S1 Ep90: Why the Mid-Engine Corvette Took 60 Years to Make
Past Gas
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4.9 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Just a couple years ago, the world finally got its first Mid-Engine Corvette. Today on Past Gas, the epic, decades-long story of how we finally reached that point. It’s a story that starts with hiding out from the Nazis in a French brothel, and only gets wilder from there. What were the incredible experimental cars that Chevy scrapped, how did last minute business blunders hold the project back, and who were the geniuses who finally made it possible? It’s a mid-engine LEGEND on today’s podcast.
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| 1:37.7 | Weeks after the French surrender to the oncoming storm of Nazi forces, |
| 1:42.2 | a young man named Zora Arcas Duntab hit in the backroom of a brothel with his brother |
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