this book and I am so happy, It is a great read and full of Pictures I have not seen before from GM's archives.There are some that I have seen and some photos I have seen as well,But the way it put together and the cars in here.I Love the section "XPs,The Q and Ocean Aggressors."I love the black and white GM Archive Picture of a Corvette in Puerto Rico,at the First Grand Prix of Puerto Rico at Auto Pista De Caguas,A Beautiful 66'427 Roadster in Laguna Blue,The Apollo 12 Astronauts Corvettes(3 pictured in color,small picture.No mention though of The Color,which is Riverside Gold/Black)And the then there is the 63'Daytona Blue Coupe with Red Interior(of which there is an AutoArt Model of which I have.)While there may be some typos(blame China Printer)and It is a short Book to read(more condensed.)I Still Love this book,It does not Cover/include the Centennial Edition 100th Anniversary Corvettes or The Daytona Prototype Racer Corvettes which is fine since The book went to press before this.However,there is the 2013 60th Anniversary Corvette Roadster as well as the NEW Grand Sport Corvette,New ZR1.There are some great photos of Zora and The CERV 1,Also The Alpha And Beta Cars that Were Developments for the C5,A Beautiful Silver(Custom Painted) 54' owned By Roger Crispell that worked for Harley Earl.As well as A Beautiful Big Color Shot from the Archives of the 1959 Stingray Racer/Concept with a Modification to the hood that has a see through Cover and Looks like the same configuration the car had in the Elvis Movie Clambake;The 1981 Turbo Corvette at a Show,The Corvette Summer Car,The Death Race 2000 Car,The Bat-Vette(67'),and a Photo of Duntov and His Duntov Corvette.A lot of Good Stuff in here.An Racing Corvette that raced at Raleigh I've never seen.
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