1959 Chevrolet Corvette 283 Fuel Injection Muscle Car Of The Week Episode
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- Опубликовано: 2 мар 2017
- 1959 Chevrolet Corvette 283 Fuel Injection Muscle Car Of The Week Episode #192 Video
The Brothers Collection is home to an armada of Muscle Corvettes, and this one… well it’s over the top. Sure, 1959 was far before the official Muscle Car era began, and it is America's Sportscar, but this Crown Sapphire roadster is sporting the hottest performance goodies underneath it’s mesmerizing exterior.
The Corvette was in it’s 6th year of production by ‘59, and the this Fuelie V8 version is a world apart from the original Blue Flame 6 found in the ‘53 model. The Rochester fuel injection first appeared in the 1957 car, and was still intriguing in 1959.
This 283 V8 is stuffed with Regular Production Option code 579D, which added a high-lift camshaft delivering 290 HP and 290 ft. lbs. Of torque from the 9.5:1 compression pushrod fuel injected V8. By 1959, the Corvette was just starting to make some progress mixing it up with European cars on the global sportscar racing scene, but even hand-built exotics didn’t offer the technology and performance of the assembly line built Corvette. Just 745 ‘59s were fuel injected.
The performance upgrades don’t end when you close the hood, as this car also features option package 684, which beefed up the suspension with aggressive rate springs and shock absorbers, an upgraded front sway bar, and a quicker-ratio steering system. This car also has a wild set of fins inside the brake drums that pull air through the backing plates to keep the brakes cool to reduce fading. Only 142 or so 1959 Corvettes had this option, making this a very worthy member of a spot among the other rare Corvettes in The Brothers Collection.
The 4-speed manual gearbox kept the driver occupied, and the output spun a 3.70 rear gear and 15x5” wheels. This one is wearing attractive wide whitewall tires and full hubcaps, but a ½” wider wheel and small cap were optional.
Inside, Chevrolet designers made a few subtle improvements to make this car a little more comfortable to drive for ‘59. The speedometer featured a concave lense to reduce glare, and the interior door handles were relocated away from the elbows, but the 1959 Corvette was still a car you didn’t just drive, you wore it like a suit. And what a great looking suit this one is!
Corvettes have always looked futuristic, and the ‘59 no doubt stood out in the sea of giant tall-tail finned sleds of the day. It’s a small car, only weighing around 3000 lbs, and it featured the signature fiberglass body. The wrap around windshield looked spacy, and the long nose / short deck design had classic sportscar proportions. The toothy grille is very 1950s GM in style, but the small chrome bumpers and thin bright trim are very light in appearance and are quite contrary to the giant push bar bumpers of other 1959 models.
The stylish side coves flow perfectly with the front wheel opening and profile of the car, and the white insert provides an appealing contrast to the body color. And that color! Crown Sapphire was the second-least produced Corvette color for 1959, but the acquiescent hue and metallic glimmer had the whole Muscle Car Of The Week production team spellbound like gnats to a neon on old route ‘66 while shooting this episode. Too cool.
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Absolutely Gorgeous, and Performance to match!
What a beautiful car
Thanks for the explanation of the Rochester fuel injection system.
Love the 4 headlights of the 58 and 59. Love the 57's too. Great video!
Love love love it❤
If if I ever ever win the lottery that vett is first in my bucket list ❤❤❤
Yes this is not a muscle car, this is the father af all the further muscle cars
Absolutely beautiful!
One of the most beautiful cars, ever. I have a C7, but if I didn't already have that, I'd have a C1.
Splendid series of videos. Many, many thanks.
Gorgeous, timeless art that rolls.
2020
An Amazing, Beautiful car.
An Amazing Window into 1959, showing us the ebullence and optimism of America at this point in history.
Another Amazing Performance by Kevin, the Champion of automotive reviewers.
Absolutely beautiful car in every way, thank you for sharing this with us.
I have always considered some of the late 60s/early 70s big block Vettes to be real deal muscle cars. love this '59. I have one. awesome cars.
Very informative, intelligent, no-BS presentation. & a Beautiful C1 !!
This car is perfect.
Sports cars cover a very wide spectrum of vehicles. I’ve always classified Corvettes as muscle sports cars.
Thanks again for all that you guys do, its an awesome channel to watch. me and my boy always look forward to seeing whats next. keep up the hard work for us all to see those amazing cars !! Oh and a special thanks goes out to the Brothers for sharing their awesome collection.
On Forza the x box game, that is the colour I chose with cream infills. Best looking car in the world
What a beautiful color and i love those twin headlights on each side.
