[PICS] Another Zora Easter Egg? This C8 Corvette Has The Original Chief Engineer’s Stamp Of Approval

Photo Credit: Ryan Jaycox / Facebook

It looks like there might be another “Zora Head” Easter Egg now gracing the C8 Corvettes!

Ryan Jaycox posted a video and pics of his find to the C8 Corvette Owners (and friends) page on Facebook. During a service stop at his Chevrolet dealer, Ryan was checking out the underbody as it was on the lift and spied the stamping of Zora on the underbody panel.

Ryan posted to the group saying “Today was the first time I’ve been under my C8 and I thought this was AWESOME, check out what’s stamped on the bottom.”

The video is inconclusive about the exact location of the stamping with Ryan adding “if I remember right it was stamped towards the center of the bottom.”.

Chevy’s Corvette Engineers have used the Zora Head badges since the beginning of the program. Inside General Motors, the C8 Corvette was codenamed ZERV, a nod to Zora’s CERV program (Chevrolet Engineering Research Vehicle) in the 1960s. If you didn’t have a Zora Head on your GM ID, you couldn’t get into the secure areas where development was taking place. The team would tell us whenever they were confronted with a problem, they would ask “What would Zora do?” for guidance.

The Zora Head badges were revealed to the public in April 2019 when Corvette Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter drove GM’s CEO, Mary Barra, in a camouflaged C8 Corvette prototype featuring the stickers in New York City. At the end of September, the badges began showing up as printed on the bottom of the passenger-side of the front windshield.

Zora Arkus-Duntov advocated for the Corvette to go mid-engine after racer John Fitch was nearly cooked in a front-engine Corvette racecar. Over the years a number of mid-engine and rear-engine prototypes were produced, but Zora found resistance to the plan at every turn. After he retired in 1975, his successor Dave McLellan would also take a look at a mid-engine Corvette and despite several new mid-ship Corvettes built for styling and engineering purposes, it would languish until the current team began exploring the concept back in the mid-2000s.

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Ryan Jaycox / Facebook

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