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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Louis Chevrolet

The Louis Chevrolet Memorial, by the Louis Chevrolet Memorial Committee (oversized pamphlet, ? 1976, $6, which is 1/3 the current internet price.)

Louis Chevrolet came to the States in 1900. He had only had a grammar school education, but that didn't stop him from making a difference in the world. He won races for 20 of the early years of auto racing. He also designed and built the first "Chevrolet" cars and trucks. During WWI he was the VP and chief engineer for American Motors. In the early 1920s he developed a cylinder head which could extract greater horsepower from a Ford Model T. engine, making it competitive in dirt track races. Then the cylinder head was put into Ford's Model T pleasure cars, and the rest, as they say, is history. Chevrolet went on to developing plane engines, but the depression made that project impossible. Still, what an amazing man! Look for this pamphlet in the glass front case.