Had one just like it same color loved it ,stolen and totaled ,miss it to this very day.the new ones are fantastic ,but the old school 59's have class.
My uncle has a 59 that was originally a fuelley. Sadly, he took the fueley out and replaced it with a carbureated Vortec 5.7 and a 4L60E. I'd love to get it and make it original again and have it right next to my 74.
Drawn like knats to a neon is a phrase that steps out over the line. Kevin, you get the point across eloquently.
Ha, thanks!!
those dreamy lines never cease to amaze
Just Beautiful!!!
'59 and '60 are some of my favorite Corvettes. I really like the color of this one. Seems like it wasn't running right.
My cousin had a 60 model Corvette and he built the 283 engine in 1969, swore that he walked Goats all day long with it.
Wonderful specimen!
This is absolutely gorgeous... never saw this color before, at first I thought you guys were using some weird filter!
290 horsepower in 1959 ! Sounds like a Muscle Car to me.
great job !! that car is amazing
Who are “the brothers?” I love your dialogue, thank you!
I love the C1 corvette, but I really love them in gasser form.
Me too. 57 is the best looking Vette I think...especially as a gasser
what a car man it have the looks and the power of V8 and the name chvey in Saudi it ALL you need 😉
Great Job. Great Car!
Love it! Would love to have it.
I enjoyed this and subscribed
God that is gorgeous!
Miller has one!
Been watching almost every show sometimes twice on some cars. Kevin and the brothers awesome,even tho it's short on the drive all cars get a good flogging no matter what
I can't add anything to what's already been said about this car other than just to say it's so gorgeous it belongs in a museum. I'd hate to put it on the road and risk injury to it with all the crazy, careless, inconsiderate drivers on the roads these days. A real keeper. To the owner: don't sell it unless it's all you have in the World, you're homeless and are starving! The C2 is a timeless design and we car guys know there won't be any more. It represents a time in automotive history just prior to the '60s factory Muscle Cars that rolled out of Detroit, i.e. turn-key factory Super Stocks.
Its a C1
love the color.
Muscle car: a fairly higher performance variant of a less powerful car. This Corvette qualifies. As does a Hudson Hornet. As does a Studebaker Lark R2. Or a 455 Olds Cutlass Vista Cruiser Wagon with otherwise 442 options from 1972. May vehicles eligible. Enjoy the variety.
Muscle car = BB in Intermediate.
Very cool!
beautiful
I love this car I’ve often wondered what it would be like with a straight 6 Jaguar engine
My uncle has a 1959 Corvette that was factory fuel injected. He got tired of fighting it so he pulled the 283 and powerglide and replaced them with a Vortec 5.7 and 700R4. As a Corvette guy, it makes me sad to see such a rare car have its original engine pulled out, but at the same time, it's not my car.
Damn, are all Corvettes awesome!
I'd like you to review a Supercharged 1957 T-Bird (if they have one). I don't care if it's a muscle car as such, as I realize you must to be running low on muscle cars by now. BTW, I'd love to see the whole collection anyway.
I'd love to see them do a video on a F-Code supercharged 57 Ford Fairlane or Custom series sedan. One of my favorite 50's cars. They do have an F-Code 57 Ranchero in the collection
I want!
Me too
'59 was a great year for so many things...maybe not in Bel Air's, but Corvettes, Les Paul's and hemi cars?
Cool
I'll take it
You guys need to show a 409 chevy full size car
Root through the vid's. Pretty sure there's one or two.
BubbaSmurft can you give me a link because all I can find is one of a 66 427 chevy ??? Thanks
this person knows a thing or two about this 1959 Chevrolet Corvette motor
Such a gorgeous ride. That dash cluster is still the coolest of any car, in my opinion. But I noticed something. Freeze frame on time stamp 6:17 and look at the split rear bumpers. What in the hell happened there? The right rear bumper is WAY lower than the driver's side rear bumper. It looks a whole inch lower, in relation to the trunk lid seam. Surely they all weren't made that way. That car is WAY TOO NICE to allow that to remain like that. It's very easily noticed too.
Wow, that's crazy! You're right, it's WAY off..
Most of DEALER MECHS.Even Had Trouble Figuring Out These Ram Jet Mech.F. Inj.Systems ,For A Few Years,To The Early New Owners Woes.Guy in HS Had One & Finally Gave Up W/ Dealer Mechs. & Got A Mech. From Germany To Get it Right ,That Had An Independent.Shop in ATL. Area,That Made A Pretty Good Living ,Because He Could Master These Early F.Inj.Corvettes & Few 57 & Up Bel Air That Had It
Looking at my 59, it looks like the left hand side is siting to high
@@angekattts22 Does it look as bad as the one in this video? Because this one is "off" really bad, for such a beautiful car. You can just glance at this one and see how bad it is. But with yours, if ya have to stare at it a minute to even notice, it's probably nowhere near as bad. I KNOW that can be fixed, and if I had the money these guys had, and with such a nice, RARE car, I would find the best shop to make that right. But it still leaves me wondering: are ALL of the 59's like this? Because if they are, and if this car was given to me, I could live with it, lol.
