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 ...

Early models offered a “Blue Flame” six-cylinder engine ... automatic and manual transmissions found with the C2 Corvette. The C3 Chevrolet Corvette is a polarizing entry into the classic ...

and Chevrolet wanted the Corvette to be the sports car of the future. Fortunately, minds were changed. If nothing else, we can thank the Blue Flame Six for not only bringing us the Corvette but ...