[DeTomaso] chaparalls/FWIW/Dick Ruzzin

[Dickruzzindesign at aol.com]

It was a special time. 
I worked at the GM Tech Center in Warren, Michigan at Design Staff.
Our building was across the street from Engineering Staff. Behind it was a 
short track about a mile long with a loop at each end.   Chevrolet Engineering 
was behind that and it had ab
out four big bright blue stacks which contained dynamometers.

Often we would hear, from inside our building, engines running at full 
throttle in the dyno stacks about a half mile away. The noise was deafening.   

Once, at lunch hour, driving   alongside the track I saw a Corvette Grande 
Sport flash by going the other way. Of course I did not know what it was. Later, 
talking to my boss, Dave Holls, about it, he told me what it was. He proposed 
the name to Duntov, one that was associated with a historic performance car 
of some kind.

I worked in the big Chevrolet Studio, designing Impalas and Monte Carlos at 
that time, but there was no doubt that to all of us that Chevrolet was a very 
spirited organization. Chevrolets and especially Corvettes were causing a lot 
of excitement in the race world. 

I think that todays Corvette lives up very well to that heritage. 

All the best,

Dick Ruzzin________________________dickruzzinDESIGN at aol.com
920 Whittier Rd.
Grosse Pointe Park, MI 48230
Home: 313-824-0539 / Cell: 313-300-9554



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