Author: Jerry Burton
Edition: 2nd
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 432
Release Date: 24-09-2021
Details: Product Description Zora Arkus\-Duntov: The Legend Behind Corvette tells the story of how a gifted engineer brought up by Russian Revolutionary parents became the guiding force behind the legendary American sports car, and in the process attained the elite status of American legend himself. Author Jerry Burton, founding editor and current editorial director of Corvette Quarterly, has worked with many of Zora\x27s friends and colleagues, as well as his widow Elfi, to write the first major biography of Zora Arkus\-Duntov. Burton has illustrated his book with hundreds of unpublished photos, blueprints, and archival documents.This book puts Duntov in the perspective needed to understand his achievements as a Russian\-Jewish immigrant fighting to make his mark at General Motors. Review Burton's comprehensive tome on the life and times of arguably the most fascinating personality associated with the Corvette is a must-read. The founding editor and current editorial director of Corvette Quarterly magazine spent five years interviewing the associates, friends, and family members of Mr. Arkus-Duntov to bring to life the personal side of this one-of-a-kind engineer, race driver, risk taker, man about town, and corporate mover and shaker. Burton takes the reader from Zora's early boyhood in revolutionary Russia, through the harrowing times in Nazi Germany, escapades at speed on the great racetracks of Europe, hot-rod parts manufacturing in the United States, and finally the immigrant Jew's determined rise to respectability at General Motors. This book is a captivating glimpse behind the scenes of the onetime director of high performance for Chevrolet, Corvette's first chief engineer, and, above all, indefatigable champion of GMs two-seater. --Motor Trend, April 2003 About the Author Jerry Burton is an automotive historian and advertising creative director known particularly for his 20-year history as editor and publisher of Corvette Quarterly magazine. During his career Burton wrote many performance-oriented ads for Corvette and Chevrolet. It was in this capacity that he authored the Heartbeat of America theme line for Chevrolet in the mid 1980s. These activities helped spawn his acquaintance and later his friendship with Zora Arkus-Duntov and his wife Elfi. As Jerry came to know Zora personally, his desire to paint an accurate picture of this fascinating and complex man developed into the ultimate biography of Zora Arkus-Duntov: the Legend Behind Corvette. Burton has written several other books including Corvette: America’s Sports Car and he co-authored 100 Years of Chevrolet. Jerry was inducted into the National Corvette Museum Hall of Fame in 2014. He and his wife Nancy live in West Bloomfield, Michigan.
EAN: 9780837617756
Package Dimensions: 9.3 x 8.2 x 1.1 inches
Languages: English