An unusual piece of Toronado history.

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An unusual piece of Toronado history.

Postby 66Toro » Tue Jun 10, 2014 2:59 pm

Have been enamored by the '66 lines - appreciating the seeing her sleek and sexy lines and hearing the deep growl as she pulled into the driveway way back when. Since I was a 5 year old kid - was a perfect height seeing 6 feet of a chromed grill and the flip up headlights at eye level.

WOW!!!

Back in '66 - didn't see anything like her until '68 when my neighbor pulled in with a new '68 Stingray. Was too young and ignorant to know that the cars were mechanical cousins from the same family - GM. All I knew was recalling similar features they had -both shared big block engines with massive carbs, dual exhaust, and those sexy flip up headlights. As if someone shrunk the Toronado.

Here is where I uncovered another common aspect joining these cars in their past within the book written by Dave McLellan (Corvette Chief Engineer '75-'92) entitled 'Corvette from the Inside'. Dave recounted the early development and mechanical aspects of the early prototypes in the late 1960's with the previous Corvette Engineer; Zora ArKus Duntov. Duntov was trying to develop a race-inspired Corvette with a big block configuration and four-wheel drive. During this development - he used the Toronado drive-train as a foundation and modified to accomodate an additional rear driveshaft. (pg. 61-62).

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Re: An unusual piece of Toronado history.

Postby Shan » Wed Oct 29, 2014 4:56 am

Back in '66 - didn't see anything like her until '68 when my neighbor pulled in with a new '68 Stingray. Was too young and ignorant to know that the cars were mechanical cousins from the same family - GM. All I knew was recalling similar features they had -both shared big block engines with massive carbs, dual exhaust, and those sexy flip up headlights. As if someone shrunk the Toronado.
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