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11 unusual facts about corvette


Aluminum Model Toys

Newcomer MPC (Model Products Corporation) entered the arena in 1964 with their Corvette kit, followed by 1965 promotionals of the Dodge car line.

Anthony Catanese

After leaving Florida Atlantic University in 2002, it was disclosed that a $42,000 red Corvette had been purchased by the FAU Foundation for Catanese as a going away present.

Carl Saltzmann

Of his pictures resulting from these journeys may be mentioned "Corvette Prince Adalbert in the Strait of Magellan" (1883, Breslau Museum), "In the Pacific Ocean" (1888, German Emperor), and "Arrival of the Hohenzollern at Kronstadt" (Emperor of Russia).

Carroll Knicely

While serving in the state's Commerce Cabinet as commissioner, he helped secure the location of the General Motors Corvette plant in Bowling Green in 1981.

ECRATER

The most expensive item ever sold on eCRATER to date was a 2005 Chevrolet Corvette.

Homeworld 2

All units in Homeworld 2 are starships of various classes, from small to large: Fighter, Corvette, Frigate and Capital Ship.

Joseph Brodak

Brodak was an employee at the Tech Center at General Motors in Centerline, Michigan, when he lost his job for stealing a Corvette from the employee parking lot.

Lars Grimsrud

Grimsrud routinely travels from his home in Lafayette, Colorado, to hold technical seminars for ad hoc groups of Corvette Forum members.

Lars Grimsrud is an aerospace engineer and performance automobile enthusiast who has become a celebrity amongst owners of carbureted Chevrolet Corvettes and GM muscle cars for his skill at tuning their engines.

Seymour Island

The plaque was placed on 10 November 1903 by the crew of the Argentinian Corvette Uruguay on a mission to rescue the members of the Swedish expedition led by Otto Nordenskiöld.

Vítor Baptista

Batista returned home after a couple of weeks, in spite of being handed a US$2.5 million contract and a Corvette.


Aconit

French corvette Aconit, a corvette of the Second World War, from the Free French naval forces, recipient of the Ordre de la Libération

Anton Haus

Returning to a seagoing command, Haus was commander of a corvette during the multinational intervention in the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900/01.

Associated Electrics

A modified RC10 with an off-the-shelf Parma International 1963 Chevrolet Corvette body was used in the famous chase scene in the 1988 motion picture, The Dead Pool.

Auburn State Recreation Area

A stunt from the 2002 film xXx was filmed in the park, in which a Corvette is driven off the Foresthill Bridge while the driver parachutes to safety.

Burak-class corvette

Burak-class corvette (Turkish: Burak sınıfı korvet), aka B-class corvette, is a warship class of the Turkish Navy, all ex-D'Estienne d'Orves class A69 type Aviso corvettes, mainly designed for coastal anti-submarine defense and ocean escort missions.

Carlos Condell

At the beginning of the War of the Pacific (April 5, 1879), Condell was already promoted to Corvette Captain in charge of the corvette Abtao, and was commissioned the blockade of the port of Iquique, a Peruvian possession at that time.

Clubhouses

He has bought a red Corvette convertible, is wearing an earring, flirts with girls at traffic lights and turns up at the aforementioned party in Cartman's clubhouse organized by the runaway girls.

Corvette Summer

The novelization of Corvette Summer was written by Wayland Drew and was published by the New American Library of Canada in 1978.

Dick Bosman

His daily ride is a fire red 1936 Chevy two-door sedan with a 330 horsepower (246 kW) Corvette engine, cruise control, air conditioning and power windows.

Disappearance of Robin Graham

Seventeen years later, an ad appeared in the Los Angeles Times classifieds which caught the attention of the Graham family as well as KFI disc jockey Geoff Edwards, who read it on the air: "DEAREST ROBIN You ran out of gas on the Hollywood Frwy. A man in a Corvette pulled over to help. You've not been seen of since. It's been 17 years, but it's always just yesterday. Still looking for you (signed) THE ECHO PARK DUCKS."

Dominik Schwager

This expanded in 2008 when Schwager entered the new ADAC GT Masters series in a Callaway Corvette and won three races.

German submarine U-413

There, she sank the British vessel Wanstead south of Greenland, whose survivors were picked up by the corvette HMS Poppy and the ASW (anti-submarine warfare) HMS Northern Gift.

GM Kappa platform

Another concept car, built by Holden and called the Torana TT36, was rumored to have started as a Kappa-based car with a twin-turbocharged V6, but the modifications necessary to accommodate the engine, transmission, and general vehicle size made it necessary to refer to the platform as "based on architecture similar to the Kappa and the Corvette."

Greek corvette Loudovikos

Loudovikos was a corvette of the Hellenic Navy built in 1838 at the Poros Naval Shipyard, designed by naval architect Georgios Tombazis.

