The National Corvette Museum is Refreshing Zora Arkus-Duntov’s Personal 1974 Corvette

If you happen to be at the National Corvette Museum for the annual Bash April 24-26, be sure to check out the work-in-progress on the refreshening of Zora Arkus-Duntov’s personal Corvette.

After he retired as chief engineer of the Corvette in 1975, Zora finally purchased his first Corvette – a fully loaded ’74 Stingray with a 454 engine that he drove on a regular basis for many years before he sold it in 1989, complete with a custom two-tone blue paint job. Upon Arkus-Duntov’s death in 1996, the second owner donated it to the National Corvette Museum, where you may have seen it on display for years along with Zora’s ashes.

For such an important car historically speaking, the NCM recently decided it was time to give Zora’s Corvette a little refreshening in his honor.

They have already separated the body and chassis, allowing them to weld new metal on the rusty parts of the frame and then seal it all up with rust preventative coating. The refreshened front and rear suspension were then reinstalled, along with the rebuilt 454 engine.

The NCM says it won’t be doing any work on the body, which just happens to include Zora’s initials on the doors, and they expect the project to be completed in August, which means visitors will be able to watch the project for a few months while it’s still going on.

Source:
Hagerty.com

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