Once that first eight-pot got a spot underneath a Corvette's hood, the rest was history. More and more V8 options continued to be offered following that 1955 model year. As a matter of fact ...

The Blue Flame Six is Corvette’s first engine, based on the architecture of an inline-six-cylinder Chevrolet truck engine known as the Stovebolt Six. Chevrolet engineers took that truck engine ...