HMS Calypso

HMS Calypso (1883), a Calypso-class corvette launched in 1883, used as a training ship for the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve from 1902, renamed HMS Briton in 1916, sold in 1922 and used as a storage hulk, and now awash north of Lewisporte.

HMS Fleche

HMS Fleche was the French 14-gun corvette Fleche launched in 1768 that the British captured in 1794; she wrecked in the bay of San Fiorenzo in November 1795.

Japanese destroyer Yukikaze

During her time in service, she sank one People's Liberation Army Navy corvette and lightly damaged another during 1957, prior to the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis.

Jean-François Cagnet

The expedition sailed in two corvettes: the Géographe and the Naturaliste, in order to chart the coast of New Holland (now Australia), to make scientific observations and to collect biological specimens.

John Bentinck

In the following November, he captured off Morlaix the French corvette Epreuve, carrying 14 guns and 136 men.

Johnny Podres

Podres was given the first-ever World Series MVP Award by Sport magazine and presented with a red two-seater Corvette.

Jorge Eduardo Acosta

Jorge Eduardo Acosta (27 May 1941), alias "el Tigre" ("The Tiger") was an Argentine captain of corvette, head of the Work Group (Grupo de Tareas) 3.3.2 of the ESMA naval school and in charge of this detention center during the Dirty War.

Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux

With F. A. Souleyet and Auguste-Nicolas Vaillant Voyage autour du monde exécuté pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette La Bonite, commandée par M. Vaillant capitaine de vaisseau, publié par ordre du roi sous les auspices du département de la Marine. Zoologie 2 vols.Bertrand, Paris, 15 vols.

Kasturi-class frigate

Both ships are presently serving with 22 Corvette Squadron and homeported at TLDM Lumut.

Laksamana Hang Nadim

A Laksamana Class Corvette of the Royal Malaysian Navy has been named KD Hang Nadim in his honour.

Larz Anderson Auto Museum

A sampling of these events includes days devoted to American V8s, British cars, Cadillac LaSalles, Camaros and Firebirds, Corvettes, German cars, hot rods, Italian cars, Japanese motorcycles, Mercedes-Benz, Miatas, microcars & mincars, Packards and other extinct autos, Porsches and Studebakers.

Lewis Billups

Six days later, Billups died in a car crash when driving at speeds in excess of 100 mph he lost control on Interstate 4 his corvette convertible destroying over 50 meters of steel railing.

Lingenfelter Performance Engineering

These numbers match the performance figures of the C4 Corvette and GMC Syclones/Typhoons of that era.

Miguel Malvar

The Miguel Malvar class corvette, named after Malvar, is a ship class of patrol corvettes of the Philippine Navy, and are currently its oldest class of corvettes.

Nexus: The Jupiter Incident

Cromwell sets out on the SpaceTech Heavy Corvette, the Stiletto, for Jupiter.

Nikki Corvette

Originally, they played mainly cover songs as well as a few original songs written by Corvette and her former boyfriend Peter James, who had played with The Romantics.

Performax International

With the introduction of a Government regulated industry, Performax began to acquire further accreditation to cover a wide range of vehicle types such as Hummer H2, Corvette, Plymouth Prowler, Ford Mustang, Suburban, Denali, Tahoe and Chevrolet Camaro.

Posyet Bay

The crew of the French corvette Caprice visited the bay in 1852, giving it the name of d'Anville.

PR-72P-class corvette

Pennant numbers were originally P-101 to P-106, but were later modified to CM-21 to CM-26, where CM stands for corbeta misilera, Spanish for guided missile corvette.

SS Norisle

Her engines were actually designed and built for a Royal Canadian Navy corvette, however because of the end of the war, they were put into the Norisle instead.

Strahan

HMAS Strahan, Bathurst class corvette serving during World War II

Type 037-II-class missile boat

The Type 037-II (NATO codename: Houjian class) is a missile equipped corvette built by Huangpu Shipyard of Guangzhou for the People's Liberation Army Navy.

War of the Pacific

Peruvian Navy: 2 ironclad, 2 coastal monitors, 1 corvette, 1 gunboat

December 1880

William Hennah

Hennah became a lieutenant in the general promotion at the outbreak of the French Revolutionary War in 1793, but afterwards had little opportunity for distinction until 1800, when he participated in a boat raid on the Morbihan river in which the French corvette Réloaise was burnt.

Zelee Subglacial Trench

The feature was delineated by the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI)-NSF-TUD airborne radio echo sounding program, 1967-79, and named after the corvette Zelee (Lt. Charles Jacquinot) of the French expedition, 1837–40 (Capt. Jules Dumont d'Urville).