Hard-core Corvette fans know Zora Arkus-Duntov and the contributions he bestowed over his two-plus decades at General Motors. Anticipating the arrival of the next-generation C8 Corvette adorned ...

Zora Arkus-Duntov was born with the name Zachary Arkus in Brussels, Belgium, on Christmas Day 1909 to Russian nationals. Zora's mother, Rachel Kogan, left his birth father and married an ...

Zora Arkus-Duntov, a Russian born in Belgium who came to America on the eve of World War II, managed to work his way into General Motors and became both the car's first chief engineer and the ...

Editor's note: Zora Arkus-Duntov, a man whose name was synonymous with high-performance cars and especially with the Chevrolet Corvette, passed away on April 21, 1996. He was 86 years old.

After a long series of letters and interviews, on May 1, 1953, Zora Arkus-Duntov was hired by GM to work in the Chevrolet Engineering Department under Maurice Olley, with a starting salary of $14,000.

When Duntov was hired to work at Chevrolet on May 1, 1953, th Arguably, there had never been a chief engineer of an American car the likes of Zora Arkus-Duntov. MotorTrend ...

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Zora Arkus-Duntov was part of the team that put the small-block V-8 into the Corvette in 1955. Following that, he was named director of high-performance vehicles at Chevrolet in 1957.

Few knowledgeable enthusiasts say the name Corvette without a silent nod to its patron saint, Zora Arkus-Duntov. While the Russian engineer often is incorrectly called the "father of the Corvette ...

Arkus-Duntov, considered the father of the Corvette, grew up in St. Petersburg during the Russian Revolution, moved to Paris in the 1930s, then in 1940 fled the Nazis and came to the United States.