Zero to 60 MPH In 11 Secs? Meet The Slowest Corvettes Ever | Carscoops carscoops
because Chevy’s legendary small-block didn’t land until 1955. Zero to 60 mph took 11 seconds, the quarter mile needed 18 seconds, and it was all done by 108 mph , after whichOkay, so we are talking almost 70 years ago, when 11 seconds to 60 mph was nowhere near as mind-numbingly dull as it is today, but when Chevy dropped in the new 195 hp , performance improved so dramatically it underlined how slow the original inline six was.
Which still doesn’t sound that great until you consider that in a Motor Trend comparison test between a 1959 Corvette and a1966 Corvette – 0-60 mph 8.3 secondshit dealers in late ’62 as a 1963 model, the 1960s horsepower war was heating up. The hottest first-year C2 was the fuel-injected 327 cu-in small block that blew past the magic 1 hp-per cube mark to deliver 360 hp, and, according toIn contrast, the stock engine, which was by far the most popular version, made just 250 hp.
Three years later, when most journalists were getting frothy over the L72 427 big block V8 and its 425 hp rating,Car Life ’s C3 convertible took a leisurely 8.3 seconds to greet 60 mph, compared to 5.7 seconds for the manual-equipped 427 the magazine tested the same month.Up until the early 1970s the general trend was that new Corvettes would be faster than the ones they replaced. Though curb weights crept up over the years, so did power.
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