Why is not a muscle car..? It was fast in its time my father had one..i dare not argue with him😎
It's a sports car
@@jeremythompson9122 its a sports car with muscle..girls like that!
Corvette's are 2 seater sports cars
@@andrewashington6462 True. Girls love Vette's
A Stradivarius on four wheels.
Ha, this guy looks like the retired Rams center Andy Mccollum.
Cheeky bit of Bruce
More modern injection than the crossfire
I had a '59 w. 2x4 bbl 270 hp in the late sixties. Black on black. Bought and sold for around $800. Sigh.
The Corvette is all muscle car in the 60's..i dont why you think it wasnt. Could you get the 427 in Camaro or Chevelle? Not stock...think about it..it defined the muscle car and every manufacturer chased after it and it was never beaten
Looking to purchase a good running classic car for under 20 thousand, hopefully here in California. Buick Rivs.63,64.65
i want it
Were any 59s made with fuel injection and the powerglide transmission?
No ... Power Glide was not an option with fuel injection
I've been a huge Vette fan for 60years now. But I still can't see any differences between a 59' and a 60'. Other than perhaps some engine differences. Does anyone know what visible differences there are?
While not technically a "muscle" car, it's fair to say that the "muscle" cars may not have existed without the Corvette. Since I'm on the subject, terms like "muscle" car and "pony" car often get used with a wide variety of meanings. Without much stretching, you could qualify almost any car built in the 50s, 60s, 70s, and even the 80s as a "muscle car".
To simplify things, my preferred definitions are as follows:
Pony car = sport compact, two door, four seat moderate or high output engine, small trunk, (mustangs, camaros, cudas, challengers, etc.)
Muscle car = intermediate size, two door, four seat, moderate or high output engine, mid size trunk (chevelles, torinos, roadrunners, chargers, etc.)
Bring on the arguments!
live wire...you are spot on..that is exactly what a muscle car is...might i add, muscle cars are American built and by about 1972 or so, the original muscle car era was over...like so many phrases in our language, "cool" sounding terms get appropriated to be used in inappropriate ways...from the mildly erroneous--a "muscle car Camaro" to the laughably preposterous--a "muscle car Porsche"....thanks for posting...
LOL, "muscle car Porsche". Thanks, John. Most consider '74 to be the last year for muscle, since '75 saw the introduction of the govt. mandated catalytic converter which plugged up with leaded gas, preventing it's use and therefore high compression engines were no longer viable. That's why so many models (Chevelle, GTO, Roadrunner, etc) ended production after '74. Thankfully, the pony cars survived this by focusing more on style, being smaller and not needing as much power, making it necessary to properly distinguish between "muscle" and "pony" cars.
The first American muscle car ever made was a 1955 Chrysler C-300. The last American muscle car ever made was a 1974 Pontiac Trans Am/Formula Firebird SD455
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283 Need I say more?
Sexy car most amazing car ever produced
X -cellence
Not big on the old Corvettes until the intro of the 327 cu. inch.
1960 a coupla guys brought em to france for the 24 hours of lemans and they schooled the europeans
In 1959, what else was there?? Anyone that thinks this didn't greatly influence future designs were ....just not thinking beyond their nose.
If you wanna make This Car a Muscle -Car; I'm with that!
What muffler is it sporting
Here's a Serious question for you, how did the 1959 corvette, with all that fiberglass and flash end up being over 500 pounds lighter than the C3 version of it?
Totally different chassis, body and running gear? possibly a little smaller too! of course it depends which C3 you are talking about too. the chassis on my old 75 was built like a 4x4 chassis, and there was some huge heavy steel plate between the gas tank and the bumper. The chassis of this 59 stayed until 62, the 63 was the first with IRS and really was a total redesign, the 68 on were rebodied, as in effect they had the same underpinnings as the 63
between the gas tank and the bumper, I think they redesigned it that year, something to do with pinto problem, I vaguely remember talking to a friend whos father sold their 74 over some worry over it back in the day instead upgrading to a 911 over it. , I dont know its just it strikes me as way too heavy for its design, like is it all just steel frame that's keeping the weight up? as most muscle cars seem to be way lighter than it, especially the nova
and I'm just wondering how do you remove that weight, as the less weight the less power it needs, and it seems like only the big block really can keep up performance wise with most muscle cars.
as the small block chevy camaros just had an edge on it weight wise.
as that's my hang up, it always seems like the street stocker muscle cars could trump it, and the sports cars could always beat it because it never had enough power or too much weight.
almost like its trying to be a midpoint of it all, and the only attempt I know at remedying this was the C2 grand sport, as it was super quick in a straight line but just couldnt handle compaired to the european rides at the few races it ran.
