1969 Chevrolet Corvette XP-856 Aero Coupe?

This image was on a yearly Corvette desk calendar. It is identified as a Corvette XP-856, but I’ve never seen it before. Does anybody know what this is?

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Aerovette Brochure

A rare brochure showing the development of the Aerovette. It was first known as the Four-Rotor Corvette because it was designed to have a four-rotor rotary engine. Because of emissions and fuel economy issues, GM scrapped the rotary engine, and they replaced with a 350 V8 in the Aerovette. It was also known as the [...]

Oldsmobile Presents Futuramic Design, 1948

Theater advertisements for the first all-new automobile to be placed on the market after World War II, the Oldsmobile Futuramic. From Archive.org. Length 03:29.

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Zora Arkus Duntov and the Sounds of a 1961 Corvette

Years ago I had this neighbor, Marge, who was seriously into opera. She had several three foot wide closets with four shelves each filled with LP albums. A small bedroom served as her sound enclosure. There were two five-foot high speakers, an old Macintosh tube amp with no cover, and the best turntable you could [...]

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Lost Techniques—352 Pluvius Pencil on Newsprint

By Bill Porter I found a couple of my old Pontiac Studio sketches from the late ’50s–early ’60s era that were not selected for the Designing an Icon show that will be opening at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston on September 24, 2009. I believe the show will run for [...]