Vintage Corvette Advertisement - Pleasure Package

...Motor Life, in the January 1957 issue on the road test of Corvette with fuel injection. "The results were little short of amazing. A number of 0-60 miles-per-hour runs in opposite directions averaged out at 6.8 seconds. The fastest was 6.7 seconds." If Motor Life thought Corvette amazing...

...Tom McCahill, in the December, 1956 article, went a step beyond in enthusiasm. He says, "The job I tested was the standard Corvette with fuel injection that was more of a general use car. Here's what this general use car can do-0-60 miles per hour in 6.2 seconds; 0-80 miles per hour, 11 seconds; 0-100, 17 seconds." But power is only part of the Corvette story.

The new Corvette also provides the pleasure of tight handling and sure-footed roadability. Foundation for it all...

...is the rugged, box-girder frame, with special X-type bracing. The strongest, safest frame construction possible. Trigger handling comes from...

...tight, quick, 16:1 steering, new fast-acting brakes, advanced front suspension design, and a road-hugging center of gravity. All this means...

...fast, flat cornering, and lightning-like sprinting on the straightaway. In this the Corvette excels, not only over all passenger cars, but over other sports-type cars too. And the proof is written into the record books in the most famous competition events in America. First...

...Daytona Beach, Florida. Here is where, in January 1956, a standard production Corvette established the official world's record for acceleration and flying mile speeds.

Here are the official certificates awarded to the Corvette by NASCAR. In the two-way acceleration test, the Corvette averaged 90.932 mph. The Corvette average for the two-way flying mile-50.533 mph-beat the previous record by nearly 26 miles an hour. A month later, at the Speed Week trials...

...the only two Corvettes entered took first and second places with average flying mile speeds of 145.543 and 137.773 miles an hour. And in March 1956...

...the Corvette competed against the best cars and drivers of many nations, amassed at Sebring, Florida. For 12 hours, the field duels over the slick straightaway, suicide-curved, 5-mile course. With a pace like this, no wonder that...

...of the 60 cars entered, including the most expensive foreign cars, complete with special factory equipment and top-flight professional drivers, just 24 cars finished. Three of these finishers were Corvettes.

Two of the Corvettes, a modified model and a completely stock model, both won top honors in their class at Sebring, the first victories ever registered by American production sports cars in international sports car competition up to that day.