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Corvette Timeline Tales: July 1962 – Production of the “Lightweight” aka Grand Sport Begins

Corvette Timeline Tales: July 1962 – Production of the “Lightweight” aka Grand Sport Begins

By July 1962, with the overall design completed, including an all-aluminum fuel-injected 327 version of the street Corvette Fuelie engine, production began on just enough cars to qualify the Lightweight as a “production” car. The rest of the story is very well known and documented.

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