Chevrolet Corvette ZL-1
There are times when a car's legend is out of all proportion to its impact on the marketplace. So it is with the 1969 ZL-1-equipped Chevrolet Corvette. Over the years the ZL-1 has taken on mythic proportions as a vehicle and as an objet d'art. One recent retrospective on the car claimed that it had a top speed of 200 miles per hour. Another suggests that it could sprint through the quarter mile in just 10 seconds. And though there is a temptation to foster the legend by repeating statistics as fact, the fact is that, while the ZL-1 Corvette was a formidable street performance car, it was incapable of achieving either of those numbers. Damn few street cars of any era are.

Chevrolet Corvette C5
Despite its claim to fame as "America's sports car," the road has never been easy for the Chevrolet Corvette. Despite a crowd-pleasingly scrumptious body, the car almost died in its infancy when its low-tech Chevy parts-bin underpinnings and high price/low performance ratio got it off to a dreary start. After all, what 50's sports car aficionado wanted a car equipped with a twenty-year-old six-banger and a two-speed automatic trans? And, at the same time, what bucks-up Eisenhower-era luxury car buyer wanted to spend twice the average American family income on a two-seater that didn't even have roll-up windows? Only the divine intervention of the fabled Chevy small-block V-8 saved the car from oblivion.

Best Chevrolet Excited for Chevrolet's Presence at SXSW
NEW ORLEANS, March 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Best Chevrolet, a Chevy dealership in New Orleans, is excited for what's to come at Chevrolet's Sound Garage at the annual South by Southwest Music Festival(SXSW) in Austin, TX.

Chevrolet "Stovebolt" Six
In truth, there was nothing very remarkable about the engine, except that it was engineered to be built very economically, but the basic design was so sound that it would continue to power Chevrolets into the mid-1950s. One reason for its longevity was the fact that the engineers who developed it were literally forced to make it an overhead valve-design rather than the seemingly obvious L-(flat)head. L-head designs were much simpler and thus cheaper to manufacture, but Chevrolet had long been known for its "valve-in-head" four-cylinder engines, so Chevrolet marketing execs like Richard Grant insisted that the new design boast overhead valves.