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Dave McLellan, retired Corvette Chief Engineer and author of a book on the Corvette brings you a podcast with an inside look at the Corvette. With almost two decade experience as Corvette Chief Engineer and then Engineering Director and his time spent with his predecessor Zora Arkus-Duntov he has a myriad of stories to tell that will be of interest any Corvette enthusiast. Some of these stories he told in his book, Corvette From the Inside, but many of them will be new. Dave will also discus ...
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022 Corvette Chief – Dave Cole
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Click Red Play Button In this episode, I share part 1 of an interview with Dave Cole. Dave’s father was Ed Cole, the Chief Engineer and then General Manager of Chevrolet. Ed was one of the gentlemen responsible for bringing the Corvette to life. Right Click Here To Download This Episode In mp3 FormDe către podcast – Corvette Chief
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Click Red Play Button In this episode, I share with you the genesis of the book I have written on the Corvette. It is written from the perspective of an insider who led the team and helped make it all happen for 17 years of Corvette history. The book allows the reader to approach the story at three levels, in pictures with captions, as the main str…
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Click Red Play Button Every Corvette enthusiast should talk a trip to the home of Corvette Assembly and the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY. The plant tour is a good visual experience, but there is so much more that is unseen. It is the unseen engineering and processing that makes it possible for the car to go together right the first…
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Click Red Play Button This year Mid America celebrated the Corvette’s that ran in the million dollar Corvette Challenge race series of 1988-9. I took this as an opportunity to share with you the genesis of these cars and how Corvette racing between 1985 and 1989 led to the ZR-1 of 1990. Right Click Here To Download This Episode In mp3 Form…
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Click Red Play Button Mike Yager Mike Yager is Chief Cheerleader (President) of Mid America Motor Works. As a thanks to its Corvette customers, Mid America hosts Fun Fest in mid September each year at it’s Effingham, IL headquarters. Who would believe that 15,000 Corvettes and 45,000 customers would head for a corn field in southern Illinois for th…
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I’m going to change the subject on you and talk about architecture, specifically the McLellan House. Our home was designed for my wife Glenda and myself in 1969 by a student and lifetime colleague of Frank Lloyd Wright, John H. Howe. Living here for almost 40 years has been an extraordinary experience. I’ll show you in pictures what I mean. Right-C…
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Click Red Play Button Lance Miller Lance Miller, son of the late Chip Miller. Like his dad, he is one of most respected and likeable guys in the Corvette hobby. Right Click Here To Download This Episode In mp3 FormDe către podcast – Corvette Chief
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Click Red Play Button This is Part 2 of 2 on Fuel Economy Corvette fuel economy is a topic that affects the pocketbook of Corvette drivers but one that too few of us want to talk about it when we can talk about performance. So, ready or not, here is the lowdown on fuel economy, a topic that affects the performance of your car and along with emissio…
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014 Corvette Chief – Fuel Economy Part 01
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Click Red Play Button Corvette fuel economy is a topic that affects the pocketbook of Corvette drivers but one that too few of us want to talk about it when we can talk about performance. So, ready or not, here is the lowdown on fuel economy, a topic that affects the performance of your car and along with emissions defines the performance that is p…
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Click Red Play Button Reeves of Callaway Cars fame and I go way back to the time in 1986 when we made the decision to go for a naturally aspirated 4 cam engine (the LT5). We shared with Reeves the work we had done up to that point to develop a twin turbo Corvette. Reeves took this and made it his own, producing the Callaway Twin Turbo Corvette. Thi…
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