I pulled out some of my old Vette books, a c3 1969 ZL1 weighed in at 2900lbs from the factory, and did 12 second 115mph quarters- not sure how that compares to a Nova as I know very little about them!
I will say the vettes got heavier every year throughout the 70s , as the emissions killed performance, the car headed towards a luxury personal car, and had more and more extras.
The issue I have is the C1 C2 C3 C4 tags, how can you class a 6 cyl 53 with a completely different body styled 62 with a 327 V8? and then a 69 ZL1 against a crossfire 1982?
the information I found said 3,590, for like for the whole C3 line, like every source out there says the same thing, in the upper 3,000's as 2900 is actually pretty good, funny thing is the Tom Falconer books on the C3 Never mentioned the weight, as then its like 500 pounds lighter than most muscle cars of that era vs being like 300 pounds heavier than even a gigantic 1970 GTO, ruclips.net/video/hNv5Junnnpc/видео.html
which is why I was perplexed, like how is that heavier, it has two less seats, no trunk, and its not made out of steel and yet it weighs so much more?
plus with that in a recent video old car memories did a video on the turbo trans am, the 1980/1981 one, the unpopular bandit trans am from the second movie and the car came in at 3,800 pounds,
ruclips.net/video/zSMZ3oQQqB4/видео.html
which makes me wonder if not only do I need to make a book about the actual horsepower figures with a 100 octane gas which they had in the muscle car era up until 78 apparently
but also somehow find stock muscle cars and weight them to try and get this information down, as that's the big thing, power to weight, and its why cars like the early mustangs in shelby form really moved, sorry if your not a mustang car guy, but it was a very tiny little car
as that little 65/66 was considerably lighter than most, like 2,600 pounds, and with a high powered small block, the things a rocket. which makes me wonder how true that is then!
maybe this whole time someone weighed an 81, fully loaded, my least favorite corvette C3 bodystyle, which even showed in the sales too, as the 78 was actually one of their most popular years sales wise, and then put that against the whole line of cars, as I was going nuts trying to figure out why it weighs so much.
as every single manufacturer from louts to ferrari was all about that power to weight ratio, and with it being called americas sports car, I was trying to measure it up and it just didnt fit.
hell maybe with the cafe gas mileage standards, something that old car memories touched on with the turbo trans am thing, GM thought power was out the window, so they might as well turn it into, as you said a personal luxury car on the bones of what was a supercar in the era just to keep it alive.
kinda like what they did with trucks, as they used to be far more utilitarian and basic until they found a work around with this stuff, that if it weighed above 3600 pounds it was exempt from certain taxes and regulations which allowed them to turn them into luxury trucks, for more profit and less regulations
as leno mentioned here
ruclips.net/video/gceBgHjq_Oo/видео.html
hell maybe they lied to try and accomplish the same thing here, and just dumped everything they could into them? hence my perplexity at it in trying to put two and two together as I want to build one and well balance it to be something special.
and I just kept coming back to that, like where is the weight coming from, it just doesnt make any sense lol
The weight confusion problem has a lot to do with the ways weight was reported on the older cars. Think my old Nova show 2950 on the registration, the track scales showed nearly 3500lbs. @@kavinskysmith4094
nice car and presentation..ok all you vette purists out there--did the cove come in any color other than white?
John Becay yes, the coves on a black car are Sateen Silver
GM could have save Americans a lot of money on fuel if they had kept making cars fuel injected.
They had alot of problems with that early mechanical fuel injection setup. Many of them got switched back to dual 4 barrel carburetors
@@jeremythompson9122 I always heard that this mechanical fuel injection was fine, but the problem was, very few mechanics knew how to set them properly.
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Not a muscle car ??
It was really in a class of it's own and prior to the muscle car explosion of the mid-60's. It was really the only true American sports car. Remember, this was way before the "pony cars"(Mustang and Camero), which were much cheaper, could be bought with 6 cylinder engines and we're really not in the same league as the much classier, much more expen$ive , upscale Corvette, which was truly in a league of it's own. Even Ford's answer, the T-Bird was moving to a position of the "personal luxury car", a 4 seater, by that time.