Topic: Zora Arkus-Duntov
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I'm extremely glad that Zora has a section dedicated to him. Zora was Born in Belgian on December 25, 1909. His parents later moved back to Leningrad, where his parents divorced. Zora's mother remarried there to a man named Duntov, hence the Arkus-Duntov, double last names. Even though he came along after the 53 Corvette.......he pushed engineering/performance to market the real American Performance Car that we sort of worship today (at least I do). He is know as the Father of the Corvette.
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No Dennis. I think it was Dorkus and The Chinerberry Tree. Yer hafta ask Joel. He'll know.
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[QUOTE=my7T1]What is the exact month and day of his 100th? I'd like to organize a cruise with the club I belong to here in Grand Rapids , MI to commemorate. Seems like we've been corrected before on this Barry. He was no Rooshki, he was a Belgiumshki.
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as far i know he was a " west-vlaming"
, lived near Oostende , which is 1/2 h drive for me....
[/QUOTE]as far i know he was a " west-vlaming"
, lived near Oostende , which is 1/2 h drive for me....
I think it was Zora and the tinkelberry tree. I will have to get it back from Zoe to see for sure. 
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Usually good reading here.
My kids got me this book for Christmas. I started reading it 12/26/07 and got about half way through it.
It is a great biography, written by Jerry Burton.
He loved to race and he loved the women.
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Dutov evidently was a cool dude...........loved to race........loved the women. He definitaly was ALL PERFORMANCE IN MANY WAYS!!! A true red blooded American
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[QUOTE=BelgiumBarry] as far i know he was a " west-vlaming" [/QUOTE]
HEY!?!? Can you say that here??????
It was "Zora and the Chinaberry Tree", and yes, I'm still p*$$*d about it...thanks for bringing it back up....
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HEY!?!? Can you say that here??????
It was "Zora and the Chinaberry Tree", and yes, I'm still p*$$*d about it...thanks for bringing it back up....
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[QUOTE=dnv]Now you've gone and done it. That book is a VERY sore subject on this site. You might as well read Dora and the Dingleberry tree, or whatever it was called...[/QUOTE]
Why a sore subject? The book is a little slow in places and could use additional facts/information in other places, but it's not all that bad.
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